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MELBOURNE: An Australian state closed two beaches after dead fish and an unusual off-white foam washed ashore while surfers reported feeling unwell, officials said on Tuesday (March 18).
Here's a look at the news highlights from Asean countries in the Star-AseanPlus section for Tuesday (March 18, 2025)
PARIS (Reuters) - France tiptoed out of its strict coronavirus lockdown on Monday, allowing non-essential shops, factories and other businesses to reopen for the first time in eight weeks to help resuscitate the economy despite the risk of a second wave of infections.
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Twice world champion Tyler Wright will compete in the Abu Dhabi surfing event after seeking assurances from organisers that she will be in a "safe environment" as a gay athlete.
KARACHI (Reuters) - Attiq Ur Rehman is determined to follow his dream to become Pakistan's first professional surfer despite his father's concern for his future, a lack of equipment and the messy waves near Karachi.
Antara, a local news agency, reported that 36-year-old Giulia Manfrini had been surfing at around 9.30am when the freak accident occurred.
MEDAN: An Italian surfer died on Oct 18 after being impaled by a swordfish in the waters of West Sumatra in Indonesia.
An Italian surfer died after being impaled by a swordfish in the waters off West Sumatra.
TEAHUPO'O, Tahiti (Reuters) - Olympic surfers based in Tahiti will miss out on the spectacle of the Games' opening ceremony on Friday, but might have trumped their Paris-based peers with their accommodation in a freighter-cum-cruise ship serving as a floating athletes' village.
TEAHUPO'O, Tahiti (Reuters) - Reigning Olympic champion Carissa Moore said she was "stoked" just to be a surfer after the Paris Games venue in Tahiti showcased a perfect day of wave-riding to the world's biggest sports audience.
TAHITI, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- Teenage Chinese surfer Yang Siqi ended her novel journey in the Paris Olympics after losing to Caroline Marks of the United States in the women's round of 16 on Thursday.
TOKYO: A photogenic political scion, a military model-maker and a hardliner hoping to become Japan's first woman prime minister are among nine candidates vying to lead the world's fourth largest economy.
Maine-based Special Surfers celebrates 20 years of inclusive surfing for people with special needs.
LOS ANGELES, June 24 (Xinhua) -- Tamayo Perry, a well-known Hawaii professional surfer and lifeguard, died after a shark attack off the island of Oahu in Hawaii on Sunday, according to authorities and local media.
TEAHUPO'O, Tahiti (Reuters) - An Olympic surfing judge from Australia has been cut from the panel scoring the competition in Tahiti after a photo showing him posing with Australian surfer Ethan Ewing and the team manager circulated on social media.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -The three dead bodies found in Mexico's Baja California state are highly likely to be the American and two Australian tourists who went missing last week, a senior official from the region said on Saturday.
(Reuters) - New Zealand surfer Saffi Vette felt the full wrath of Teahupo'o when injured in a wipe-out in Tahiti, so there was some trepidation on her return to the punishing break last month for a training block in the lead-up to the Paris Olympics.
HALF MOON BAY, California (Reuters) - At the famous Mavericks Beach surf spot, big waves thundering into the California coastline on Thursday attracted surfers and spectators alike to the legendary break 25 miles south of San Francisco.
NAZARE, Portugal (Reuters) - Brazilian surfer Lucas Chianca won the 2023 Nazare Big Wave Challenge on Monday as 35-foot-plus waves hit the Portuguese coast with extreme weather wreaking havoc around Europe.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Olympic champion Carissa Moore hopes Teahupo'o, the infamous Tahitian break where this year's Paris Games will hold its surfing competition, does not live up to its reputation in what is expected to be her final competition.
