The Walt Disney Company has denied it planned to build a Disneyland in Laos, Khaosod reported. “We continually look for ways to grow our business and as part of that process we have conversations with many different entities,” a US-based company representative said in an email to the website Khaosod. Read more: The Nation
January began with a heartwarming viral story from Japan about a train line that has been kept in service for just one student until she graduates from high school. The story started in Japan in December 2015 when some Japanese Twitter users noticed there was a train stop in rural and remote Hokkaido that served […]
As voting ended in the Taiwanese presidential election Saturday, vote counts suggested that leader of the Democratic Progressive Party Tsai Ing-Wen has won the election. The official results of the election are yet to be disclosed. Tsai is to become the first female president ever elected in Taiwan, and the second ever president from the […]
Daesh (also known as ISIL or Islamic State) is behind the blasts that shook the Indonesian capital on Thursday, as the terrorist group spreads into Southeast Asia, the Jakarta police chief said Thursday, confirming earlier concerns. MOSCOW (Sputnik) — A series of blasts hit the Indonesian capital of Jakarta on Thursday morning, leading to multiple […]
Two men who posted their selfies on social media with Dubai’s 63-storey The Address hotel on fire in the background were arrested — and then released, according to WAM, the United Arab Emirates official news agency. According to WAM: The Attorney General said that the Public Prosecution in Dubai has decided to release the two […]
A volcanic island located in the Pacific Ocean, far to the south of the Japanese main islands, has captured the attention of Japanese social media users for the past two years. Nishinoshima (西之島) is located in the Ogasawara Islands, nearly 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo. The island is actually the top of a massive undersea […]
A huge explosion hit central square of Istanbul, Dogan news agency reports. At least 10 people were killed and 15 injured, a statement from the Istanbul governor’s office said. According to the Turkish TV channels’ reports many people were injured in the explosion. Turkish media reports earlier said at least eight people were killed. Read […]
North Korea has announced Wednesday that they have successfully tested a hydrogen bomb. CNN Video reported that the tests registered as seismic activity; it had a magnitude of 5.1. South Korean authorities have doubts over whether the bomb test actually took place as claimed. A Seoul analyst said that it could have been a boosted-fission […]
