Updated: At least 144 people killed when building collapses in Bohol island in central Philippines after earthquake measuring 7.2 magnitude hit area. News source: MCOT
Around 115 pilgrims were killed Sunday in a stampede in India’s Madhya Pradesh region. Some 50,000 pilgrims were attempting to visit the Ratangarh temple as part of an annual Hindu festival. Sources indicate that rumors spread through the crowd that the bridge over the Sindh River could collapse, which caused widespread panic. The rumor provoked […]
Yesterday, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a 34 member international economic organization founded in 1961 that traces its origins back to the World War II-era Marshall Plan, published results on the state of adult skills in 24 countries, most of them European. Compared to other countries surveyed, Japan ranks as one of […]
Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport will be closed for all commercial flights on specific times during October 5-October 9, to accommodate the arrival of many Heads of State to the APEC Summit in the island. All airlines are notified that the airport will be closed on Saturday, 5 October, from 10.00 hrs to 16.00 hrs. […]
A Cambodian court on Thursday sentenced a 69-year-old German man to seven years in prison for sexually abusing two 13-year-old boys, a lawyer said. Hans Gandner, who was arrested in April, was also ordered by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court to pay a fine of $1,000 and a total of $1,250 in compensation to the […]
An Indian court Friday sentenced to death four men for the December gang rape and murder of a young New Delhi woman, ordering them to the gallows for a brutal attack that riveted India, where it became a symbol of the rampant mistreatment of women and the government’s inability to deal with crime. Read more: […]
Japan’s nuclear watchdog, the Nuclear Regulation Authority, yesterday said the revealed leaking of an estimated 300 metric tons of radioactive water at the damaged Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant was a “serious incident”, level three on the seven-part international scale. Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), who run the plant, announced the leak last week and the […]
The Thai Embassy in Malaysia has alerted immigration authorities in both countries after hundreds of visa stamps went missing, saying that they could be used for illegal purposes, Thai Foreign Ministry deputy spokesman Jakkrit Srivali said Thursday. Thai immigration authorities have found a total of nine suspicious entries by foreigners suspected of using the stolen […]
