A 495-page report released Monday into Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 revealed a third party might have interfered, causing the jetliner to be flown off its intended course the night it disappeared four years ago. Fight 370 Safety Investigation team leader Kok Soo Chon said investigators reached that conclusion based on a series of flight simulator […]
Flooding triggered by annual monsoon rains across Myanmar has killed 11 people and made 119,000 homeless, with relief workers struggling to find boats to deliver aid to inundated towns and villages and warning about food shortfalls, aid workers and government officials said on Monday. Seasonal rains that have also hit Myanmar’s Southeast Asian neighbors Laos, […]
BANGKOK, 30th June 2018 (NNT) – Local tour guides are leading around 140 Thai tourists away from a volcano on an island in Indonesia hit by a 6.4-magnitude earthquake on Sunday. Thai officers have travelled to receive them at the base of the Sembalun Lawang mountain. Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Busadi Santiphithak […]
A man was killed and two others were injured as their six-wheeled truck delivering donated supplies from Thailand plunged into a river Sunday on the way to help flood victims in Attapeu, Laos. ABC Laos News reported that the truck fell from a bridge into an abyss and then the Xe-Namnoy River in Paksong, Champasak […]
Some 500 Thais and foreigners were stranded on an active volcano on Indonesia’s Lombok island, which was hit by a powerful earthquake on Sunday morning. The shallow 6.4magnitude quake that jolted the island triggered land and rockslides, preventing the tourists from going down the mountain. Full story: The Nation By The Nation
The ruling Cambodian People’s Party claimed victory in a general election Sunday, capturing nearly all 125 seats in a one-sided contest as voters, many under threat of losing government services, ratified an outcome decided in November when Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government dissolved the main opposition party. Unconfirmed preliminary results indicated that the ruling CPP […]
A strong earthquake has hit a region of the densely-populated Lombok island in Indonesia, home to over 3 million. A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake has hit the Lombok region in Indonesia, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. The epicenter of the quake was reportedly some […]
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday signed an autonomy law promising wider self-rule for Muslims in the south, his spokesman said. Under the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL), four million Muslim Filipinos will be allowed to form an elected parliament and administration in Islamic-majority areas of southern Mindanao and nearby islands, where five decades of insurgency […]
