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YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — Myanmar was struck by a magnitude 6.9 quake on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey reported, with tremors felt around the region, including in neighbouring India and China. The quake, which was 134 kilometres (214 miles) deep, hit some 396 kilometres north northwest of the capital Naypyidaw, according to the USGS. Much of Myanmar’s outlying provinces have poor communications infrastructure, including the area where the earthquake hit. However there were no […]
by Park Chan-Kyong SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Koreans voted Wednesday in legislative elections clouded by North Korean nuclear threats and the multiple challenges facing Asia’s fourth-largest economy, as President Park Geun-Hye enters the final stretch of her term in office. Political power in South Korea is firmly concentrated in the presidency and elections to the single-chamber national assembly are traditionally dominated by local issues. Rising unemployment, plunging exports and worryingly high levels of […]
INSTABUL, Turkey (AFP ) — A Turkish town on the Syrian border was on Wednesday hit by new rocket fire from Syria, a day after two people were killed by shelling from a jihadist-controlled area, reports said. Kilis, which lies just a few kilometres from the border with Syria, has been hit by fire from Katyusha-type rockets every day this week amid growing concern over its vulnerability. The latest rocket fire caused no injuries with the projectiles falling […]
MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Foreign Affairs announced that more than 12, 000 overseas Filipinos voted in the first day of the overseas absentee voting last April 9, with the Hong Kong polls having the largest voter turnout. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by Lovely Ann Cruz) https://youtu.be/6OQUtrFk3hc
MULTAN,Pakistan (AFP) — At least 19 people including two children were killed in a collision between a passenger bus and a truck in Pakistan early on Wednesday, officials said. The accident took place near the town of Theekriwala in Punjab province due to “speeding and reckless driving”, senior police official Afzaal Ahmed Khosa told AFP. “Nineteen passengers including two women and two children were killed,” Khosa said. Dr Naeem Hashmi, who works at the Allied […]
IN his maiden foreign visit as Secretary of Foreign Affairs Jose Rene D. Almendras paid a courtesy call to newly-appointed Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Nguyen Xuan Phuc in the early evening of April 11 at the Prime Minister’s Office in central Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. The call on PM Phuc was followed by a call on Vet Nam’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Pham Binh Minh at […]
Reuters – North Korea’s state-run television KRT on Tuesday (April 12) released still photographs of soldiers conducting a live-fire drill at night time. KRT said the soldiers trained for a possible surprise landing of an enemy while firing artilleries towards the sea. KRT, however, did not specify the date or the location of the drill. North Korean Director of the General Political Bureau of the Korean People’s Army, Hwang Pyong So, Director of the General […]
HANI, DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – A vehicle laden with explosives rammed into a gendarmerie base in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast late on Monday (April 11), killing one soldier and wounding 47 others, the military said on Tuesday (April 12). Thirty-nine soldiers and eight civilians were wounded in the attack in the town of Hani, north of the provincial capital of Diyarbakir, according to a written statement. About 20 ambulances rushed to the scene, the military […]
Reuters – A fire broke out at a garment factory near Mumbai in India’s western Maharashtra state on Tuesday (April 12). Around 100 workers were feared trapped inside. The fire broke out early morning on the ground floor of the factory at Bhiwandi, about 35 kilometres from Mumbai. Nine fire trucks and six water tankers were rushed to the site to douse the flames. Some workers took refuge on the roof of the building and […]
KOLLAM, India (AFP) — Five men wanted over a massive explosion during a banned fireworks display that killed more than 100 people in southern Indian surrendered to police early Tuesday, a senior officer said. The blast ripped through concrete buildings at a Hindu temple complex in Kerala state where thousands had gathered on Saturday night to watch the display. Police had been hunting for the five who went missing after the disaster and initial charges […]
HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – The effort to rid the world of nuclear weapons has been made more complex by North Korea’s repeated provocations said Japanese Foreign Minister, Fumio Kishida, during a news conference on Monday (April 11) The meeting of Group of Seven most industrial nations (G7) Foreign ministers closed on Monday in the city of Hiroshima with a call for nations to meet the conditions for a nuclear free world. Hiroshima is one of […]
HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – US Secretary of State, John Kerry, called for renewed efforts to end nuclear threats on Monday (April 11) after becoming the first U.S. secretary of state to pay respects at Hiroshima’s memorial to victims of the 1945 U.S. nuclear attack. Kerry described the museum as a “gut-wrenching” reminder of the need to work for a world free of nuclear weapons. “We came here and drew from the experience of touring in […]
