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JUNE 8 (Reuters) — Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) fear caused face mask sales surge in South Korea, as a sixth person died and tally of MERS rose to 87. South Korean Health Ministry announced 23 new infections, bringing the total to 87. South Korea now has the second highest number of infections in the world after Saudi Arabia, according to data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Fears over MERS led […]
JUNE 7 (CCTV/Reuters) — The death toll from the sinking of a Chinese cruise ship on the Yangtze River during freak weather had climbed to 431 by 11:00 on Sunday, with 11 still unaccounted for, according to the rescue headquarters in Jianli, central China’s Hubei Province. “According to the latest statistics, by 11:00 on June 7 (Sunday), 431 bodies of the victims had been retrieved; there are 14 survivors, and 11 still remained missing. Relative […]
More than 130 people are trapped on Malaysia’s Mount Kinabalu following a 6.0-magnitude earthquake that rocked parts of the Malaysian state of Sabah on Friday (June 5). Foreign and domestic hikers flock to Sabah to climb the 4,095-metre (13,435 feet) mountain, where at least 137 people were trapped, the state’s fire and rescue department told Reuters. So far 52 climbers had made it down safely, the public relations officer for Sabah Fire and Rescue department, […]
Workers continued to move a Chinese cruise ship which capsized during a storm in the Yangtze River on Saturday (June 6) morning as the death toll jumped to 396. Only 14 survivors, one of them the captain, have been found after the ship carrying 456 passengers and crew, overturned in a freak tornado on Monday (June 1) night. Rescuers are searching the cabins of the ship, which was righted on Friday, looking for more bodies, the […]
JUNE 5 (Reuters) — South Korean President Park Geun-hye visited the National Medical Center in Seoul on Friday (June 5) where Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) patients are being hospitalized. The government has promised to do everything it can to end the outbreak which began in South Korea last month when an infected South Korean man brought it back from a business trip to the Middle East. Park met medical workers who wore personal protected […]
JUNE 5 (Reuters) — Thailand’s prime minister said on Friday (June 5) his government was seriously committed to tackling the illicit trade in people and vowed no letup in its crackdown, announcing June 5 as a “national anti-human trafficking day”. The United States last year downgraded Thailand to its “Tier 3” list of worst offenders – alongside the likes of Iran and North Korea – in its annual ranking of countries by their counter-trafficking efforts. […]
The death toll from a Chinese cruise ship that capsized on the Yangtze River has climbed to 97, state media said on Friday, as authorities began righting the vessel and said there was no chance of finding anyone else alive. The rescue mission has become an operation to recover hundreds of bodies from the ship, which was carrying 456 people when it overturned in a freak tornado on Monday night. Only 14 survivors have been […]
JUNE 4 (Reuters) — China said on Wednesday (June 3) that it was shocked by Philippine President Benigno Aquino’s comparison between Chinese activities in the South China Sea and Nazi Germany’s expansionism, calling it “absurd” and “unreasonable”. Aquino, who is expected to agree beefed up defense ties with Japan when he meets Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo on Thursday (June 4), also urged Beijing to rethink its land reclamation projects in the disputed waters. […]
JUNE 4 (Reuters) — Rescuers on Thursday (June 4) cut holes into the upturned hull of the Eastern Star which capsized on China’s Yangtze River in an attempt to recover victims still within its bowels, state media showed. Divers face difficulties such as cabin doors blocked by tables and beds. There is also the fear that rashly cutting holes in the hull could burst air pockets keeping people alive. The death toll from the accident […]
JUNE 3 (Reuters) — 29 people have been found and 14 are confirmed dead as the rescue operation is underway after a passenger ship carrying 456 people capsized in China’s Yangtze River, navigation authorities said Wednesday. Rescuers said there could be more survivors in the overturned wreckage, but strong winds and heavy rain are hampering rescue efforts. More than 420 people are still missing. The on-site rescue headquarters proposed two plans to search for more […]
JUNE 2 (Reuters) — Philippines President Benigno S. Aquino III arrived at Tokyo’s Haneda International Airport on Tuesday (June 2), starting a four-day trip to bolster the two nations’ security ties. Aquino’s visit is the latest move by the president and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to strengthen security ties between the two nations as Southeast Asian nations face China’s growing naval ambitions. China claims sovereignty over most of the South China Sea, through which […]
JUNE 1 (Reuters) — President Barack Obama said on Monday (June 1) that land reclamation projects in the South China Sea are unproductive and called for an end to aggressive action in the region. “We think that land reclamation, aggressive actions by any party in that area are counterproductive,” Obama said in a town-hall discussion at the White House with a group of young leaders from Southeast Asian nations. “China is going to be successful. […]
