(Reuters) BANGKOK, April 1- Aid groups arriving in the worst-hit areas of Myanmar said there was an urgent need for shelter, food and water after last week’s devastating quake which killed more than 2,000 people, including 50 preschoolers in one school. The 7.7 magnitude quake, which hit around lunchtime on Friday, was the strongest to […]
(Reuters) SEOUL, April 1- South Korea’s Constitutional Court, which is reviewing President Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment, will announce its decision on whether to remove him from office permanently or reinstate him on April 4, the court said in a statement on Tuesday. The court said the ruling will be delivered at 11 a.m. (0200 GMT) […]
(Reuters) TAIPEI, April 1 – China could find a “pretext” to stage new war games around Taiwan this year, coinciding with sensitive dates such as the anniversary in May of a year since President Lai Ching-te took office, a senior Taiwan coast guard official said. China, which views democratically-governed Taiwan as its own territory, regularly […]
(Reuters) KUALA LUMPUR, April 1 – A fire at a gas pipeline operated by Malaysia state energy firm Petronas injured 33 people on Tuesday on the outskirts of the capital Kuala Lumpur, authorities said. Six of the injured were sent to hospital, Selangor fire department director Wan Md Razali Wan Ismail told broadcaster Astro Awani. […]
BBC: Four more people have been pulled from rubble nearly 60 hours after a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar on Friday, killing at least 1,700 people in the South East Asian country. The survivors were rescued from a collapsed school building in the northern Sagaing region, from which a body was also recovered, Myanmar’s […]
BBC: At least five people have died and two are missing after an explosion at a mine in northern Spain, officials say. The blast happened at the Cerredo mine in Degaña, Asturias, some 450km (278 miles) north-west of Madrid around 09:30 (07:30 GMT). Local emergency services said they had been called about a “problem with […]
(Reuters) MANILA, March 31 – The bloodied body of Sheerah Escudero’s 18-year-old brother was found in 2017 with hands bound and head wrapped in packaging tape, a suspected victim of the Philippines’ then-President Rodrigo Duterte’s “war on drugs” that left thousands dead. The arrest of Duterte on March 11 on an International Criminal Court warrant over the drug war […]
(Reuters) TAIPEI, March 31 – Taiwan President Lai Ching-te met senior officials on Sunday night to discuss the possible impact of U.S. tariffs and receive an update on contingency plans, his office said on Monday. Trump administration officials, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, have said that much of the reciprocal U.S. tariff focus will be […]
(Reuters) BANGKOK, March 31 – Rescuers freed a woman from the ruins of a hotel in Myanmar, officials said on Monday, a glimmer of hope three days after a massive earthquake that killed around 2,000 as searchers in Myanmar and Thailand raced against time to find more survivors. The woman was pulled from the rubble of the […]
BBC: The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has said it is “outraged” at the deaths of eight medics killed on duty in Rafah in southern Gaza. The nine-person ambulance team came under heavy fire in al-Hashashin on 23 March, said the IFRC. Their bodies were retrieved on Sunday after access […]
(Reuters) SEOUL, March 30 – South Korea, China and Japan held their first economic dialogue in five years on Sunday, seeking to facilitate regional trade as the three Asian export powers brace from U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs. The countries’ three trade ministers agreed to “closely cooperate for a comprehensive and high-level” talks on a […]
(Reuters) BANGKOK, March 30 – Myanmar’s neighbours sent warships and aircraft laden with relief materials and rescue personnel on Sunday, as international aid gained steam after a massive earthquake ravaged much of the poor Southeast Asian nation. At least 1,600 people have been killed and 3,400 injured by Friday’s 7.7-magnitude quake, one of Myanmar’s strongest […]