The first batch of emergency medical and rescue teams from China arrived in Manila on Wednesday night for a relief mission in central Philippines.
Philippine Presidential Spokesman Edwin Lacierda Tuesday assured that all the victims of typhoon Haiyan would be assisted by government, denying that some areas are being neglected as resources are being focused only in the Tacloban City and Leyte Province. This came after his president Aquino III's "But you did not die" provocative question to a
A leading Syrian Kurdish figure stressed Tuesday that the Kurds have no intention to establish an independent political entity, or Kurdish government, in the Kurdish-dominated areas in Syria.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Monday suggested that Japan continue to monitor freshwater and marine environment near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Parts of New Zealand could be exposed to tsunami that could be 50 percent bigger than previous estimates, government scientists warned Monday.
U.S. President Barack Obama has declared a major disaster in the U.S. state of Colorado, authorizing federal funds for flood victims and local recovery, the White House announced Sunday, after severe storms and floods left four people dead and over a thousand evacuated.
At least 108 people have been killed and several others injured in separate accidents triggered off by incessant rains across Pakistan since the beginning of this month, officials said Sunday evening.
Shipping and train services on the Qiongzhou Strait, connecting south China's Hainan and Guangdong provinces, have been suspended as Typhoon Utor approaches.
More than 2,000 soldiers and officers as well as two helicopters have been dispatched to the quake-hit areas.
A memorial service was held on Wednesday for 161 people who died or went missing in a landslide that hit a village in southwest China's Sichuan Province during the previous week.
For decades, millions of Chinese migrant workers from the poorer center and west of China have flooded to the coastal regions of the south and east to seek better pay. But the trend is increasingly reversing thanks to the country's shifting manufacturing footprints.
Australians continue to face health inequalities based on how wealthy they are and where they live, according to a healthcare report by the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Reform Council released Monday.
Military and civilian rescue teams are struggling to find survivors in Lushan and neighboring counties of southwest China's Sichuan Province, badly hit by Saturday's strong earthquake.
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and its partners in Cambodia are observing the milestone of 1,000 days to the end of 2015-- the target date for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), according to the agency's statement on Friday.
Beijing will strengthen its efforts to treat PM2.5 and slash the density of major air pollutants by 2 percent this year, the municipality's acting mayor said Tuesday.
Myanmar and the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) have vowed further cooperation in the latter's distribution of humanitarian aid to the country especially in conflict areas, the official daily New Light of Myanmar reported Tuesday.
The U.S. Department of Agricultural (USDA) Wednesday designated 597 counties in 14 states as primary natural disaster areas due to damage and losses caused by drought and heat.
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