New Zealand rescue workers are evacuating scores of tourists and residents from the town hardest hit by a series of powerful earthquakes.
The New Zealand military on Tuesday accepted outside offers of help in its relief operations in the wake of Monday's deadly earthquake in the South Island.
History has proven that Taiping Island in the South China Sea is an island not a “rock,” but the flawed verdict reached by the arbitral tribunal on July 12 has flown in the face of both objective historical reality and the international law by negating its status as an island. This conclusion has brought the ruling notoriety.
Since mid-1950s, the Philippines and South Vietnam started their encroachment of the Nansha Islands. In 1956, Tomas Cloma, a Filipino adventurer announced his discovery of a group of islands in the Nansha waters, and renamed them "Freedomland".
Malaysia is waiting for the verification of the two newly discovered debris in Mozambique and Reunion Island, officials said Monday, as the country marks the two-year anniversary of the missing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
After 20 months of frantic searching, missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 could be found in a matter of months after the hunt switched to an area identified by a British Boeing 777 captain.
Six people were dead while two others were seriously injured in s forest fire in Java Island of Indonesia on Sunday, a senior official said Monday.
The South Korean government made a final decision Wednesday to salvage the Sewol ferry from the waters off Jindo Island in the country's southwest coast, with field works slated to kick off as early as in September.
Pacific Island nations have secured a 90 million U.S. dollar tuna deal with the United States, the Pacific Island Forum fisheries Agency (FFA) said.
Despite Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's government's claiming victory over illegal migrants arriving by boat to Australia, opposition to the coalition's hardline refugee policies is coalescing around human rights concerns which was expressed Thursday night at a candlelight vigil in Sydney.
Phu Quoc Island, a tourist resort in southern Vietnamese province of Kien Giang, has been connected with the national power grid after installation of an undersea cable was completed last Saturday, Vietnam News daily reported Tuesday.
After the fifth chartered plane departed from the airport of Jeju Island with 250 passengers at 10: 43 p.m. local time, around 1,100 passengers stranded in the cruise liner Henna have left Jeju Island to Beijing, according to the Chinese Consulate General in Jeju Island.
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