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Bridge under construction collapses in central Indonesia, leaving 3 dead, 5 badly wounded

​Three workers were killed and five others sustained serious injuries after a bridge under construction collapsed in West Nusa Tenggara province of central Indonesia on Tuesday, an official of the local disaster management agency said.

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New Zealand military heads women's program in U.S.-led humanitarian mission

Nine New Zealand military personnel have joined a U.S. Navy hospital ship as part of the largest multilateral humanitarian mission to the Southeast Asia-Pacific region, the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) announced Thursday.

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Flash floods, landslides hit W. Indonesia, 5 killed, 1 missing

​Five people were killed, one went missing and five others sustained serious injury after flash floods and landslides hit West Java province in western Indonesia on Sunday night, a local disaster agency top official said on Monday.

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Tokyo's handling of Fukushima aftermath lacks responsibility

​In the story of one famous Chinese idiom, a man plugs his ears while trying to steal a bell, foolishly believing that by doing so others won't hear the sound of the bell when it is moved away.

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16 bodies recovered after flash floods hit tourist resort in Indonesia

​Rescuers have discovered 16 bodies and are searching for five missing others after flash floods struck a tourist resort in Deli Serdang district of North Sumatra province on Sunday, top official at local disaster agency said Tuesday.

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7 visitors killed, 14 missing as flash floods hit tourist resort in Indonesia

​Flash floods struck a tourist resort in Deli Serdang district of Indonesia's North Sumatra province, leaving 7 visitors dead and 14 others missing, an official at the local disaster agency said on Monday.

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China launches awareness campaign on oceanic disaster reduction

Tsunami evacuation drills were held Thursday in Haikou, capital of south China's island province of Hainan, beginning a week of awareness campaign on oceanic disaster prevention and reduction.

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Two killed, 34 injured in clashes between locals in eastern Indonesia

Two people were killed and 34 others wounded as local residents clashed in Indonesia's easternmost Papua province on Sunday, an official of the local disaster agency said on Sunday.

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Tropical Cyclone Winston forces Fiji to relocate 29 villages

​At least 29 villages in Fiji will be relocated in the aftermath of Tropical Cyclone Winston that ravaged the Pacific island nation two months ago, the government-owned Fiji Broadcasting Corporation (FBC) confirmed Thursday.

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Cambodian, U.S. forces hold joint military exercise

Cambodian and U.S. military personnel on Monday kicked off a joint military exercise dubbed "Angkor Sentinel 2016," aimed to strengthen bilateral military ties and cooperation.

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Japan faces stark, shocking realities as it marks 5th anni. of triple disasters

The nation came to a standstill at 2:46 p.m. on Friday for a minute's silence, exactly five years after a magnitude-9.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Japan's eastern seaboard triggering a killer tsunami that devoured swathes of land particularly in the northeast Tohoku region and combined with a nuclear calamity sparked in the aftermath, claimed nearly 16,000 innocent lives with 2,561 still unaccounted for and presumed dead.

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Red tape, rotating ministers delay reconstruction progress, says Rikuzentakata mayor

​Five years on since a devastating 9. 0-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami destroyed the city of Rikuzentakata in Iwate Prefecture in northeast Japan, the city has not yet recovered from the catastrophe as a large number of reconstruction projects have been delayed forcing residents to move out.

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Five years after: Epic manga highlights post-quake Tohoku region

A Tokyo cartoonist has created a manga epic inspired by his own experiences in the northeastern Tohoku region devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami to “share the feelings of disaster victims.”

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Blast kills 7, injures 6 in construction of power plant in Indonesia

An Explosion in the construction of a power plant in North Sumatra, Indonesia killed 7 workers and seriously wounded 6 others, a senior official from the disaster management agency said on Thursday.

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Nuke complex operator ordered to pay damages for voluntary evacuation from Fukushima

The Kyoto District Court ruled on Thursday that Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) is liable for damages arising from voluntary evacuation by residents in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

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Trauma, unresolved issue remain 21 years after Japan's Great Hanshin Earthquake

​Japan's Kobe and its surrounding areas marked on Sunday the 21st anniversary of the Great Hanshin Earthquake that claimed the lives of 6,434 people in 1995.

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6 killed in Indonesia's North Sumatra landslide

​Six people have been killed and five others injured in a landslide that occurred in Indonesia's North Sumatra province, a senior official at Indonesia's disaster mitigation agency said on Tuesday.