South Korea and the United States kicked off an 11-day joint naval exercise along the southern coast of the Korean Peninsula on Monday to enhance their combined readiness to conduct search and rescue operations and other underwater missions, the Navy said.
The death toll of a 6.7-magnitude quake that hit south Taiwan early Saturday has risen to 40 and 107 people remain missing, rescuers said Tuesday.
Four miners were rescued from a collapsed mine in east China's Shandong Province on Friday night after 36 days trapped underground.
China's ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua said during a public speech on Tuesday in Tokyo that the development of artificial islands in the South China Sea are for civic purposes that could benefit the international community.
A total of 91 people went missing by 6 a.m.on Dec.21, after a landslide buried 33 buildings in an industrial park in Shenzhen city of south China's Guangdong Province on Sunday, according to local authorities.
Rescue and relief work are still under way as the death toll from an east China landslide has risen to 21, with 16 people still missing, as of Sunday night.
A four-storeyed factory producing plastic bags collapsed on Wednesday evening, killing at least 23 labourers and trapping dozens of workers under the rubble at the Sundar Industrial Estate near Lahore.
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif flew into a mountainous region in the country's northwest on Tuesday to review rescue and relief efforts, a day after a powerful earthquake killed over 228 people and displaced thousands others.
China-Malaysia joint military exercise maritime subjects in full swing , Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- The maritime subjects of the China-Malaysia joint military exercise was carried out Sunday in full swing in the designated waters in the Strait of Malacca.
Vietnamese and Indian Coast Guards held their first search and rescue drill off the coast of southern Ba Ria - Vung Tau province, Vietnam News Agency reported Monday.
Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong has promised best medical treatment for people injured in massive warehouse explosions in Tianjin and wished them early recovery during her visit to hospitals on late Thursday night.
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At least 19 people died Wednesday in a shipwreck on Nile River in Cairo, capital of Egypt, according to the statement from the Egyptian Interior Ministry.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and other senior Communist Party of China (CPC) leaders have called on rescuers to "take all possible measures" to save lives from the cruiser ship that capsized on the Yangtze River Monday night.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has called for "all-out efforts" and an "overnight battle" to save lives following a fatal cruise ship accident on the Yangtze River late Monday night.
Ten people have been rescued as of Tuesday morning as rescuers are battling strong winds and downpour to hunt for the others on a passenger ship carrying 458 people that had sank overnight in China's Yangtze River.
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