News Analysis: Nepal disaster prompts India, Pakistan to call for regional cooperation in disaster management By
China has pledged to continue to help Nepal in its post-earthquake reconstruction as the Himalayan country struggles to get back to normal more than two weeks after the devastating quake.
Nepalese ambassador to India has emphasized that his country is now moving into the phase of rehabilitation after nearly completing search and rescue operation, local media reported Tuesday.
As the Nepalese people grapple with an intensive rescue effort in the aftermath of Saturday's 7.9-magnitude earthquake, hundreds of Chinese are working side by side with them.
China is mobilizing all kinds of resources from rescue teams to relief supplies to the earthquake-hit Tibet Autonomous Region and the neighboring Nepal on the other side of the world's highest mountain.
The death toll in Sunday's ferry disaster in Bangladesh's northwestern Manikganj district has risen to 76 with the recovery of seven more bodies, said a police official on Thursday.
The Sri Lanka Air Force on Saturday carried out a rescue mission to save a Chinese tourist who fell off World's End in Nuwera Eliya, in the island's Central Province, an Air Force official said.
By Friday morning, rescuers have rescued three passengers on board a tug boat that sank on the Yangtze River in east China's Jiangsu Province on Thursday, and are still searching for more than 20 missing.
Twelve workers trapped Tuesday in a tunnel collapse in Vietnam's central highlands Lam Dong province are alive and in good health condition, and rescue operation is still underway, local media reported Wednesday.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday denounced the killing of an American hostage in a second failed rescue operation in Yemen, vowing to bring the killers to justice.
Southeast Asian countries agreed here on Thursday to increase mutual trust with China to enhance maritime security and resolve disputes by peaceful means without resorting to threat or use of force.
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has directed the government to fully support rescue efforts as around 300 people are feared dead from a landslide in central Sri Lanka, an official said here on Wednesday.
Eight people were confirmed dead and 17 others remained missing after a landslide destroyed a village in southwest China's Guizhou Province on Wednesday night.
An apartment in Pyongyang, capital city of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), collapsed on Tuesday during construction, causing serious casualties, the official news agency KCNA said Sunday.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye said Monday that the country's coast guard will be disbanded on its failure to appropriately respond to the ferry sinking disaster.
Fears that the South Korean ferry sinking accident could become one of the country's worst maritime disasters in two decades have been rising as rescue operations are protracted.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Sunday asked Malaysia to continue search for a missing Malaysia Airlines passenger jet with 239 people on board.
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