South Korean President Park Geun-hye said on Thursday the move to deploy a THAAD missile defence system was “inevitable” because of a growing threat from DPRK and that division in the South over its deployment is what Pyongyang seeks.
Authorities from the mainland and Hong Kong Special Administration Region (SAR) agreed to consultations on enhancing a two-way reporting mechanism launched in 2000.
The Minami-Soma Mayor has lamented to visiting Taiwanese students how the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe tore his city apart, with 27,000 residents still unable to return to their homes.
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.
A paradise with sandy white beaches where pure-minded people lived. That's how Yoo Deok Moon describes Bamseom, once his island home in the middle of the Han River running through central Seoul.
About 120 residents reached evacuation site located in northwest of a volcano which erupted at around 10: 00 a.m. local time Friday in Kuchinoerabu island off Kagoshima Prefecture in southwest Japan, said top spokesman of the Japanese government.
Thousands of residents of Nigerien towns of Bosso and Diffa have fled from their homes after five days of deadly attacks carried out by the Boko Haram islamist sect, official sources said Tuesday.
The first batch of tickets for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games will be made available to Brazilian residents in March, organizers said on Thursday.
A total of 49 percent of all residents of the Austrian capital of Vienna have an immigrant background, meaning they were either born abroad themselves or have at least one parent who was, new study results have shown.
Overseas-born Australian residents can expect to live longer than those born in Australia, according to a new research released Thursday.
The population of permanent residents in Beijing exceeded 21 million by the end of 2013, the municipal bureau of statistics said Wednesday.
The death toll in the epic flooding in the U.S. state of Colorado climbed to seven on Monday, as the biggest rescue operation in the country since the 2005 Hurricane Katrina continued.
Online shopping is no longer exclusively for city dwellers, as residents of smaller locales are now spending more money buying goods on the Internet.
The seat, or center of an explosion that blew off a fertilizer plant and almost razed the U.S. town of West had been located, a U.S. Official said Sunday. Assistant Texas fire marshal Kelly Kistner told a press conference here that the locationing of the center of the explosion is important to the investigation of the the blast.
Two palliative care patients in a nursing home have died due to flu outbreak in Australia's North Queensland, local media reported on Thursday.
After China's released its official Gini coefficient last week, the capital, Beijing says it will release its own Gini coefficient for 2012 soon - the first city in the country, to do so.
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