Typhoon Chaba has caused advisories for more than 30,000 people on the island of Tsushima in Nagasaki Prefecture to evacuate their homes as it sweeps through the area causing wave surges, powerful gusts and torrential rain, local media said Wednesday.
At least 33 people are missing in landslides triggered by rainstorms in two villages in the eastern province of Zhejiang, local governments said Thursday.
Death toll of flashfloods and landslides in West Java province of Indonesia rose to 23 with 15 people missing and 32 others injured, local disaster agency official said on Wednesday.
Colored lights decorated dragon swam among crowds in a shrine, a young woman in goddess costume offered incenses to the moon... This is the unique way that people in Nakhon Sawan of Thailand celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival on Thursday night.
Firefighters were battling a huge blaze engulfing a fruit market in Hong Kong on Sunday afternoon.
The Chinese embassy in Kyrgyzstan was attacked Tuesday morning by a suicide car bomber, in which the lone assailant was killed and five others were wounded besides serious material damage.
A blast occurred near a wedding hall in Sahinbey District of southeastern Turkish province of Gaziantep on Saturday night, killing at least 22 people and injuring 94 others, Gaziantep Governor's Office confirmed early Sunday.
Having built its regional manufacturing center in Malaysia, the China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC) is also planning to expand its operations at the facility with an eye to exploring the ASEAN market.
A student at Taiwan University stood trial at the Taipei District Court on Tuesday for allegedly abusing and killing a stray cat last year.
The Taipei Women's Rescue Foundation led a rally on Monday urging the Japanese government to apologize for the Taiwanese women who were forced into sex slavery during World War II.
A recent plan on lifting midnight curfew in Vietnam's capital Hanoi in a bid to lure more tourists has brought about both applauds and concerns among local residents.
Health officials in Florida said Friday there is a "high likelihood" that the state has the first cases of local Zika virus transmission by mosquitoes in the continental United States.
The second young man who participated in the killing of a priest in a church earlier this week was known to intelligence services and police had had their eye on him for days ahead of the attack, local media reported on Thursday.
The U.S. Embassy in Yangon, the largest city of Myanmar, apologized to neighbors and others in local areas for the inconvenience caused by its unannounced security drill on Sunday evening, the embassy said via its Facebook account on Monday.
A leader from India's ruling Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) resigned on Monday from the parliament, officials said.
Vietnamese domestic price of gold has been fluctuating over the past three days due to psychological effects among investors following exit of Britain from the European Union (Brexit).
Two civilians and a suicide bomber were killed and 17 people wounded after the bomber hit the vehicle of a local leader in eastern Afghanistan's Nangarhar province, on Saturday, a provincial source said.
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