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Tue, September 25, 2018 | 16:24

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At least 100 missing in Laos after hydropower dam collapse [PHOTOS]

The accident happened at a dam in southeastern Attapeu province late Monday, releasing five billion cubic meters of water with "several human lives claimed, and several hundreds of people missing," Laos News Agency said.

Asia Pacific | 2018-07-24 17:08

Chinese man arrested for filming couples in love hotels and selling footage online

A man has been arrested in southwest China on suspicion of installing webcams in hotels to film couples having sex and then selling the footage online, according to local media reports. Police started looking for the peeping Tom after a newly-wed couple who checked into a love hotel in Sichuan in April spotted one of the cameras, the Chengdu Business Daily reported on Saturda...

Asia Pacific | 2018-07-20 19:57

Abe visiting flood-hit western Japan as deaths reach 176

Japan's government said 176 people have been confirmed dead after last week's heavy rains in western Japan, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited a hard-hit city. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Abe on Wednesday would visit an evacuation center in Kurashiki, a city where a river broke through an embankment and swept through residential areas, killing more than 40 p...

Asia Pacific | 2018-07-11 16:09

Hong Kong stocks dive as US threatens additional tariffs

Hong Kong stocks plunged more than two percent on opening Wednesday after the U.S. threatened tariffs on another $200 billion of Chinese imports, ramping up a potentially damaging trade war.

Asia Pacific | 2018-07-11 10:45

US-China trade war heating up

All 12 boys and coach rescued from Thai cave

All 12 boys and their coach who became trapped in a flooded Thai cave more than a fortnight ago have been rescued, the Navy SEALs announced on Tuesday, completing an astonishing against-the-odds rescue mission that has captivated the world. The Thai SEALs and elite foreign divers extracted the final batch of four boys, plus the 25-year-old coach, on Tuesday afternoon via a pe...

Asia Pacific | 2018-07-10 22:55

A new twist in the South China Sea Arbitration: The Chinese Society of International Law's Critical Study

On Monday 14 May 2018, the Chinese Journal of International Law, an Oxford University Press journal, published an extraordinary 500 page “Critical Study” of the Awards on jurisdiction and the merits in the South China Sea..

Asia Pacific | 2018-07-10 16:18

Cambodia's 2018 economy shows signs of firmer growth

Cambodians have been vigorously developing the nation further with the highest determination. Remarkable economic achievements are of factors that strengthen hand of the Cambodian People’s Party on the threshold of the National Assembly Elections.

Asia Pacific | 2018-07-10 16:17

At least 112 killed, dozens missing in Japan's worst flood [PHOTOS]

"We cannot take baths, the toilet doesn't work and our food stockpile is running low," said Yumeko Matsui, whose home in the city of Mihara, in Hiroshima prefecture, has been without water since Saturday. "Bottled water and bottled tea are all gone from convenience stores and other shops," the 23-year-old nursery school worker said at an emergency water supply station. Some 1...

Asia Pacific | 2018-07-09 19:51

4 rescued from Thai cave; 9 remain inside [PHOTOS]

Expert divers Sunday rescued four of 12 boys from a flooded cave in northern Thailand where they were trapped with their soccer coach for more than two weeks, as a dangerous and complicated plan unfolded amid heavy rain and the threat of rising water underground. Eight of boys and the coach remained inside the Tham Luang Nang Non cave complex as authorities paused the interna...

Asia Pacific | 2018-07-09 10:27

At least 27 killed, 47 missing as torrential rain pounds Japan [PHOTOS]

At least 47 people were missing and five were in a critical condition as torrential rain that has killed 27 people pounds western and central Japan, public broadcaster NHK said on Saturday, with more than 1.6 million people evacuated from their homes. Japan's Meteorological Agency issued special weather warnings across four prefectures in the west of Japan's main island of Ho...

Asia Pacific | 2018-07-07 17:17

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