Category: Asia

Japan To Sack Nuclear Officials

Japan will sack three top energy officials over their handling of the Fukushima atomic disaster and scandals that have

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6.0 Quake Hits Sumatra, No Tsunami

JAKARTA, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- An undersea earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale struck off Sumatra Island earlier

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Islam Defence Threatens Greenpeace

Indonesia’s notorious Islamic Defenders Front have a new target — international nongovernmental organization Greenpeace, which has been waging a

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Record High Radiation At Fukushima

The company that owns Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant says it has detected record-high radiation on site. Almost

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Philippine Death Toll Rises To 70

MANILA (AFP) – The combined death toll from Tropical Storm Nock-ten and Typhoon Muifa in the Philippines has risen

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Russia To Lose 33% Of Permafrost

..Russia's vast permafrost areas may shrink by a third by the middle of the century due to global warming,

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Strong Quake Shakes Fukushima

TOKYO (AFP) – A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck off northeast Japan's Fukushima region, home to a crippled nuclear power

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Philippines Storm Death Toll Rises

MANILA (AFP) – The death toll in the Philippines from tropical storm Nock-ten climbed to 41 on Friday, as

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Floods Shift S.Korean Land Mines

SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea's military warned Thursday that buried land mines may have slid down mountains eroded

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Storm Kills 20 In The Philippines

MANILA (AFP) – A tropical storm killed at least 20 people in the Philippines as it dumped enormous amounts

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