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Strong earthquake hits Indonesia; no casualties

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — A strong and shallow undersea earthquake hit parts of Indonesia’s Sumatra island on Sunday, causing panic but there were no immediate reports...

Pyongyang building collapse leaves many casualties

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean officials offered a rare public apology for the collapse of an apartment building under construction in Pyongyang, which a South...

Turkish miner who survived says company to blame

SAVASTEPE, Turkey — Miner Erdal Bicak believes he knows why so many of his colleagues died in Turkey’s worst mining disaster: company negligence. And he knows...

DOST, DENR launch scientific information facility for Yolanda relief efforts

International think tank fellow lauds FAiTH, the foreign aid transparency website

A senior fellow of the Center for Global Development (CGD), a Washington-based non-profit think tank, recently commended the Philippines’ online Foreign Aid Transparency Hub, or FAiTH....

Sagada villagers search, dismantle NPA camps

  MANILA — Irked at the atrocities committed by New People’s Army (NPA) fighters against civilians, Sagada villagers in the Mountain Province on Friday conducted their...

Lao defense chief, 4 others killed in plane crash

BANGKOK — A military plane carrying senior Lao government officials crashed Saturday in a wooded area as it approached an airport in the country’s northeast, killing...

Army to fete firefighting personnel injured in Fort Bonifacio fire, explosion

MANILA — The Philippine Army (PA) will honor the members of the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) and fire volunteers who were injured during the Explosive...

Vietnam clamps down on anti-China protests

Anti-China rioting turns deadly in Vietnam; Taiwanese, Chinese flee http://t.co/eagb5eBa8L pic.twitter.com/zaQLBl8iUN — Top Space (@tuanmu01) May 16, 2014   HANOI — Vietnamese authorities forcibly broke up...