While we know the GST bill is and what it entails, it is surprising to see that the role of the GST Council is still a...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held an emergency ministerial meeting and sent the minister in charge of disaster management to affected areas. The government also set up...
The storm, which the government said could be the strongest to hit Tokyo, Japan since 1958. It brought record-breaking rainfall in many areas, including the popular...
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A Swiss foundation works with the Moken people – sea nomads who are among the few remaining hunter-gatherers in southeast Asia – to recycle piles of waste...
TOKYO – Japanese Emperor Akihito announced his abdication at a palace ceremony Tuesday in his final address, as the nation embraced the end of his reign...
CHRISTCHURCH – At least 49 Muslims were shot to death at two mosques during midday prayers Friday — most if not all of them gunned down...
SUMATRA – Desperately needed aid flowed into a stretch of Indonesia’s tsunami-struck coastline Tuesday, but humanitarian workers warned that clean water and medicine supplies were...
SUMATRA – Dozens of filled body bags were hauled away from buildings flattened by Indonesia’s volcano-triggered tsunami Monday, as the death toll climbed to 373...
SUMATRA – A tsunami has left at least 222 people dead and hundreds more injured after slamming without warning into beaches around Indonesia’s Sunda Strait,...
WASHINGTON D.C. – Flags flew at half-staff in Washington Saturday as Americans prepared for a week of solemn tributes to George H.W. Bush, in his...
TANJUNG, Indonesia – The Indonesian island of Lombok was shaken by a third big earthquake in little more than a week Thursday as the official death...
HIROSHIMA, Japan – Searches continued Sunday night for victims of heavy rainfall that hammered southern Japan for the third straight day, as the government put...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – An alliance of Malaysian opposition parties led by the country’s 92-year-old former authoritarian leader Mahathir Mohamad won a fiercely contested general election,...
– BEIJING – Officials from southwest China’s Yunnan province have defended a plan to build a dam in the region as “fully legally compliant”, after...
– – CHIANG RAI – Plan International, with support from Prudential Life Assurance (Thailand) Public Company Limited, recently launched the “Chiang Rai Safe City Model: Creating...
– BEIJING — At first glance, it seems the perfect solution to the world’s most dangerous standoff: Find a way to get China to use its...
– PYONGYANG – On Sunday September 2nd, 2017, North Korea announced it detonated a thermonuclear device in its sixth and most powerful nuclear test to date,...
– MAE CHAN – Chiang Rai’s Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Office dispatched officials in flat-bottomed boats to provide assistance to more than 100 homes in Chiang...
CHIANG RAI – Thailand’s Seismological Bureau of the Thai Meteorological Department reported a 3.6-magnitude earthquake shook the Mae Saruay district of Chiang Rai Province early...