Soldiers and officials in northeastern Japan are warning residents that the area could be hit by another tsunami and are ordering residents to higher ground. Sirens around the town of Soma went off late Monday…
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Facebook and Twitter are causing deteriorating language skills among Thai students and authorities want them to return to the bygone tradition of letter-writing, the Culture Ministry said Friday. A national survey conducted by the ministry…
*Quake measured a magnitude of 8.8, triggering warnings of tsunami as high as six metres and shaking buildings in Tokyo. A series of powerful earthquakes have struck north-east Japan on Friday afternoon, triggering warnings of…
Real Madrid and Brazil playmaker Kaka, the 2007 World Player of the Year, will be out for about 15 days after injuring the left knee that was operated on following the 2010 World Cup. Kaka,…
Zhang Gongli was delighted to see blue skies and white clouds again in his hometown, a small village in east China’s Anhui province. He and his village, Qiugang in Bengbu City, became famous because of…
The exchange rate policy is not a major tool for China to tame inflation, central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan said Friday. Zhou made the comment in response to a question on whether China would make…
The country’s top legislator on Thursday warned of a possible “abyss of internal disorder” if China strays from the “correct political orientation”. China will never adopt a multiparty revolving-door system or other Western-style political models,…
The number of Americans initially applying for unemployment aid last week rose after hitting its lowest level in nearly three years a week earlier, the U.S. Labor Department said Thursday. The Labor Department said that…
Many countries in the world on Thursday voiced their opposition to any military intervention in unrest-torn Libya amid increasing calls for enforcing a no-fly zone over the North African country. The Syrian Foreign Ministry said…
Israel Defense Minister Ehud Barak says his country will ask for another 20 billion dollars from the United States to modernize Israeli arsenals and maintain what he called its “qualitative progress” in military matters concerning…