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Scores feared buried alive after new Japan quake
Kyodo News, Published on 16/04/2016
» KUMAMOTO, JAPAN — Scores of people were feared buried alive on Saturday after two powerful earthquakes hit southern Japan a day apart, killing at least 35 people, and as a forecast storm threatened more devastating landslides.
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Nepal reopens World Heritage sites
Published on 16/06/2015
» BHAKTAPUR, NEPAL — Nepal has announced the reopening of Unesco World Heritage sites in Kathmandu Valley, seven weeks after a deadly quake that killed 8,787 people and damaged hundreds of cultural monuments and some key trekking trails in the country where tourism employs about a million people.
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Nepal to reopen damaged heritage sites
Published on 28/05/2015
» KATHMANDU — Nepal has decided to reopen next month three world heritage sites that have been off-limits to tourists since last month's devastating earthquake, officials said.
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9 killed, 860 hurt in magnitude 6.5 quake in southern Japan
Kyodo News, Published on 15/04/2016
» Nine people died and 860 others were injured after a powerful earthquake jolted southwestern Japan on Thursday night, local police said Friday as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged the government's best efforts in rescue and relief work.
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Quakes in southwest Japan unlikely to cease soon
Published on 20/04/2016
» KUMAMOTO, JAPAN — The weather agency said Wednesday it sees no signs of seismic activity abating in Kumamoto and surrounding prefectures in southwestern Japan following powerful earthquakes last week, urging people to remain alert.
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Search for Taiwan quake victims ends with death toll at 116
Kyodo News, Published on 14/02/2016
» The death toll from a powerful earthquake that struck southern Taiwan on Feb. 6 rose to 116 on Saturday as rescue workers ended their search for bodies buried under rubble of a collapsed apartment complex where all but two of the fatalities were found.
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Hun Sen warns of war if opposition party rules Cambodia
Kyodo News, Published on 19/10/2015
» Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen warned Monday that a "new war" would erupt if an opposition party gets a chance to rule the country.
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Myanmar officials suggest poll postponement: Suu Kyi party
AFP, Published on 13/10/2015
» YANGON - Myanmar election authorities on Tuesday suggested postponing landmark November polls, a spokesman for Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party said, throwing doubt over the timing of the first credible elections in generations.
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China bomb attacks kill 7
Kyodo News, Published on 01/10/2015
» BEIJING - More than a dozen parcel bombs exploded Wednesday afternoon in southern China's Guangxi region, killing at least seven people and injuring more than 50 others, according to media reports.
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