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Japan's century of efforts to tame earthquakes
AFP, Published on 30/08/2023
» TOKYO - Takashi Hosoda was in a Tokyo skyscraper when the 9.0 magnitude quake struck on March 11, 2011, but the trained architect was "not particularly worried" as modern Japanese buildings are designed to protect their occupants.
Colombian community wins fight to protect paradise
AFP, Published on 25/08/2023
» NUQUI, Colombia: In the remote west of Colombia, where virgin rainforest and pristine beaches collide, a group of politicians and businessmen dreamed of building a massive port on the Pacific.
'You can't even see the roof': Ukrainians flee flood
AFP, Published on 07/06/2023
» KHERSON, Ukraine: With the flood reaching the rooftops, rescuers raced to save people in Kherson as water from the destroyed Kakhovka dam engulfed the southern Ukrainian city.
Farmers tap into sustainable rubber industry
AFP, Published on 22/02/2023
» By the light of a head torch, Wanida Hityim deftly strips bark from a rubber tree, collecting the milky latex as she explains why she is among a small number of Thai farmers trying to work more sustainably.
In flooded Kryvyi Rih, residents defiant against Russia
AFP, Published on 18/09/2022
» KRYVYI RIG, Ukraine: The basement of Ukrainian grandma Lyubov Adamenko is full of mud and sludge from the flood that hit her house after Russians blew up a nearby dam.
Russians 'pushed away from Kharkiv' as Washington warns of long war
AFP, Published on 11/05/2022
» KYIV, Ukraine: Russian troops were being pushed away from Ukraine's second city Kharkiv, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, but sounded a note of caution as Washington said Vladimir Putin would not stop with the east and was ready for a long war.
Josephine Baker: France's adopted Black superstar immortalised
AFP, Published on 22/11/2021
» PARIS - Josephine Baker overcame the racism that she parodied in her famous banana skirt dance to become the world's first Black female superstar.
China villagers learn to live with the elephant in the room
AFP, Published on 19/08/2021
» JINGHONG (CHINA) - Ma Mingliang rarely encountered wild elephants while growing up in southwestern China, after centuries of hunting and deforestation nearly eradicated them. Today, the 42-year-old village chief barricades his community to keep them out.
Not just Covid: earthquakes, typhoons pose threat at Tokyo Olympics
AFP, Published on 12/07/2021
» TOKYO - The coronavirus might top the risks at the Tokyo Olympics, but organisers in Japan have other deadly, unpredictable threats to contend with: natural disasters.
China's plans for Himalayan super dam stoke fears in India
AFP, Published on 11/04/2021
» BEIJING: China is planning a mega dam in Tibet able to produce triple the electricity generated by the Three Gorges -- the world's largest power station -- stoking fears among environmentalists and in neighbouring India.