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No tsunami threat to Japan after huge volcanic eruption in Indonesia’
Kyodo News, Published on 02/08/2025
» KYODO — Japan's weather agency said there is no tsunami threat to the country following a huge volcanic eruption on the Indonesian island of Flores on Saturday.
China warns nationals holidaying in Bali to mind safety risks
Published on 16/02/2024
» HONG KONG: China has issued a special warning to its nationals visiting Bali, after multiple "traffic accidents and drownings" involving Chinese tourists in the Indonesian resort island.
A Hawaiian mystery in Las Vegas
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 16/07/2023
» When Pauline Kauinani Souza was a child in Hawaii, she spent early mornings watering her grandfather's watermelons and papaya trees.
Viking city mystery gains ground
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 04/06/2023
» After the local government decided to build an observation tower atop a sandy hill on Wolin, an island in the Baltic Sea, a Polish archaeologist was called in to check the site before construction and look for buried artefacts from the spot's macabre past.
Madagascar police confirm killing 19 civilians after albino kidnap
AFP, Published on 31/08/2022
» ANTANANARIVO - Madagascar police confirmed Tuesday that officers killed 19 people and injured 21 others after opening fire on what was described as a lynch mob angered over the kidnapping of an albino child.
Tourists in Chinese beachside resort city protest Covid lockdown
Published on 14/08/2022
» Tourists in the Chinese seaside resort of Sanya on Hainan Island are protesting after being stranded for over a week due to Covid-19 lockdowns.
Two divers rescued in Malaysia but teen died
Reuters, Published on 09/04/2022
» MERSING, Malaysia: A Dutch teenager died when a group he was diving with off the coast of Malaysia coast went missing, officials said on Saturday following the dramatic rescue of his father and two others.
Indonesian militant jailed for 15 years over 2002 Bali bombings
AFP, Published on 19/01/2022
» An Indonesian court sentenced an Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist militant to 15 years in prison on Wednesday for his role in the 2002 bombings that killed more than 200 people on the resort island of Bali.
Vietnam's spectacular terraced ricefields wait for tourists
AFP, Published on 02/12/2021
» YêN BáI, Vietnam: As the morning sun finds its way through the mist over Vietnam's terraced rice fields, local farmers lead buffalo into the paddies and pass another day without tourists in their hilly homeland.
Digital nomads flee virus-hit Manila for shattered tourist towns
AFP, Published on 18/06/2021
» SAN JUAN, Philippines: After months cooped up in coronavirus-hit Manila, Tanya Mariano fled the Philippine capital to work from the beach, joining a growing number of digital nomads helping a devastated tourism industry stay afloat.