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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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Toyota ends production in Russia, seeing no path to restart
Bloomberg News, Published on 24/09/2022
» Toyota Motor Corp has decided to cease vehicle production permanently at its lone car plant in Russia, a rare move for a company that is still manufacturing at sites in Japan dating back to its founding in the 1930s.
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150 million Indonesians live in quake/tsunami-prone areas: official
Kyodo News, Published on 26/12/2018
» JAKARTA: Better, more sophisticated disaster mitigation is urgently needed in Indonesia as around 150 million of its 245 million people live in areas prone to earthquakes and tsunamis, while its early warning system does not work well sometimes because equipment gets stolen, vandalized or broken due to poor maintenance, a government official said Wednesday.
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LATEST: 7 dead, airport isolated by Japan typhoon
Kyodo News, Published on 04/09/2018
» TOKYO: Powerful Typhoon Jebi A powerful typhoon ripped through western Japan on Tuesday, leaving at least seven people dead and more than 200 injured, while strong winds and high waves closed Kansai International Airport and caused a ship to smash into a bridge linking the airport with the main island.
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Widow shot dead on way to work in far South
Abdulloh Benjakat, Published on 19/01/2018
» NARATHIWAT: A 51 year-old woman whose husband was killed by insurgents three years ago was shot dead in Rangae district on Friday morning.
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Fire rips through maritime museum in Jakarta
Published on 16/01/2018
» JAKARTA: A fire ripped through a 17th century Dutch colonial building that houses a maritime museum in the Indonesian capital on Tuesday, causing extensive damage to its historical collections.
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Indonesia stock exchange floor collapses, 75 hurt
AFP, Published on 16/01/2018
» JAKARTA: At least 75 people were injured Monday when a mezzanine floor at Indonesia's stock exchange building collapsed into the lobby, police said.
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Injuries at Indonesia bourse after floor collapse
Published on 15/01/2018
» JAKARTA: Indonesia's Stock Exchange reopened for the afternoon session on Monday after about a dozen people were injured in a floor collapse. All staff were safe, it said.
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