4+ hour, 4+ min ago   (1238+ words) BRENDA GOH, JU-MIN PARK and EDUARDO BAPTISTA, of Reuters, report on how North Koreans are increasingly indulging in leisure and pleasure activities… Coffee bars. Waterparks. Retail therapy. North Korea – a country few would associate with leisure or pleasure – is experiencing…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (493+ words) Manila, The Philippines Reuters The Philippines has deployed coast guard, military and civilian vessels in a race to find survivors on a smouldering passenger-and-cargo ferry off the western island of Palawan, after a fire on board killed at least five…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (372+ words) Manila, The Philippines Reuters A large-scale search and rescue operation was underway off the western Philippine island of Palawan on Thursday after a passenger ferry caught fire, killing five people and leaving dozens of passengers missing. The Philippine Coast Guard…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (431+ words) Rescuers in Nepal are focusing on three hydropower project tunnels where they believe dozens of workers could be trapped, authorities said on Tuesday, two weeks after a devastating flood killed hundreds and left thousands missing in the Himalayan country and…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (734+ words) Nepali rescuers searched on Monday for more than 100 hydropower workers feared trapped in tunnels days after four miracle rescues from the wreckage of catastrophic floods that laid waste to towns and villages on the Himalayan border with China. The rescues…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (595+ words) Chinese officials said on Sunday that workers had recovered 12 more bodies as the search continued for hundreds still missing after a tsunami-like mudslide destroyed China’s main border crossing with Nepal. Rescue workers in bright orange uniforms used excavators, shovels and…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago   (444+ words) Believing she had perished in Nepal’s deadly floods, the family of Chandika Kumari Shrestha started the ritual of mourning the elderly woman’s death. Ten days later, rescuers found her alive inside her collapsed home in the devastated Betrawati village, where…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (289+ words) Nearly 800 Indonesians have fallen ill in separate incidents of food poisoning linked to the government’s free meals program, a member of a parliamentary commission overseeing health said, including more than 500 students in East Java province this week. President Prabowo Subianto…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (796+ words) Rescue teams raced on Wednesday to reach dozens of workers believed to be trapped inside hydropower tunnels in Nepal’s mountains, offering one of the last hopes of finding survivors a week after a Himalayan flood killed more than 1,100 people. The…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (621+ words) For four agonising days after floodwaters tore through Nepal’s Rasuwa district, Ayush Khadka’s family searched desperately for any sign that the 21-year-old civil servant was still alive. The Khadkas were among thousands of families clinging to hope amid the chaos…...