Seven Indonesian sailors have been taken hostage in the Sulu Sea in the southern Philippines, Indonesia’s foreign minister said on Friday, the latest in a string of abductions in the waters between the two Southeast Asian neighbors. “We got confirmation of an incident of kidnapping involving Indonesian crew of a ship,” Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno […]
A mudslide triggered by heavy rains has caused a train to partially derail in Hiroshima, western Japan.West Japan Railway Company says a crew member on the San-yo Line reported their train ran into a pile of mud and rocks shortly after 12:30 AM on Thursday. The train’s driver noticed the tracks were covered and immediately […]
Human body parts including a head and a foot were found in a park pond in Tokyo on Thursday. According to police, a visitor to the park noticed a body part floating in the pond at Himonya Park in Meguro Ward at around 10:30 a.m., Fuji TV reported. He notified police at a nearby koban. […]
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It’s 9 a.m. Wednesday and the “Big One” was supposed to have just struck Metro Manila. What to do? Authorities first sounded a 45-second long siren to signal the start of this year’s Shake Drill to check how prepared officials, ordinary folks and community leaders are to handle the aftermath of a magnitude 7.2 quake […]
A knife-wielding man stabbed four women at a shopping mall in Kushiro, Hokkaido on Tuesday, leaving one of them dead and the other three injured, police said. The police arrested the man at the scene. The resident of Kushiro told the police he is suffering from mental illness. “I stabbed the people because I don’t […]
Torrential rain fell across the northern part of Japan’s southwestern region of Kyushu on Wednesday morning.Weather officials are warning of more mudslides and flooding as a front is expected to be active again from Wednesday night through Thursday morning. The front over western Japan dropped more than 80 millimeters of rain per hour in parts […]
The Philippines has emerged as among the world’s most promising destinations of foreign investments in the next three years, according to the United Nations Conference of Trade and Development (UNCTD). In its World Investment Report 2016, UNCTD said the US, China and India remain the top destinations of investments by multinational enterprises (MNEs) between this […]
The Japanese government has expressed concern over moves of a Chinese intelligence gathering naval ship in an area just outside Japan’s contiguous zone near the Senkaku Islands.Japan controls the islands. The Japanese government maintains the islands are an inherent part of Japan’s territory. China and Taiwan claim them. The Defense Ministry says a Japanese Maritime […]
Mos Food Services Inc., the operator of Mos Burger hamburger restaurants, in August will begin recruiting part-time workers in five languages via a special website. The move is part of the chain’s efforts to cope with an anticipated increase in the number of foreign visitors to the country ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The […]
