The death toll from a powerful earthquake in the central Philippines rose to 72 on Thursday, officials said, as the search for the missing wound down and rescuers turned their focus to the hundreds injured and thousands left homeless.
Rescuers pulled two survivors from a collapsed school in Indonesia on Wednesday as frantic parents demanded searchers speed up efforts to find dozens of children believed still trapped in the rubble two days on...
The death toll from a powerful earthquake in the central Philippines rose to at least 69 on Wednesday, a disaster official said, with scores of injured patients overwhelming hospitals on the island of Cebu...
Searchers raced Tuesday to rescue at least 38 people still believed trapped a day after the collapse of an Islamic school building in Indonesia that has already left three dead, authorities said...
Flooding from long-lasting Typhoon Bualoi devastated homes, infrastructure and farmland across swaths of Vietnam on Tuesday, with the death toll rising to 26 and dozens more missing...
A Chinese court sentenced to death on Monday 16 members of a family-run criminal gang that established deadly scam centres in Myanmar鈥檚 Kokang region on the border with China, among other crimes.
A typhoon that ripped roofs off homes has killed dozens of people across Vietnam and the Philippines, officials from both countries said on Monday, as a weakened storm Bualoi crossed into neighbouring Laos.
The death toll from floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains in Thailand rose to seven, authorities said Saturday, as relief efforts continued.
A meeting between North Korea and the United States on the sidelines of this year鈥檚 APEC summit in South Korea 鈥榗annot be ruled out鈥�, according to a Seoul foreign ministry official.
South Korea鈥檚 prime minister apologized Saturday after a fire at a state data center disrupted hundreds of government online services, including the post office and emergency response systems.
Bualoi battered small islands in the centre of the Philippines on Friday, toppling trees and power pylons, ripping roofs off homes, unleashing floods and forcing 400,000 people to evacuate.
A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 4,00,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia not Africa, a study said Friday.
East Timor voted on Friday to scrap the lifetime pension law for MPs and public officials, following student-led demonstrations against lavish perks in one of Southeast Asia鈥檚 poorest countries.
The Philippines evacuated hundreds of thousands of people and confirmed at least three deaths on Friday as it faced yet another tropical storm, days after it was battered by deadly Super Typhoon Ragasa.
The Philippines shut schools and scrapped flights on Thursday as a fresh storm threatened to hit just days after a super typhoon killed nine people in the archipelago.
