Category - Asia

MANILA, Philippines – Philippine Airlines (PAL) will announce its cancelled flights once authorities provide the final schedule of runway closures in connection with the arrival of heads of state for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit on Nov. 16 to 20. The cancellations are supposedly to enable the use of the runways of the Ninoy […]

A new tropical storm threatens to trigger flooding across the Philippines into Friday before taking aim at southeastern China and northern Vietnam later this weekend and early next week. Tropical downpours will accompany the newly-formed tropical storm as it pushes across the northern half of the Philippines from east to west into Friday……….. ………..Among the […]

Massive explosions have rocked the city of Tianjin in northern China, the Chinese Xinhua news agency reported Wednesday.   The initial blasts were caused by flammable material stored at a container terminal and were felt kilometres away. The explosions occurred sometime after 11 p.m. local time, Xinhua said.   Subsequent fires later caused a series […]

Soudelor rapidly intensified on Monday, becoming a super typhoon and reaching the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic or Eastern Pacific basins. Soudelor reached peak intensity late Monday with winds near 290 kph (180 mph) making it the strongest tropical cyclone anywhere on the planet this year. Even though Soudelor has weakened, […]

MANILA, Philippines – The country’s chief seismologist has appealed to Metro Manila residents to take part in the one-hour metro-wide earthquake drill on Thursday.   Renato Solidum, director of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs), said the cooperation of all sectors is important.   “Whatever you are doing, you must know the proper […]

No immediate reports of damage, tsunami after magnitude 5.5 quak Updated May 25, 2015 6:51 a.m. ET TOKYO—A powerful earthquake shook central Tokyo on Monday afternoon, causing temporary suspension of the area’s train system and the runways at one of the capital’s airports.   The magnitude 5.5 quake–centered on the northern part of Saitama prefecture, […]