Tag: Southern

At least six people have been killed and more than 20,000 displaced during a week of fighting between extremists and security forces in the...

Six people were killed on Wednesday when 15 letter bombs exploded in southern China, state media reported, with blasts reported in more than ten...

Southern Australian states are bracing for more bushfires as a record-breaking heatwave continues, Al Jazeera's Andrew Thomas reports from the island state of Tasmania....

Commuters and motorists had to face severe hardships due to closure of CNG stations across Sindh on Saturday. Under the gas load-management plan, Sui...

Azim Iqbal Siddiqui, the managing director of Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC), has tendered his resignation from the office on what an offical statement...

The industrialists in this commercial capital of the country on Friday expressed grave concern on the production-curtailing low gas pressure in the city’s industrial...

One of the most powerful typhoons in decades hit Japan’s Okinawa on Sunday, with meteorologists warning it could bring record rain and wind to...

Russia on Sunday scrambled to deal with the aftermath of devastating flash floods that killed at least 152 people and swept away homes in...

Severe flash floods in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region have killed at least 99 people and affected nearly 13,000 in the area’s worst natural disaster...

Young doctors from south Punjab on Friday joined the strike being observed at public sector hospitals after the Punjab Young Doctors Association gave the...

Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Saturday that the creation of a new province for the people of Southern Punjab would end...

A massive blackout caused by "human failure" left nearly 5 million people without power in parts of California, Arizona and Mexico on Thursday, and...

Famine-hit areas of southern Somalia will likely spread in coming days, with the situation continuing to worsen despite massive international aid efforts, the United...

The UN officially declared famine in two parts of southern Somalia Wednesday as the world slowly mobilised to save the 12 million people battling...

A sum of Rs 21.6 billion will be spent on acquisition of land for the southern section of Ring Road in accordance with the...

BANGKOK - A total of 47 people were confirmed killed by the flash floods and mudslides in southern Thailand, authority said on Tuesday.
The department of Disaster Pravention and Mitigation said Nakorn Si Thammarat is the most deadly province where 20 people died in floods caused by heavy rains that have pummeled the coastline of the Gulf of Thailand since March 23.
Provinces hit by major flooding are Nakhon Si Thammarat, Phatthalung, Surat Thani, Trang, Chumphon, Songkhla,

HONG KONG - The world's highest hotel opened its doors in Hong Kong on Tuesday, housed in the city's tallest skyscraper and offering unrivalled panoramic views of the world famous Victoria Harbour.
Towering some 490 metres (1,600 feet) above the bustling, chaotic streets of the Southern Chinese city, the Ritz-Carlton Hotel is making a grand comeback after temporarily closing in 2008.
Visitors peered out of the floor-to-ceiling windows of the 118th floor of the International