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Report: Indonesia Quake Death Toll Rises to 347

The death toll in Sunday's devastating earthquake on Indonesia's Lombok island has risen to 347, the state-run Antara news agency reported Wednesday. Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, a spokesman for the country's National Disaster...

Pakistan’s Incoming Government to Plant ’10 Billion Trees’

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — Pakistan's incoming government under Prime Minister-elect Imran Khan plans to "aggressively" undertake a massive countrywide campaign to plant 10 billion trees in the next five years to tackle climate...

23% of SE Asia’s bat population about to go extinct

BACOLOD CITY -- Nearly a quarter of the bat population of Southeast Asia, where about 30 percent of the world’s bats are found, is threatened with extinction, a US-based conservation expert said...

Lao Dam Breach Highlights Fears Over Massive Projects

BANGKOK — Non-government organizations and researchers are calling on the Lao Government to ensure transparency in its investigations on Lao populations affected by massive flooding from a breach in a hydropower dam...

Indonesian Quake Victims Shelter in Makeshift Tents; Tourists Evacuate

Thousands of people made homeless by a powerful earthquake on Indonesian resort islands looked for shelter Monday night as rescue workers continued to search for the missing and said the death...

PH-Japan ties ‘closer than brothers’

MANILA -- High-level engagements between Japanese and Filipino officials over the past two years signaled the expanded and deeper bilateral relations of the two nations -- a "friendship" that the Philippine embassy...

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