Fifty-eight people are still missing after a wooden boat sank off eastern Indonesia two days ago. Fifty-eight people are still missing after a wooden boat sank off eastern Indonesia two days ago. Read article
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KOZHIKODE: Fifteen cases of Scrub Typhus infection, a communicable disease commonly found in southeast Asia and Japan, have been reported from various parts of the district. First reported from Malabar region in the state in 2006, the medical officials say that it is very difficult to know its symptoms mainly because in the initial stage […]
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Rescuers were scouring the ocean off eastern Indonesia on Sunday after 14 people went missing in high waves, police said according to a local newspaper. The boat was carrying 27 people to the island of Buru when it capsized after being hit by a 3-meter-high (10-foot-high) wave, local police official Zet Riry told The Jakarta […]
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SITTWE, Myanmar – Fifty people have been killed in communal clashes in western Myanmar, state media said Saturday, as the UN warned of “immense hardship” faced by thousands displaced by rioting. State mouthpiece the New Light of Myanmar said 50 people have died, with 54 injured between May 28 and June 14 in Rakhine state, […]
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A 46-year-old German tourist fell to his death from Marina Bay Sands Skypark. This is the first time such an incident has happened since the SkyPark’s June 2010 opening. Chinese daily Shin Min Daily News said the man was found on a grass patch in front of the integrated resort and that he was already […]
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Two Canadian sisters found dead in their hotel room on a popular Thai resort island may have been the victims of “serious food poisoning,” police said Sunday. The bodies of Audrey and Noemi Belanger, aged 20 and 26, were found Friday by hotel staff on Phi Phi island in the Andaman Sea, 800 kilometers (500 […]
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YOUNG Sydney woman on holiday in Thailand has been jailed for 15 days after admitting she made up a story that she was raped by a taxi driver. Stevie Rochelle Bamford, 21, from the eastern suburbs, had told police she took a tuktuk taxi home after arguing with her boyfriend while on a late night […]
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Police are investigating the cause of death of two Canadian sisters found dead in their hotel room on Phi Phi Island yesterday afternoon. Lt Siwa Saneha of Phi Phi Island Police Station told the Phuket Gazette, “We received a report at about 9pm yesterday, that two tourists’ bodies were found in the same hotel room […]
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A tourist from England lost her handbag containing digital camera, mobile phones, local and foreign currency and a hotel key to a snatch theft yesterday afternoon. The victim, a doctor was having dinner with friends and relatives at a restaurant at Simpang Tiga Road when a motorcyclist wearing a full face helmet came into the […]
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A strike and work slowdown at Istanbul’s main airport has forced Turkish Airlines to cancel more than 100 flights. Ground handlers, technicians and other workers are protesting a government-proposed legislation that would ban future strike actions by aviation workers. Read article
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