Vietnamese premier extends condolences to Japan over devastating quake
Vietnam News 12:25 03/01/2024There has been no report of any Vietnamese casualties in the disasters in Japan
Analysis: Japan's 'solidarity' quake tax may be model to foot pandemic bill
World 13:30 10/03/2021Japan is paying for the huge cost of rebuilding areas hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami with a special 'solidarity' tax that could become a model to shoulder the much bigger spending needed to combat the coronavirus pandemic
Australia, New Zealand cancel tsunami warnings as threat from Pacific quake eases
World 09:13 11/02/2021The earthquake struck in the South Pacific, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, sparking a tsunami warning for New Zealand, New Caledonia, Vanuatu and other nations in the region
Vietnam stages country’s first tsunami drill in Da Nang
Vietnam News 10:55 27/12/2018Tsunami warning megaphones and disaster response crews faced off against a hypothetical disaster
Rescuers dig through rubble for survivors after Indonesian tsunami kills 280
World 09:53 24/12/2018Search and rescue officials used their bare hands and some heavy machinery to clear the remains of buildings on Monday. Government and non-government aid trickled in to Pandeglang, the worst-affected area on Java’s west coast
Tsunami from erupting Krakatau kills at least 222 in Indonesia
World 18:17 23/12/2018TV images showed the seconds when the tsunami hit the beach and residential areas in Pandeglang on Java island, dragging with it victims, debris, and large chunks of wood and metal
Aftershocks still rattle east Japan four years after megaquake
World 19:00 11/03/2015Four years after a magnitude 9 earthquake shook northern and eastern Japan, the region is rocked by tremors at more than double the average rate of the decade before the disaster
US envoy Kennedy tours Fukushima nuclear plant
World 21:30 14/05/2014The 56-year-old envoy, who took up her post last November, was on a tour of Japan's northeast, which was devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
7.1-magnitude quake strikes Papua New Guinea
World 20:00 16/10/2013The quake hit at a depth of 58 kilometres (36 miles) at 8.31 pm (1031 GMT), 65 kilometres west of Panguna town on Papua New Guinea's Bougainville Island, and 642 kilometres west of Honiara in the Solomon Islands
