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MANILA: Five people are feared dead after one of the Philippines' most active volcanoes spewed a giant ash cloud on Tuesday, with foreign tourists on its slopes during the eruption, authorities said.National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council chief Eduardo del Rosario said local officials reported that up to 20 climbers and guides, including foreigners, were on Mount Mayon when it erupted."Five killed and seven are injured, that is the latest report," del Rosario said. "We do not have the identity of those killed or injured, whether they are foreigners or locals."He said rescuers could not confirm firsthand the reported casualties until they reached the site.Joey Salceda, governor of eastern Albay province where the 2,460-metre (8,070-foot) Mayon is located, gave the same number of casualties.Marti Calleja, a local tour operator, said his company had sought help to rescue five foreigners who had gone to climb Mayon with his outfit's guides ...
HONG KONG: Hundreds of workers at a Hong Kong container port operated by tycoon Li Ka-shing voted Monday to end a 40-day strike, one of the city's longest-ever, after their employers offered a 9.8 percent pay rise.The stoppage had disrupted traffic at Hong Kong's container port, the world's third busiest. Protests spread to the Central financial district, where workers staged demonstrations outside the headquarters of Li's Cheung Kong group.The strikers, who at the height of ...
TEHRAN: A top Iranian general said any arms Israel targeted in Syria did not come from the Islamic republic, in remarks published on the Revolutionary Guards website on Monday. Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri "denied Western and Israeli media reports that an Iranian weapons depot has been targeted in Syria," the website reported."The Syrian government does not need Iran's military aid, and these sorts of reports are propaganda and psychological war," added the deputy chief of ...
JAKARTA: Indonesia on Monday summoned the British ambassador in Jakarta to protest after a group supporting the independence of the restive Papua region set up its headquarters in England, the envoy said.Mark Canning said he was summoned to see Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa, who "conveyed to me in clear terms the strong concern of the Indonesian government at the opening of a 'Free West Papua' office in Oxford".The "Free West Papua" group last month ...
BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas in Beijing on Monday, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu due to follow him later this week.Abbas's three-day trip -- the first by a Middle Eastern leader since Xi took office in March -- ends Tuesday, overlapping with a five-day visit to China by Netanyahu that begins in Shanghai on Monday and ends in the capital.Chinese state-run media have called Abbas' trip a state ...
BEIJING: Hundreds of people took to the streets of the Chinese city of Kunming on Saturday to protest against a planned refinery, in the latest show of concern over the effects of rapid growth on the environment.China's increasingly affluent urban population has begun to object to the model of growth at all costs that has fuelled the economy for three decades, with the environment emerging as a focus of protests.Photographs on Weibo, China's version of ...
SEOUL: South Korean police on Saturday stopped a planned launch of anti-North Korean leaflets across the tense border, sparking an angry protest from activists, witnesses said.A group of defectors from the North had said they would float 200,000 leaflets over the heavily militarised frontier by balloon on Saturday to protest Pyongyang's dire human rights record.Police set up road blocks on access routes to the planned launch site at Imjingak, and stopped a pickup truck loaded ...
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