Vietnamese premier extends condolences to Japan over devastating quake
There has been no report of any Vietnamese casualties in the disasters in Japan
There has been no report of any Vietnamese casualties in the disasters in Japan
Japan 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
The 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
Tsunami warning megaphones and disaster response crews faced off against a hypothetical disaster
Search 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
TV 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
Four 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
The 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.
The 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