The total economic losses incurred are estimated to be around $6-$7 billion. This is more than the country’s foreign reserves ...

Cyclone Ditwah which created terror during four frightening days finally moved away. It made landfall on Wednesday, November ...

Few politicians have had the roller-coaster career that Alexander Downer did, from being born into the establishment, arriving in parliament with youthful promise and climbing the opposition ranks ...

The quake, which occurred off the coast of Aomori prefecture, followed a 7.5-magnitude earthquake this week that injured at ...

Authorities have blamed the scale of devastation in northern Sumatra partly on uncontrolled logging.

Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said the government set up an emergency task force to urgently assess the extent of ...

Japan has issued a tsunami advisory after a 6.7 magnitude earthquake shook the country’s northeast. The quake occurred off the east coast of Aomori prefecture, in the north of Honshu, the main ...

Those memories have been revived for the 64-year-old after cyclone-induced floods and landslides bore down on three provinces ...

JAKARTA: Indonesia's government is resisting growing pressure to declare a national disaster over devastating floods that ...

Emergency crews are racing against time after catastrophic floods and landslides struck parts of Asia, killing more than ...

Unusually destructive storms have killed at least 1,350 people across the region and displaced millions in South and ...

The Japanese government was still assessing damages from the tsunami and late-evening quake, which struck at about 11:15 p.m.