November 19, 2011
An undated file photo taken at the Toyota Vietnam plant. Toyota President Akio Toyoda said last week the company isn’t considering reducing investment in Thailand. Japanese companies, Thailand’s biggest foreign investors, may spend more to build factories in neighbors including Indonesia and Vietnam after the worst flooding in 70 years disrupted global production. “Executives recognize [...]
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October 28, 2011
Saif Al-Islam, son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, gestures as he talks to reporters in Tripoli August 23, 2011. International war crimes prosecutors are in touch with Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, urging him to give himself up and warning him Friday he risks a mid-air interception if he tries to flee by plane to an African [...]
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October 23, 2011
Thailand's prime minister warned Saturday the kingdom will endure weeks more flooding, telling anxious Bangkok residents to prepare for possible metre-deep water as the inundation spread. Thai troops on Sunday reinforced vulnerable barriers along Bangkok’s Chao Phraya river after a sudden rise in the water level set back efforts to contain the worst floods in [...]
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October 21, 2011
 Thai people wade through floodwaters in the inundated Ban Bua Thong district of suburban Bangkok on October 20, 2011. Millions of jittery Bangkok residents were warned Friday to move their belongings higher up after the government admitted it was failing in its battle to hold back huge floods just north of the city. In [...]
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October 16, 2011
Villagers built a wooden bridge in a flooded temple complex in Nonthaburi province, on the outskirts of Bangkok October 16, 2011. Floods swamped another industrial estate in central Thailand on Sunday and threatened a bigger one just outside the capital, Bangkok, which has so far escaped the worst despite heavy monsoon rain and water streaming [...]
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October 15, 2011
Thailand’s premier reassured Bangkok’s 12 million residents over a looming flood crisis, after an evacuation false alarm briefly sparked panic and people stockpiled food and water. Thailand fought to hold back floodwaters flowing towards Bangkok Saturday as a spring tide hindered efforts to protect the city of 12 million people from the kingdom’s worst inundation [...]
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July 16, 2011
Vigilante mobs in northern Vietnam are beating and murdering men who attempt to profit by kidnapping their dogs and selling them to butchers. The charred remains of a motorbike that belonged to a slain dog thief in Nghe An Province. Rampant dog theft has lead to widespread vigilante justice in the north-central province. Nguyen [...]
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April 18, 2011
Shawtna Mathews, 13, pictured on April 17, 2011, after a tornado destroyed her home in Gloucester, Virginia. US authorities Monday rushed aid to southern states after powerful tornadoes cut a path of death and destruction, killing at least 45 and reducing entire towns to piles of rubble. The tragedy began late Thursday in Oklahoma, where [...]
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March 19, 2011
A toy lies in front of a destroyed house in the devastated city of Ofunato. Rescue teams from the US, Britain and China began assisting in the search for survivors following the devasting earthquake and ensuing tsunami on March 11. Workers were ordered to withdraw from a stricken Japanese nuclear power plant on Wednesday after [...]
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March 14, 2011
An "SOS" signal is written on the sports field of a high school after the magnitude 8.9 earthquake and tsunami struck the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture in northern Japan March 13, 2011 A hydrogen explosion rocked the earthquake-stricken nuclear plant in Japan where authorities have been working desperately to avert a meltdown, compounding a [...]
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