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Japan's wartime atrocities still cast a long shadow across the Asia-Pacific
34+ min ago (696+ words) Japanese lawmakers were reportedly preparing to submit a bill in early July to provide aid to surviving civilian victims of the Pacific War, part of World War II, reopening debate over Japan’s handling of its wartime past. The bill would…...
Dancing Girl of Mohenjo-daro: The India-Pakistan Dispute
1+ hour, 12+ min ago (358+ words) The bronze figurine of the Dancing Girl of Mohenjo Daro was made 4500 years ago by the Indus Valley Civilisation. She resides in a museum in India but she comes from what is now Pakistan. She has been the subject of…...
Connecting the Atlantic and Pacific
5+ hour, 37+ min ago (97+ words) WKAR - On Air Now Playing WKAR NewsTalk - AM 870 | 102.3 FM - On Air Now Playing WKAR Radio Reading Service Connecting the Atlantic and Pacific On December 10, 1913, after a final push of excavation, the unbroken waterway finally connected the Atlantic Ocean to the…...
Leaning skyscraper where worker died could be left unfinished - AOL
11+ hour, 19+ min ago (11+ words) Leaning skyscraper where worker died could be left unfinished AOL.com...
"A Sea of Humanity"
5+ hour, 46+ min ago (58+ words) WKAR - On Air Now Playing WKAR NewsTalk - AM 870 | 102.3 FM - On Air Now Playing WKAR Radio Reading Service "A Sea of Humanity" News footage shows the panic permeating South Vietnam leading up to the Fall of Saigon in April, 1975. "Last Days…...
Typhoon Bavi batters east China
3+ hour, 6+ min ago (250+ words) Typhoon Bavi, the most powerful storm to strike mainland China this year, brought heavy rain to the eastern coast yesterday and lashed densely populated cities with violent winds, testing the country’s ability to cope with extreme weather. Bavi had weakened…...
China Asia Storms | World | jonesborosun.com
3+ hour, 32+ min ago (230+ words) China Asia Storms Jonesboro Sun Typhoon Bavi weakens but still brings strong winds and rain to China Typhoon Bavi has weakened to a tropical storm but it's still bringing strong winds and heavy rain to parts of China. The storm…...
To defend itself from a sea that killed thousands, the Netherlands closed a bay with giant dikes, drained almost 1,000 km² of seabed, and transformed the land reclaimed from the ocean into Flevopolder, the largest artificial island on the planet, where today more than 400,000 people live below sea level.
2+ hour, 34+ min ago (950+ words) There is a place in the north of Europe where the solid ground was actually taken from the bottom of the sea. According to the Guinness World Records, the largest artificial island in the world is Flevopolder, in the Netherlands,…...
Decades-old radio records prove China's longstanding sovereignty over Huangyan Dao
6+ hour, 50+ min ago (334+ words) Chen Ping, leader of several Chinese amateur radio expeditions to Huangyan Dao in the 1990s during the interview. /CMG A decades-old piece of amateur radio history has resurfaced as evidence that the Philippines once formally acknowledged Huangyan Dao was not within…...
Typhoon Bavi batters east China and Taiwan
17+ hour, 41+ min ago (287+ words) By Go Nakamura, Xihao Jiang and Ella Cao, Reuters Emergency crews on China's east coast used excavators and chainsaws on Sunday to clear streets littered with fallen trees hours after Typhoon Bavi, the most powerful storm to hit the country…...