MANILA — The oil spill from a sunken oil tanker off the coast of the Philippines’ Oriental Mindoro province has affected virtually 100,000 individuals and sickened 122, provincial governor Humerlito Dolor mentioned on Monday.
Authorities are nonetheless scrambling to comprise the unfold of the oil leaking from the tanker carrying 800,000 liters of business gas oil that sank on Feb. 28. (Philippines-Oil Spill-Impact)
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TOKYO — Japanese creator and Nobel Prize laureate Kenzaburo Oe has died on the age of 88, native media reported on Monday.
According to writer Kodansha Ltd., Oe died of previous age within the early hours of March 3. (Japan-Novelist-Death)
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SEOUL — An enormous fireplace broke out at a tire plant within the South Korean central metropolis of Daejeon, with no severe harm reported, Yonhap news company mentioned Monday.
The flame began at 10:09 p.m. native time (1309 GMT) on Sunday from the plant, run by Hankook Tire & Technology, in Daejeon, some 140 km south of the capital Seoul. (South Korea-Fire)
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KUALA LUMPUR — Former Malaysian prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin was slapped with a contemporary cash laundering cost on Monday, bringing the whole fees he faces to seven.
Muhyiddin was alleged to have acquired 5 million ringgit (1.11 million U.S. {dollars}) in unlawful proceeds from an funding firm into his get together’s account, prosecutors mentioned. (Malaysia-Former PM-Money Laundering)