• No OFWs injured in Taiwan quakes

    No overseas Filipino workers were injured in the series of earthquakes that shook Taiwan early yesterday morning, the Department of Migrant Workers said.

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    Dozens of overnight quakes rattle Taiwan

    STORY: Footage showed Marshal building and a hotel in Hualien, which had already been damaged on April 3's quake, tilted to the side. According to authorities, the structures were empty due to this.There were no reports of any casualties.More than 80 earthquakes, the strongest of 6.3 magnitude, struck Taiwan's east coast starting Monday (April 22) night and into the early hours of Tuesday (April 23) and some caused shaking of buildings in the capital Taipei, the island's weather administration...

  • French air traffic controllers cancel strike

    Unions had called for a major strike on Thursday after a breakdown of negotiations on salary increases and other measures in a planned overhaul of France's air traffic control system.

  • Taiwan rattled by dozens of quakes, but no major damage

    Buildings across large parts of northern, eastern and western Taiwan, including in the capital, Taipei, swayed throughout the night, with the largest quake measuring a 6.3 magnitude

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    Taiwan rattled by dozens of quakes, but no major damage

    TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan's quake-hit eastern county of Hualien was rattled by dozens of aftershocks late on Monday and early on Tuesday, but only minor damage was reported and no casualties and major chipmaker TSMC said it saw no impact on operations. Largely rural and sparsely populated Hualien was hit by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake on April 3 that killed at least 14 people, and there have been more than 1,000 aftershocks since. Taiwan's Central Weather Administration said the spate of...

  • Taiwan earthquakes: Cluster of quakes shakes Hualien

    Schools and offices in Hualien and the surrounding county were ordered closed as hundreds of aftershocks continued to strike on land and just off the coast in the Pacific Ocean.

  • Taiwan Hit By Dozens Of Strong Aftershocks From Deadly Quake

    Taiwan was shaken by dozens of earthquakes overnight and into Tuesday that left buildings swaying, with the government saying they were aftershocks from a huge deadly quake that hit the island more than two weeks ago.The strongest, which the US Geological Survey measured at magnitude 6.1, hit around 2:30 am (1830 GMT) followed minutes later by a 6.0 tremor.Taipei's Central Weather Administration put them at 6.0 and 6.3, respectively.Authorities said there were no casualties reported so far, but...

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    Taiwan's Hualien hit by 5.5-magnitude quake

    TAIPEI: A 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck Taiwan's eastern county of Hualien on Monday (Apr 22), the island's weather administration said, with no immediate reports of damage. The quake, which had a depth of 10km, also shook buildings in the capital Taipei. Hualien was the epicent

  • Thousands of flights scrapped as French air traffic controllers strike

    Thousands of flights were cancelled in France and Europe on Thursday as a strike by French air traffic controllers over pay caused stoppages not seen in two decades. Airlines cut more than half of their normal flight schedules at Paris's two main airports Orly and Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle, with many flights

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    VIA held groundbreaking ceremony for air traffic control tower

    HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Valley International Airport held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new air traffic control tower on Wednesday. The new tower is set to replace the original one that was built in 1971. Modifications have been made in order to handle more air traffic. "We had a lot to go through, you can []

  • 12.9-inch iPad Air won't have Mini LED display after all

    Last week a report from a usually reliable source told us Apple was planning on using leftover Mini LED displays from its current-gen 12.9" iPad Pro for the upcoming 12.9" iPad Air. That would have been a very noticeable bump in display quality compared to the existing iPad Air model, but the excitement turns out to have been unwarranted. The very same Ross Young of Display Supply Chain Consultants today shatters our dreams by saying the 12.9" iPad Air will not in fact use Mini LED panels, and...

  • The Maxima Furiosa is a Super Powerful, Bi-Color, Portable LED

    Maxima, the Italy-based lighting manufacturer that last year announced the insanely bright 6 GaN LED, today announced the Furiosa, what it is calling the the most portable, high-power, bi-color LED fixture on the market. [Read More]