BANGKOK -- An Air India flight from Thailand's resort island of Phuket to Delhi requested an emergency landing on Friday due to a bomb threat, Phuket's airport said.
The Airport said the Air India flight AI 379, with 156 passengers on board, had taken off from Phuket bound for India's Delhi when the pilot reported a bomb threat message on board and requested to make an emergency landing, prompting the airport to activate its contingency plan. (Thailand-Air India-Emergency Landing)
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TOKYO -- Around 130 representatives from the media and cultural industries of China and Japan have gathered at a media salon at the Chinese embassy in Japan, focusing on the role of media in promoting people-to-people and cultural exchanges.
Two panel discussions were held on Thursday under the themes "The Responsibility of Media in China-Japan Cultural Exchange" and "Cooperation in Content and Cultural Industries." (Japan-China-Media Salon)
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NEW DELHI -- Aviation authorities have found one of the two black boxes of the Air India flight that crashed in the western Indian state of Gujarat, killing 241 on board, local newspaper Hindustan Times said.
The London-bound flight crashed on Thursday afternoon shortly after takeoff from the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad, about 17 km south of Gandhinagar, the capital city of Gujarat. (India-Air India-Black Box)
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HANOI -- Central Vietnam has been hit by widespread flooding following heavy rains brought by Typhoon Wutip, the National Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control reported on Friday.
More than 800 houses in Da Nang city and Quang Nam province were inundated, while over 58,000 hectares of rice fields and crops across the region were submerged. (Vietnam-Flooding) ■
