Three Vietnamese workers injured in Taiwan factory explosion

One Vietnamese was killed and two others declared missing after an oil tanker caught fire while it was being refuelled off Hong Kong on Tuesday.

Russian rescuers were searching for people still trapped under the rubble of a city apartment block that partly collapsed in a suspected gas blast.

More than 40 people were injured in an explosion on Sunday at a bar in Sapporo in northern Japan, Kyodo news agency reported.

A truck carrying combustible chemicals exploded at the entrance of a chemical factory in a northern Chinese city that will host the 2022 Winter Olympics Wednesday.

A soldier, five militiamen and four civilians, including a mother and her child, were killed. Others were wounded but the exact number of casualties remained unclear.

A major explosion at a chemical plant in southwestern China has killed 19 people and injured 12, authorities said on Friday.

Two blasts rocked a station in Tan Binh District on Wednesday, injuring an officer and damaging some motorbikes.

Eight members of the armed forces were killed by the blast and the parallel attack on the French embassy, while 80 were wounded.

Lashio is in Myanmar’s restive Shan State where several ethnic insurgent groups are fighting the military.

Official said blasts aimed at the Shiite Tabayan cultural center.

The local authorites have yet to provide details about what may have caused the incident.

The blast happened at a time when many officials were expected to be collecting their salaries ahead of this week's Eid holiday.

The explosion is one of the deadliest in Kabul and coming at the start of the holy month of Ramadan.