Rescue personnel and other volunteers are still working through rubble to find survivors after two days an earthquake hit Taiwan, Saturday, February 6, days before the most important family holiday in Chinese culture--the Chinese Lunar New Year.
Listed below are a few Colombian festivals that every traveller must take note of. Colombia, which is one of Latin America's most famous destinations, has a lot to offer.
Hollywood actresses Jessica Alba, Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate Hudson are set to conquer the Wall Street. While some successful companies have made its founders as celebrities, there are only a few companies that have been taken public by a-list stars.
Japanese Taxi Drivers are claiming to experienced having "ghost passengers" in the city of Ishinomaki in Miyagi. The prefecture is one of the devastated areas hit by the March 2011 9.0 magnitude earthquake that triggered a tsunami that killed more than 18,000 people.
President Juan Manuel Santos announced last Saturday that Colombia has diagnosed a total of 3,177 cases of pregnant women with Zika virus, per the Associated Press. The good news is that no microcephaly, a birth defect related to the mosquito-borne disease was recorded.
For most people in the world, the New Year has already been celebrated and welcomed on Jan. 1 but for many members of the fast-growing Asian demographic, the so-called Chinese New Year came on Feb. 8.
While an old cliché says, “Money can’t buy happiness,” Colombians seemed to have proven it false. As a matter of fact, a new study revealed that material things are making them happy. In Medellin, almost 60 percent said their purchases made them happy, while only 26 percent in Bogota.
Haiti once more finds itself in the midst of chaos with no leader in sight. With Haitian President Michel Martelly's farewell speech before a joint session of Parliament on Sunday, the controversial leader effectively ended yet another turbulent chapter in Haiti's political history.
The UN Security Council has called a meeting in order to put end to North Korea's recent rocket launch, said to be a primary test on their ballistic technology.
Volkswagen recently announced a generous compensation to clients who fell victim to their emission scandal, but is not yet final whether they will receive monetary, buy back or replacement as compensation.
Prince Harry has recently charmed schoolchildren when he visited a flood-ravaged town in England on Friday. During his visit at the village of St. Michael’s on Wyre in Lancashire, Prince Harry showed his paternal side when he met and took questions from the schoolchildren. According to People, Kate Middleton’s brother-in-law was there in the rural town to see the “devastating impact” of the flood in the community.
Valentine’s Day is around the corner and businesses around the world are taking advantage of the occasion. They are now busy with stuffing their stores with all sorts of gifts for the “day of hearts.”
Paleobotanists have discovered preserved prehistoric butterfly fossils from two digging sites in Asia which looks quite similar to the modern winged-insects. The butterfly is called kalligrammatid lacewings or Oregramma illecebrosa that lived more than 120 million years ago during the Mesozoic Era.
Latin America, with the countries' advancements in technology and abundance of its resources, is considered to be one of the perfect grounds for many different business opportunities around the globe. Lorena Lopez saw how Latin America could become an asset in the business field so she took advantage of it.
Tupac Shakur's murder case is yet to be solved as it is still unknown on whom the suspect is, but a shocking revelation emerged, putting Sean "Diddy" Combs on murder case.
