KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 2 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and his wife, Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, expressed sympathies to the people of Japan in the Ishikawa region that was struck by an earthquake yesterday.

WELLINGTON, March 5 — The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) of New Zealand on Friday launched the third consecutive tsunami warning after an 8-magnitude quake, the third strong quake overnight, rattled at 8.25am local time at the Kermadec Islands, around 1,100 km north of the North Island of New Zealand.