Nepal earthquake
1 e April 2015 Nepal earthquake killed over 9,000
people and injured more than 23,000.
t was the worst natural disaster to strike Nepal
since the 1934, The earthquake was also
experienced across southwestern China, ranging
from the Tibet Autonomous Region to Chengdu,
which is 1,900 km (1,200 mi) away from the
epicenter.
Super typhoon” Dujuan
• September 2015 “Super typhoon” Dujuan was swirling towards
Taiwan on Monday, with thousands of people evacuated from
outlying islands as the storm gathered strength on its approach.
Almost 3,000 people, most of them tourists, were evacuated on
Sunday from Taiwan’s Green Island and Orchid Island, a location
popular with visitors
Air pollution
• 3 A thick cloud of toxic smog
which was more than 50 times
the recommended health limits
has blanketed northeast China,
in what appears the worst bout
of pollution in the notoriously
hazy country on record. Levels of
poisonous airborne particles
known as PM 2.5 reached 1,157
micrograms per cubic metre on
Sunday in Shenyang
Tian jing (天津) explision
• A series of explosions that killed over one hundred people and injured hundreds of
others occurred at a container storage station at the Port of Tianjin on Wednesday, 12
August 2015. The first two explosions occurred within 30 seconds of each other at the
facility, which is located in the Binhai New Area of Tianjin, China.[3][4] Fires caused by
the initial explosions continued to burn uncontrolled throughout the weekend,
repeatedly causing secondary explosions, with eight additional explosions occurring on
Saturday, 15 August.
• As of 12 September 2015, the official casualty report was 173 deaths,[1] 8 missing, and
797 non-fatal injuries.
Chinese prisident visited The U.S
• 1 Xi Jinping who is Chinese president is on his first state visit to the
United States .Sept. 22 President Xi Jinping is expected to arrive in
Seattle on Tuesday .Sept. 24 Xi arrives in the US capital,
Washington.Sept. 25 Xi will be greeted by a 21-gun salute at the
White House and hold a joint press conference with Obama.Sept. 26
Xi arrives in New York .Sept. 28 Xi will give his first speech at the
70th United Nations General Assembly.
Chinese prisidnet visted the British
• 2 Xi jingping who is Chinese
president visited the British in
2015 Oct -20 Chinese President Xi
Jinping addressed both houses of
the British Parliament on Tuesday
afternoon as he and his wife began
a four-day visit that has aroused
concern among human rights
activists.
Burma election
• : Aung San Suu Kyi casts vote in first free election for 25 years。70year old Aung San Suu Kyi from the National League for Democracy
Party votes in Myanmar's first free election for 25 years
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River
volga river
• is the longest river in Europe; it is also Europe's largest river in terms
of discharge and watershed. It flows through central Russia and into
the Caspian Sea, and is widely viewed as the national river of Russia.
• also is the world largest interior river
mekong
• The Mekong is a trans-boundary river in Southeast Asia. It is the world's 12th-longest river[2] and
the 7th-longest in Asia. Its estimated length is 4,350 km (2,703 mi),[2] and it drains an area of
795,000 km2 (307,000 sq mi), discharging 457 km3 (110 cu mi) of water annually.[3]
• From the Tibetan Plateau the river runs through China's Yunnan province, Myanmar, Laos,
Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. In 1995, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam established the
Mekong River Commission to assist in the management and coordinated use of the Mekong's
resources. In 1996 China and Burma (Myanmar) became "dialogue partners" of the MRC and the
six countries now work together within a cooperative framework.
• The extreme seasonal variations in flow and the presence of rapids and waterfalls in the Mekong
make navigation difficult. Even so, the river is a major trade route between western China and
Southeast Asia.
Chang jiang yangtze river
• The Yangtze River (English pronunciation: /ˈjæŋtsi/ or /ˈjɑːŋtsi/),
(Chinese: 长江, Cháng Jiāng), known in China as the Chang Jiang or
the Yangzi, is the longest river in Asia and the third-longest in the
world. It flows for 6,300 kilometers (3,915 mi) from the glaciers on
the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in Qinghai eastward across southwest,
central and eastern China before emptying into the East China Sea at
Shanghai.
The Ganges
• also Ganga (Hindustani: [ˈɡəŋɡaː]) is a trans-boundary river of Asia
which flows through the nations of India and Bangladesh. The 2,525
km (1,569 mi) river rises in the western Himalayas in the Indian state
of Uttarakhand, and flows south and east through the Gangetic Plain
of North India into Bangladesh, where it empties into the Bay of
Bengal. It is the third largest river by discharge
• The Ganges was ranked as the fifth most polluted river of the world in
2007. Pollution threatens not only humans, but also more than 140
fish species
The Caspian Sea
• is the largest enclosed inland body of water on Earth by area,
variously classed as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea.[2][3]
The sea has a surface area of 371,000 km2.
• t he ancient inhabitants of its coast perceived the Caspian Sea as an
ocean, probably because of its saltiness and large size. It has a salinity
of approximately 1.2% (12 g/l), about a third of the salinity of most
seawater.
Lake Baikal
• Lake Baikal is the largest (by volume)
freshwater lake in the world, containing
roughly 20% of the world's unfrozen
surface fresh water.[4][5] With a
maximum depth of 1,642 m (5,387 ft),[1]
Baikal is the world's deepest lake.[6] It is
considered among the world's clearest[7]
lakes and is considered the world's oldest
lake[8] — at 25 million years.[9] It is the
seventh-largest lake in the world by
surface area. With 23,615.39 km3 (5,700
cu mi) of fresh water,[1] it contains more
water than all the North American Great
Lakes combined
Suez Canal
• an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the
Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea. Opened 17 November 1869, after
10 years of construction, it allows ships to travel between Europe and
South Asia without navigating around Africa thereby reducing the sea
voyage distance between Europe and India by about 7,000 kilometres
• the bountary between Asia and affrica
Mountain
Tibetan plateau
• t stretches approximately 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) north to south
and 2,500 kilometres (1,600 mi) east to west. With an average
elevation exceeding 4,500 metres (14,800 ft), the Tibetan Plateau is
sometimes called "the Roof of the World" and is the world's highest
and largest plateau, with an area of 2,500,000 square kilometres
• Also include the highest mountain Himalayas the Elevation 8,848 m
(29,029 ft)
Greater Caucasus
• The range stretches for about 1,200 kilometres (750 mi) from westnorthwest to east-southeast, between the Taman Peninsula of the
Black Sea to the Absheron Peninsula of the Caspian Sea: from the
Western Caucasus in the vicinity of Sochi on the northeastern shore
of the Black Sea and reaching nearly to Baku on the Caspian.
• the boudary between Asia and Europe
Strait
Hormuz Strait
• is a strait between the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf. It is the only sea passage from the
Persian Gulf to the open ocean and is one of the world's most strategically important choke points.
On the north coast is Iran, and on the south coast is the United Arab Emirates and Musandam, an
exclave of Oman. At its narrowest, the strait is 29 nautical miles (54 km)
• About 20% of the world's petroleum, and about 35% of the petroleum traded by sea, passes
through the strait making it a highly important strategic location for international trade.[1]
Strait of Malacca
• stretch of water between the
Malay Peninsula (Peninsular
Malaysia) and the Indonesian
island of Sumatra.
• one of the most busy channel
• japan's lifeline