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Japan will send a medical team to the Philippines to assist the hard-hit area, where powerful typhoon "Haiyan" has left hundreds of people dead, local media reported.
A man has handed himself in to police and is being questioned after a fatal stabbing in Sydney's east, the New South Wales Police said on Monday.
Thousands of people have attended the ceremonies to commemorate the 95th Remembrance Day across Queensland, Austrlia, paying their respects to Australian soldiers who died in war, local media reported Monday.
Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the proper handling of the border issue between China and India is key for the maintenance of peace and stability in the border areas between the two countries.
Rescue workers struggled to reach ravaged towns and villages in the central Philippines on Monday as they tried to deliver aid to survivors of a powerful typhoon.
Typhoon Haiyan has landed in Vietnam 's northeastern province of Quang Ninh some 120 km east of capital Hanoi, Vietnamese and Chinese observatories reported early Monday morning.
One of the most powerful storms ever recorded killed at least 10,000 people in the central Philippines, a senior police official said on Sunday.
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said here Saturday that up to 1.7 million Philippine children could be affected by super typhoon Haiyan, which tore through the country over the last 48 hours.
A 5.5-magnitude quake hit Ibaraki prefecture in Japan at 7:38 local time Sunday, with strong tremor felt in Kanto area, including Tokyo, according Japan's Meteorological Agency
Super Typhoon Haiyan devastated the central Philippines, killing more than 1,000 people in one city alone and 200 in another province, the Red Cross estimated on Saturday.
An Indonesian army helicopter with 19 people on board crashed on Saturday in Malinau in North Kalimantan, killing 13 people and seriously injuring 6 others.
Vietnam's central areas have braced for the Super Typhoon Haiyan, the strongest storm ever hitting the country.