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'World's smallest' melon cultivated in Japan's Inland Sea

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Yoshikiyo Kawai, chairman of the tourism association of Megi Island in Kagawa Prefecture, shows off what are said to be the world's smallest melons, cultivated by the inhabitants of the Seto Inland Sea island, in Takamatsu on Sept. 4, 2009.

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Death toll in Philippines from storm Megi further to 56

STORY: Death toll in Philippines from storm Megi further to 56 DATELINE: April 13, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:32 LOCATION: Manila CATEGORY: OTHERS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the floods STORYLINE: The death toll from the tropical storm that battered the Philippines last weekend rose to 56, including the 47 buried by landslides in the central Philippines, authorities said on Wednesday. As of Wednesday morning, Baybay City Mayor Jose Carlos Cari said rescuers retrieved 47 bodies from the mud that covered 10 villages in Leyte province. "Some of the bodies were retrieved, and some were washed out in the shoreline," he told a local television interview, adding that 12 more are missing in two villages. He said social workers are doing a headcount to determine the number of residents missing in one riverside village that was heavily destroyed by the mudslide early Sunday morning. Cari said the affected villages are near rice paddies. "The soil was fully saturated, so the mud reached the villages," he said. The

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PHILIPPINES-CAPIZ-STORM MEGI-FLOOD

(220412) -- CAPIZ, April 12, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Members of the Philippine Coast Guard rescue residents from the flood in a town in Capiz Province, the Philippines, on April 12, 2022. A tropical storm triggered floods and landslides in the Philippines over the weekend, leaving at least 24 dead and several more missing, officials said on Monday. (Philippine Coast Guard/Handout via Xinhua)

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PHILIPPINES-CAPIZ-STORM MEGI-FLOOD

(220412) -- CAPIZ, April 12, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Members of the Philippine Coast Guard rescue residents from the flood in a town in Capiz Province, the Philippines, on April 12, 2022. A tropical storm triggered floods and landslides in the Philippines over the weekend, leaving at least 24 dead and several more missing, officials said on Monday. (Philippine Coast Guard/Handout via Xinhua)

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PHILIPPINES-CAPIZ-STORM MEGI-FLOOD

(220412) -- CAPIZ, April 12, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Members of the Philippine Coast Guard rescue residents from the flood in a town in Capiz Province, the Philippines, on April 12, 2022. A tropical storm triggered floods and landslides in the Philippines over the weekend, leaving at least 24 dead and several more missing, officials said on Monday. (Philippine Coast Guard/Handout via Xinhua)

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Tropical storm Megi leaves 24 dead in Philippines

STORY: Tropical storm Megi leaves 24 dead in Philippines DATELINE: April 12, 2022 LENGTH: 00:03:07 LOCATION: Manila CATEGORY: OTHERS SHOTLIST: 1. various of flooded sites in Leyte STORYLINE: A tropical storm triggered floods and landslides in the Philippines over the weekend, leaving at least 24 dead and several others missing, officials said on Monday. The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) reported three dead and at least one missing in the southern Philippines. The council is verifying deaths reported in the central Philippines. The emergency response unit of Baybay City in the central Leyte province said rescuers have dug up at least 21 bodies from 10 villages buried in massive mudslides. A spokesman for the rescue team told Xinhua on condition of anonymity that the retrieval operation is ongoing, adding that more people were believed still buried under the mud. Landslide survivors were recuperating in a city hospital. A government disaster agency said Trop

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'World's smallest' melon cultivated in Japan's Inland Sea

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Yoshikiyo Kawai, chairman of the tourism association of Megi Island in Kagawa Prefecture, shows off what are said to be the world's smallest melons, cultivated by the inhabitants of the Seto Inland Sea island, in Takamatsu on Sept. 4, 2009. (Kyodo)