As millions across Southeast Asia suffer a blistering heatwave that is melting railway tracks, a Thai village resorted to an unusual method to seek rain: parading a Japanese cartoon cat.In the kingdom's central Nakhon Sawan province which has been without rain for months villagers in Phayuha Khiri District hoisted Japanese manga cat Doraemon to break the drought.
Kids study in overheated slum as Philippines shuts schools - Top Stories - MANILA: Fourth-grader Ella Araza sat on a tiny plastic box in her Manila slum home, trying to finish her homework before the afternoon sun sent temperatures so.