Seven Falun Gong practitioners were arrested while doing exercises and displaying posters in a local park in Singapore.
Undersea earthquakes caused panic in the South Pacific on Thursday.
Typhoon Melor is nearing Japan, threatening heavily populated industrial centres with rain and winds.
Tokyo governor blames behind-the-scenes political deals for the city's failed bid to host the 2016 Olympics.
Indonesians dig a pit for a mass burial in Padang while villagers continue to dig in mud for landslide victims.
Rescue teams found entire villages obliterated by landslides and survivors desperate for aid three days after the quake.
A powerful typhoon slammed into the Philippines, killing four people, tearing roofs off houses and uprooting trees.
"Please help, I'm trapped, my position is in the house by the stairs."
The Philippines declared a nationwide state of calamity after typhoon and floods killed nearly 300 people.
Aid for thousands of survivors of an earthquake in the Indonesia port of Padang began trickling in on Friday.