China is the largest developing country in the world with a vast territory and nearly 1.3 billion people. Great differences in climate are found from region to region owing to China's extensive...
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China is the largest developing country in the world with a vast territory and nearly 1.3 billion people. Great differences in climate are found from region to region owing to China's extensive...
Now that the floodwaters have finally receded, many evacuees have returned home, to rebuild and cultivate their fields. In the four worst-hit provinces, the target of the Federation operation, people...
The International Federation of the Red Cross says about 10-thousand people are still homeless as winter approaches in areas of eastern China, devastated by floods along the Yangtze River. Most of...
Appeal no. 17/99 period covered: 12 - 26 October 1999 Efforts to mitigate the long-term effects of the floods continue, while essential relief items procured and transported by the Red Cross Society...
Field delegates of the International Federation working in China, together with colleagues from the Red Cross Society of China and its branches, have carried out field missions to the four provinces ...
Ref:GVA/99/0159 China - Floods OCHA Situation Report No. 4 24 September 1999 1. On 17 September 1999, the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the People's Republic of China reported through the Office of...
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Bruxelles, le 14 septembre 1999 La Commission européenne a approuvé une aide humanitaire d'un montant total de 3,1 millions d'euros destinée à la Chine (1,1 million d'euros) et à l'Asie du Sud-Est (2...
Cynthia Long, Staff Writer, DisasterRelief.org When days of heavy summer monsoon rains in Anhui Province ruptured a dike on Lake Nan-Yi last July, raging waters deluged the surrounding countryside...
On 13 August devastating flash floods swept through the city of Chen Zhou in southern Hunan, claiming the lives of 70 people and leaving more than 80 seriously injured. More than 18,400 people were...
MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS ALEXANDER DOWNER AA 56 8 September 1999 AUSTRALIAN ASSISTANCE FOR FLOOD PREVENTION IN CHINA I am pleased to announce a package of emergency and longer term assistance for...
appeal no. 17/99 situation report no. 3 period covered: 18-31 August 1999 While assessments indicate that the level of destruction caused by this year's floods in China are less than those of 1998,...
appeal no: 17/99 (preliminary appeal 4 August 1999) THIS APPEAL SEEKS CHF 10,200,000 IN CASH AND SERVICES TO ASSIST 1,000,000 BENEFICIARIES FOR 4 MONTHS This Appeal replaces the Preliminary Appeal...
"The most severely affected victims of this year's disaster have experienced flooding three to five years in a row, and have ended up in a poverty trap." Those were the words of Dr Stefan Seebacher,...
Beijing-Geneva, 24 August 1999 - The most severely affected victims of this year's disaster have experienced flooding three to five years in a row, and have ended up in a poverty trap", says Dr...
From WEEKLY NEWS 32/99 Yan Qingxi, 48, was a farmer as recently as six weeks ago until heavy rains caused a 15-metre high dike to collapse on lake Nan-Yi. Luckily, Mr. Yan, his wife and four children...
BEIJING (Aug. 18) XINHUA - Thanks to its all-out nationwide water conservancy construction, China has suffered less losses from flooding this year despite higher water levels in some parts of the...
appeal no. 17/99 situation report no. 2 period covered: 11 - 17 August 1999 As floods threaten to spread further, the Red Cross of China and the Federation have despatched assessment teams to the...
Government authorities and aid agencies in China have begun warning millions of locals to prepare for fresh flooding along the Yellow River. The warnings after last year's flood disaster which...
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SITUATION: Heavy monsoon rains have devastated large sections of East Asia this summer, causing more than 800 deaths and destroying or damaging millions of homes. In the Philippines heavy monsoon...
appeal no. 17/99 situation report no. 1 period covered: 4 - 10 August 1999 Since the launch of the Federation Appeal, the flood situation in China continues to be alarming. Up to 100 million people...