China: Floods - Jul 2003 Updates

Appeal target: CHF 762,888 (USD 524,000 or EUR 517,000) Period covered: June to November 2003 The Federation's mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilising the power of...

Appeal target: CHF 3,564,329 (USD 2,442,454 or EUR 2,422,114) Period covered: June - November 2003 The Federation's mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilising the power of...

Appeal launched on 22 July 2003 for CHF 7,932,000(USD 5,770,000 or EUR 5,120,000) in cash, kind or services to assist 440,000 beneficiaries for 9 months. Disaster Relief Emergency Funds (DREF)...

IP/03/1592 Brussels, 24 November 2003 - The European Commission has recently pledged to provide humanitarian aid for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (€4.5 million), Georgia (€2.2 million),...

Appeal Target: CHF 3,400,000 (USD 2,446,214 or EUR 2,336,657) Period covered: July - Sept, 2003 The Federation's mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of...

BEIJING, Oct. 28 (Xinhuanet) -- Hundreds of thousands of rural residents in northwest China's Shaanxi Province have become homeless due to collapse of their hillside cave dwellings or houses,...

by Susan Liu, of International Federation, and Jianyang Gou, Chinese Red Cross At least 6.3 million people have been left homeless by floods since May this year in China. And the situation doesn't...

Appeal launched on 22 July 2003 for CHF 7,932,000 (USD 5,770,000 or EUR 5,120,000) in cash, kind or services to assist 440,000 beneficiaries for 9 months. Disaster Relief Emergency Funds (DREF)...

GA/10176 Fifty-eighth General Assembly Plenary 37th Meeting (AM) The progress made over the last year to revitalize the activities of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), particularly with...

Appeal launched on 22 July 2003 for CHF 7,932,000(USD 5,770,000 or EUR 5,120,000) in cash, kind or services to assist 440,000 beneficiaries for 9 months. Disaster Relief Emergency Funds (DREF)...

Beijing (dpa) - China's death toll from floods this year has reached 1,208, state media reported on Thursday, as areas along the Yellow river continued the alert. Natural disasters have killed 1,911...

BEIJING, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Floods in northern China triggered by weeks of heavy rain have killed 29 people and destroyed tens of thousands of homes with no let-up in sight, a local official said on...

BEIJING, Oct. 7 (Xinhuanet) -- Flooding from the Yellow River has so far impacted at least 100,000 villagers in Henan and Shandong provinces. Over the weekend, the ministries of finance and civil...

by Ma Wenbo of the Red Cross Society of China, in Henan province Flooding is a recurring disaster in China. But this year, the flood season has been uncharacteristically long. Where floods normally...