Afghanistan Afghanistan has suffered appallingly through 19 years of civil war and subsequently has some of the worst indicators of human development in the world. The Taliban, an Islamic...
Afghanistan + 7 more
Afghanistan + 7 more
Afghanistan Afghanistan has suffered appallingly through 19 years of civil war and subsequently has some of the worst indicators of human development in the world. The Taliban, an Islamic...
Heavy rains in late October, affected the maturing (main) rice crop somewhat. Main rice is mainly planted around May/June for harvest in Oct/Nov. The procurement price of paddy has been increased to...
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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...
Cambodia + 3 more
IP/99/675 Brussels, 14 September 1999 - The European Commission has approved a total of euro 3.1 million worth of humanitarian aid, euro 1.1 million for China and euro 2 million for South East Asia...
Appeal Target: US$ 79,555 Geneva, 20 August 1999 Dear Friends, A wide swathe of devastating rains swept across Asia at the end of July and first week of August this year. This weather aberration did...
Bangladesh + 5 more
Geneva, 16 August 1999 Over the past few weeks, ACT Members have been reporting on the extensive inundations across Europe, Asia and even Africa. AFRICA Sudan Sudan Council of Churches informs ACT...
Philippines + 3 more
The Disaster Continuous monsoon rains since late July 1999, which meteorologists say are the heaviest in three decades, caused floods that seriously affected the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia and...
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Flood alarm in Sudan Severe flooding in Sudan, caused by unusually heavy and early rains, has left at least 22 people dead, destroyed or damaged more than 10,000 homes and left 50,000 people in...
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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...
Ref: OCHA/GVA 99/0108 Philippines - Floods OCHA Situation Report No. 2 11 August 1999 General situation 1. On 8 August 1999, the National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) in Manila provided...
Manila (dpa) - Rescuers said Tuesday chances of finding more survivors from a collapsed residential subdivision east of Manila were already ''very slim'' as the death toll from the Philippines' worst...
A Philippines presidential committee said a Japanese-Filipino developer ignored danger signs which led to a landslide that killed more than 70 people at a housing estate outside Manila last week. The...
MANILA (Aug. 7) XINHUA - Flood waters continued rising as of late Saturday morning in many towns in Central Luzon, the Northern Philippines, despite improved weather condition in the region since...
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The annual monsoons - from Korea to Bangladesh - have driven millions of people from their homes. Michael Baker, Special to The Christian Science Monitor MUNSAN, SOUTH KOREA - Kim San Ok abandoned...
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The combined death tolls from floods in east and South-East Asia, including China, have now passed 1,000, with other fatalities in South Korea, Japan, Thailand and the Philippines. Rescue workers in...
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By Paul Eckert BEIJING, Aug 4 (Reuters) - China nearly doubled the official death toll from summer flooding to 725 on Thursday, as South Korea braced for another typhoon and hopes all but vanished...
By Pedro Uchi MANILA, Aug 5 (Reuters) - More than 100 people are feared dead in one of the Philippines' worst floods in years as hopes faded on Thursday for dozens believed buried under the wreckage...
Ref: OCHA/GVA - 99/0103 Philippines - Floods OCHA Situation Report No. 1 5 August 1999 General situation 1. On 5 August 1999, the National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) in Manila reports...
Cambodia + 4 more
Tens of thousands of people have been left homeless, not just in China, but throughout the region. The heaviest monsoon rains in three decades have caused extensive flooding in South East Asia...
Manila (dpa) - The death toll in one of the Philippines' worst floods in 25 years has risen to 44 after 50 houses in a hilly village east of Manila collapsed due to a landslide, the defence secretary...