The Indian rupee is turning a corner, as massive inflows into the nation's stock markets help the currency break past the central bank's intervention barrier.
Long before a deadly flood hit two hydroelectric dams, scientists warned repeatedly that such projects were dangerous in a fragile region made more so by ...
By Alasdair Pal RAINI, India (Reuters) - Growing up in a remote tribal village high in the Indian Himalayas, Kundan Singh loved to play on a field by the sparkling ...
Kundan Singh stands near his home after a flash flood swept down a mountain valley destroying dams and bridges, in Raini village in the northern state of ...
Torrential rains provoke flash flooding with five people dead so far, four of them children. Waters up to 2.5 meters high. Flooded houses and haywire traffic.
Mumbai: The Indian rupee is turning a corner, as massive inflows into the nation's stock markets help the currency break past the central bank's intervention ...
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The Diocese of Bijnor in Uttarakhand remains mobilised to help residents in Chamoli District, devastated by a disaster two weeks ago. Concern is growing about ...
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The digital Foundation Match hosted by the Foundation's social sports schools in Asia-Pacific was a great success. The high level of commitment from the Real ...
Life slows down a lot when monsoonal rains sweep over Australia's tropical north. Local people call the year-end drenching the “Big Wet” and welcome the ...
The newly introduced report namely Global Flood Insurance Market 2020 by Company, Type and Application, Forecast to 2025 focuses on current market tre.
Chamoli, India (CNN) Deep in the Himalayan mountains, Tuskar Singh Rana watched in disbelief as the avalanche roared his way. The deadly mixture of ice, ...
Manila [Philippines], February 21 (ANI/Xinhua): The Philippines have moved over 51000 people to safer grounds as the approaching tropical storm Dujuan ...
Multi-stakeholder partnerships that include displaced people in the process show promise for helping overwhelmed communities deal with an influx of climate...
Industry Growth Insights (IGI) has published the latest report on the Flood Break Automatic Floodgates Market, which offers an in-depth analysis of the ...
Zhou Guanyu, China's best race driver in a generation, notched a significant championship over the weekend in Abu Dhabi. Also in this week's China Sports ...
NEW YORK: The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) on Monday called for urgent efforts to locate a missing vessel carrying Rohingya refugees that has been adrift ...
This year China, Bangladesh, and Vietnam were amongst several Asian countries dealing with millions of displaced people from floods. How can Asian coastal ...
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TOKYO -- A long-standing prediction for the world's most populous region is finally becoming a reality."There's a consistency in the models that clima.
Flood Insurance Market was valued at USD 9.03 Billion in 2019 and is projected to reach USD 27.31 Billion by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 14.84 % from 2020 ...
More than 100 people are dead and thousands of homes have been submerged in some of Vietnam's most severe floods in decades, with authorities warning ...
KATHMANDU/NEW YORK/ DHAKA, 23 July 2020 – Weeks of torrential monsoon rains, widespread flooding and deadly landslides in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India ...
Cyclone Molave – the fourth tropical cyclone to threaten Vietnam this month – is barrelling towards the country's central coast, worsening severe floods and ...
Torrential rains and back-to-back typhoons have ripped through the country in the past two weeks, turning a once picturesque river into a sea of murky brown, ...
New Jersey, United States,- This detailed market research captures the growth potential of Car Flooded Battery Market and can help stakeholders to understand ...
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Nearly 40 people have died in Vietnam and Cambodia and scores more were missing, including rescuers, due to prolonged heavy rain and flash flooding as ...
A pregnant woman who drowned in Vietnam was one of at least 114 people killed in record-breaking floods that have pummeled the country's central coast.
From petitioning to save forests to raising cash for disaster victims, a growing army of K-pop fans worldwide has emerged as the latest force in the global fight ...
Weeks of torrential rains have caused the worst flooding in China in recent decades, destroying the homes and livelihoods of millions of people as the country ...
Flooding in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar and Nepal has killed scores of people, destroyed homes and structures, drowned entire villages, and forced ...
A weeks-long barrage of destructive storms in Southeast Asia has claimed hundreds of lives and is stretching aid funding and disaster responses amid the ...
Floods in South Asia are now an annual event, situations becoming more vicious every year. This year, about a total of 9.6 million people have been affected ...
PHNOM PENH -- It was late at night when water from the engorged Prek Tnaut River started spilling into Yoeu Phally's two-story concrete house on the s.
Unusually intense rainfall has swept away buildings and ruined homes in southern China, affecting about 15 million residents. More downpours are forecast for ...
More than 9.6 million people across South Asia have been affected by severe floods, with hundreds of thousands struggling to get food and medicine, officials ...
The death toll from monsoon floods across South Asia has increased to more than 340 people over recent weeks, with villages still submerged and tens of ...
More than two dozen people have been killed by flooding in South-East Asia with more missing and thousands of homes inundated as tropical storms sweep the ...
SHANGHAI -- Weeks of flooding along the Yangtze River, China's longest waterway, has crippled commodity production, weighing on an economy that has be.
(This story is an IFRC press release issued Wednesday in Kuala Lumpur, Delhi, Dhaka, Kathmandu and Geneva) A humanitarian crisis is deepening in South ...
Another powerful storm is testing Southeast Asian disaster responders after Typhoon Goni crashed into the Philippines on 1 November, before veering towards ...
Severe flooding has forced the evacuation of millions in China and displaced entire communities in Bangladesh as relentless torrential downpours accompany ...
Widespread flooding caused by continuous heavy monsoon rains have been ravaging Asia: Home and farms are under water in Bangladesh and India; Banks of ...
Tens of thousands of troops, police officers and other rescue workers have worked their way through mud and debris in the hardest-hit riverside towns to ...
Qingfeng Zhang is Director of the Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture Division of the Asian Development Bank's East Asia Department.This ye.
Floods hit a region already in the grips of a health emergency due to the new coronavirus pandemic. In Vietnam, the death toll is 90 and at least 34 people are ...
Typhoon Molave made landfall just south of the Vietnamese resort city Da Nang on Wednesday, lashing the coast with powerful rains and winds, and inflicting ...
Guy Carpenter today announced the launch of its new Vietnam Flood Model. The fully probabilistic model provides countrywide coverage and enables insurers ...
The European Union on Tuesday said it is providing 1.65 million euro in humanitarian aid in response to severe flooding that has affected South Asiamost ...
Asia-Pacific has faced a record number of climate-related disasters in 2020, affecting tens of millions of vulnerable people already hit hard by the Covid-19 ...
The waters of China's mighty Yangtze River have inched upward in recent weeks, cresting banks, flooding adjacent land, and displacing millions of people from ...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Leader Kim Jong Un visited parts of southern North Korea where days of torrential rains have flooded hundreds of houses and vast ...
As Indonesia continues to count the number of dead from last week's earthquake on Sulawesi island, search and rescue teams are being stretched to breaking ...
A major typhoon has struck central Viet Nam, affecting millions of people – including about 2.5 million children – in a region already reeling from the effects of ...
Singapore, 2 November 2020 - In response to the storm surges and torrential floods that affected communities in Southeast Asia, the Singapore Red Cross ...
North Korea continues to see historic levels of rainfall, further threatening an economy already battered by a coronavirus-related lockdown. Torrential rains have ...
Severe floods in North Korea have killed at least 22 people and left four others missing, according to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red ...
As if 2020 has not been sufficiently crisis-laden for the People's Republic of China, it now faces the potential for major catastrophe due to massive rains.
At least 43 people, including three children, have died with dozens more feared buried after torrential rains triggered a landslide in the southwestern Indian state ...
The growing impacts of climate change have already pushed more than 18 million people to migrate within South Asian countries, but that could more than triple ...
(This story is an IFRC press release issued in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday.) Rescue and relief efforts have been ramped up as floods submerging large areas of ...
A typhoon that slammed into central Vietnam has set off a series of landslides that buried villages and towns, left more than 60 people dead or missing and ...
Stature matters to plants. Short crops can carry more grain without bending under their own weight—a key trait that helped power the Green Revolution in the ...
In addition to battling its heaviest rainfall in recent years, Bangladesh is also struggling to contain the coronavirus outbreak that has hampered recovery efforts ...