Posts Tagged ‘Asia’

The death toll from the onslaught of tropical storm Bebeng climbed to 13, based on reports received by the national disaster agency as of 5 p.m. Monday. Nine of the fatalities were from Bicol (Region V) which was the worst hit by the heavy rains unleashed by Bebeng, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction [...]

BUTUAN CITY,PHILIPPINES (MindaNews/06 January) – Seventeen of the 25 persons nationwide who died from drowning or landslides brought about by flash floods spawned by heavy rains since Sunday were from Mindanao, the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council reported in its 6 a.m. January 6 update. A total of 467,916 persons in 586 barangays were [...]

Super Typhoon Megi has slammed ashore along the Philippines’ north-eastern coast with ferocious winds of 140mph – the strongest cyclone to hit the country in years. Thousands sought shelter while authorities warned millions of residents and rice farmers along the typhoon’s path to look out for damage to crops, homes and power lines.

Torrential rain striking wide areas of China during the summer rainy season has taken at least 3,185 lives by way of flooding and landslides according to a report by China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs. A further 1,060 people were said to be missing. Hardest-hit provinces were Gansu, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Jilin, Jiangxi and Hubei. The assessment [...]

BEIJING, China—At least 127 people were killed and nearly 1,300 missing Sunday after mudslides swept away homes and destroyed roads in northwestern China as the nation battled its worst flooding in a decade. At least one village was buried entirely and deep rivers of sludge and rocks were hampering rescue efforts in the devastated region [...]

Chanthu wound into a typhoon shortly before storming ashore in south China near 2 p.m. Thursday, local time, and well before daybreak on Thursday morning, EDT. Landfall was near Wuchuan in southwestern Guangdong, within about 40 miles east of the city of Zhanjiang.

DHAKA (AFP) – At least 17 people were killed and scores injured by lightning as a series of minor tropical storms and heavy rains swept across Bangladesh, police said Sunday. Six people were killed in the northeastern district of Habiganj, 75 miles (120 kilometres) from capital Dhaka, and four more died in the southern district [...]

BEIJING (Reuters) – A choking sandstorm and heavy snow have severed a vital air link to the remote quake-hit Chinese county of Yushu, severely affecting relief efforts, state media said on Sunday. An earthquake earlier this month in Yushu, high on the Tibetan plateau in western Qinghai province, killed more than 2,000 people and left [...]

A dust storm has provided some relief from the three day heat wave blighting northern and eastern India. Starting in Rajasthan the dust storm, spread to the whole of the northern region during the day, bringing down temperatures. Daytime temperatures are likely to fall by 1-3C over the next few days thanks to the haze [...]

Fifty people have died and 385 injured in Saudi Arabia following heavy rains and flooding over the past four days, a senior official has confirmed. Major General Sulaiman Bin Abdul Rahman Al-Ajlan, director of the Traffic General Administration, warned motorists to drive carefully after 4,596 traffic accidents were recorded due to the wet weather, the [...]