October 7, 2011
This picture, taken on October 5, shows a Vietnamese farmer showing a damaged sheaf of rice at his flooded rice field in Vinh Dien Commune, Giang Thanh District, Kien Giang Province of Vietnam's Mekong Delta. Massive floods have ravaged vast swathes of Asia’s rice bowl, threatening to further drive up food prices and adding to [...]
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April 23, 2011
This photo, provided by Philippine Military, shows an aerial shot of a landslide that occurred in the isolated town of Kingking, in a mountainous area of the resource-rich but poor and violence-plagued southern island of Mindanao. Rescuers clawed through dirt in a desperate search for survivors a day after a landslide buried workers in mining [...]
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November 11, 2010
Hoa Thinh Commune in the central province of Phu Yen was flooded on Tuesday. Another round of flooding triggered by heavy rains over the weekend has killed at least 27 people and left another two missing in the beleagured central region as of Tuesday. Â Floods have also injured seven people, damaged nearly 28,000 houses [...]
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January 21, 2010
At least two people died and 66 boats sunk in the central province of Binh Thuan during a tropical depression Wednesday, a rarity in Vietnam this time of year, the provincial weather agency reported. Preliminary statistics showed that the depression formed in the East Sea on Monday caused over VND4 billion (US$216,579) in losses when [...]
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October 27, 2009
Ho Chi Minh Highway opens for traffic after floods; Vietnam launches second foreign affairs TV program; University students, youth detained in peer killing; Qualcomm launches computer labs project to help rural schools Ho Chi Minh Highway opens for traffic after floods Flooding in northern central rivers receded to a level 1 on October 25 with [...]
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October 19, 2009
A flooded street after heavy reain caused by a tropical low last week in Quang Ngai Province A tropical low that formed in the East Sea on Friday is causing torrential rain and flooding in central provinces, according to the national weather forecasting center. Statistics gathered on Sunday showed rainfall of 497 millimeters in Quang [...]
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September 27, 2009
Heavy rains and flooding have isolated thousands of people in the north-central province of Ha Tinh. Several north-central communes are completely isolated as floods have downed all local transportation and communications infrastructure, while meteorologists predicted a new storm would hit the East Sea soon. More than 4,000 people in the ten low-lying communes of Vu [...]
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September 27, 2009
Heavy rains brought by tropical storm “Ondoy” flooded Philippine capital Manila and its sounding areas, causing some domestic flights to get canceled and traffic paralyzed on Saturday. A Filipino pushes his tricycle in a flooded street in Metro Manila, capital of the Philippines, Sept. 26, 2009. Typhoon Ondoy made landfall in the eastern coast of [...]
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September 17, 2009
Seven people have been killed and four others remain missing as typhoon Koppu slammed its way into south China’s Guangdong Province. A person clears away the wreckage at the site where a vessel collided onto the bank as an aftermath of the gales and heavy rains brought by the tropical storm Koppu inside Xiangzhou Fishery [...]
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September 16, 2009
Preventing flash floods and landslides a priority; 1.64 million to get vocational training in 2009-2010; Senior Vietnamese officials learn about int’l press; Joint effort needed to prevent climate change; Preventing flash floods and landslides a priority Although the storm has not directly hit Vietnam, it will cause heavy rains in the northern border provinces. Local [...]
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