Islamabad: Pakistan needs around $840 million to meet the requirements of 7.2 million people affected by floods and insecurity, the UN said on Sunday. The "Early Recovery Framework" programme launched jointly by the UN and the government in February includes building resilience against future crises by developing early warning systems and constructing homes which will withstand natural disasters, Online news agency reported. Insecurity in the northwest Federally Administered Tribal Areas...
10:38 PM, Apr 29, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A three-member ministerial team on Tuesday visited the places in the city which had borne the brunt of the flash floods that followed heavy rains on the night of December 30. The cabinet sub-committee team, consisting of Revenue Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan, PWD Minister V K Ebrahim Kunju and Transport Minister V S Sivakumar, visited the flash flood- affected areas in Jagathy, Killipalam and Maruthankuzhi. The team will submit a...
09:03 AM, Jan 11, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Amayizhanjan canal is not only a notorious dumping space, but is also the ideal location to put the blame for the flash floods in the city.By pointing to the totally blocked canal, the authorities can easily wash off their sins of allowing encroachments over culverts, the major lifelines in the city. Years old culverts at various points are either partially or totally blocked owing to encroachments, making the...
09:06 AM, Jan 03, 2012
Iligan: Philippine President Benigno Aquino ordered an investigation on Tuesday into flash floods and landslides that sent mud and logs crashing down on residents, killing about 1,000 people on a southern island. The national disaster agency said 957 were killed and 49 missing on Mindanao after Typhoon Washi triggered the slides. Most of the casualties were in the cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan and tens of thousands remain...
02:04 AM, Dec 21, 2011
Cagayan De Oro: Rescuers searched for more than 800 people missing in the southern Philippines on Sunday after flash floods and landslides swept houses into rivers and out to sea, killing more than 650 people in areas ill-prepared to cope with storms. Cagayan de Oro and nearby Iligan cities on Mindanao island were worst hit when Typhoon Washi slammed ashore while people slept late on Friday and early Saturday, sending...
04:07 PM, Dec 18, 2011
Seoul: Samsung Electronics' president expected Thailand floods to further hit the computer memory chip market by hurting PC production until the first quarter of next year. The flooding since July hit production of hard disk drives (HDD) in the world's No.2 producer of the major PC component, compounding the woes of the PC industry, already struggling with a slowing economy and a challenge from smartphones and tablets. Samsung is the...
09:06 AM, Oct 30, 2011
Bangkok: Receding floodwaters north of Bangkok have reduced the threat to the Thai capital, the Prime Minister said on Saturday, but a rise in coastal high tides in the Gulf of Thailand will still test the city's flood defences. "If things go on like this, we expect floodwater in Bangkok to recede within the first week of November," Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said on national television. Bangkok's main waterway, the...
11:55 AM, Oct 29, 2011
San Francisco: Prices for hard drives are jumping as flooding in Thailand creates a shortage of the major component used in personal computers and one big customer is complaining of price gouging. Drive manufacturers have raised prices by 20 to 40 per cent and international electronics distributor Avnet Inc in turn has raised its prices by a similar amount after water poured into factories this month, said Avnet Senior Vice...
10:38 AM, Oct 29, 2011
Bangkok: Traffic clogged roads out of Bangkok on Friday as thousands of people fled ahead of a high tide expected to worsen floods that have inundated factories and prompted foreign governments to warn citizens to stay away from one of Asia's biggest cities. Authorities have expressed concern that Bangkok's main Chao Phraya River will burst its banks over the weekend during the unusually high tide that begins on Friday. Buildings...
11:50 AM, Oct 28, 2011
Hong Kong: Lenovo Group Ltd said on Wednesday that it expected some constraints on hard disk drive supplies through the first quarter of next year after severe floods in Thailand crimped global supply. Asia's PC makers have been suffering from a double whammy of an expected weak demand during the year-end holiday season and concerns over components shortage in coming months as the floods submerged Thailand's industrial parks, analysts said....
10:09 AM, Oct 27, 2011
Bangkok: Floodwaters inched closer to a terminal at the Thai capital's second largest airport on Wednesday, leading many who had sought refuge at a shelter there to flee amid warnings that parts of Bangkok could be inundated by up to 5 feet (1.5 meters) of water. The flooding at Don Muang airport, which is primarily used for now-grounded domestic flights, is one of the biggest blows yet to government efforts...
01:54 PM, Oct 26, 2011
Bangkok: The government expressed confidence on Sunday that Bangkok will escape Thailand's worst flooding in decades, as the capital's elaborate barriers held strong and floodwaters receded from submerged plains to the north. Agriculture Minister Theera Wongsamut said the largest mass of runoff water flowing southward had passed through Bangkok's Chao Phraya river and into the Gulf of Thailand, and that the river's levels would rise no higher. He stopped short...
02:21 PM, Oct 16, 2011
Bangkok: Rescue workers scrambled to reinforce make-shift walls and sand-bags around Bangkok on Saturday as the worst floods in half-a-century threatened Thailand's low-lying capital after swamping entire villages in the north. Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has sought to reassure Bangkok's 12 million people they should largely escape floods that have covered a third of the country since July, killing at least 289 people and causing about $ 3 billion in...
02:04 PM, Oct 15, 2011
Pathum Thani: Thailand raced on Tuesday to build floodwalls on the outskirts of Bangkok to prevent the worst floods in half a century from inundating parts of the capital later this week when water flowing from the north reaches the low-lying city. At least 269 people have been killed by heavy monsoon rains, floods and mudslides that have battered 27 of Thailand's 77 provinces since late July, according to the...
01:07 PM, Oct 11, 2011
Manila, Philippines: Rescuers scrambled on Sunday to deliver food and water to hundreds of villagers stuck on rooftops for days because of flooding in the northern Philippines, where back-to-back typhoons have left at least 59 people dead. Typhoon Nalgae slammed ashore in northeastern Isabela province on Saturday, then barreled across the main island of Luzon's mountainous north and agricultural plains, which were still sodden from fierce rain and winds unleashed...
10:59 PM, Oct 02, 2011
Manila: Back-to-back typhoons left at least 55 people dead and rescuers scrambling on Sunday to deliver food and water to hundreds of villagers stuck on rooftops for four days because of flooding in the northern Philippines. Typhoon Nalgae slammed ashore in northeastern Isabela province on Saturday then barreled across the main Luzon Island's mountainous north and agricultural plains that were still sodden from fierce rain and wind unleashed by a...
12:18 PM, Oct 02, 2011
Manila: Manila residents waded through waist-deep floodwaters, dodging branches and flying debris on Tuesday as a powerful typhoon sent surging waves as tall as palm trees crashing over seawalls and submerging entire neighbourhoods. At least seven people were killed, most of them in metropolitan Manila, which already was soaked by heavy monsoon rains ahead of Typhoon Nesat's arrival and where the old town areas by the bay suffered their worst...
02:18 PM, Sep 27, 2011
New Delhi: Just days after a massive earthquake hit Sikkim, the northeastern state was on Thursday hit by flash floods. The flash floods hit Lachung, located in north Sikkim district near China border, damaging at least two houses, including one Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) camp. As many as 100 people have been stranded due to the flash floods that occurred on Thursday. Meanwhile, rescue operations are on in the quake-hit...
01:21 PM, Sep 22, 2011
Islamabad: Members of Pakistan's minority communities affected by the devastating floods across Sindh province have complained that they are being denied aid by religious and charitable organisations engaged in relief operations. Members of the under-privileged scheduled castes are among those who say that organisations conducting relief efforts have been discriminating against them. Mohan Kolhi, a community chief living near Khoski town in Badin district, said a religious organisation set up...
02:05 PM, Sep 14, 2011
Kendrapara (Orissa): About 80 persons including some orphan children and elderly persons are stranded in a flooded village of Kendrapara district since the past two days. The orphanage housing them in Patalipanka village has been marooned and is completely swamped by flood water from one of the tributaries of river Mahanadi. "The stranded inmates at the centre are safe. We are planning to evacuate them from the flooded shelter home,"...
04:13 PM, Sep 13, 2011
