Thai PM Paetongtarn denies ignoring southern flood victims
She said she could not travel to the deep South to oversee flood mitigation herself because she had to attend mobile Cabinet meetings in Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai, and those…
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136,000+ families in 7 southern provinces in Thailand hit by heavy flooding
In its latest update at 11am on Thursday, the department said 1,884 villages in 50 districts of Surat Thani, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Songkhla, Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat and Satun…
Malaysia warns of worst flooding in a decade as monsoon season hits; 63,000 in shelters
The warning came after Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim told Parliament on the morning of Nov 28 that 37,000 people – 80 per cent of them in Kelantan – had been displaced due to…
PTI knows the government is scoring an own goal by locking up half the country
The lockdown is here because the PTI is on its way again from KP to Islamabad with a crowd. Its size varies on social media, depending on who is commenting, while mainstream media…
Dozens die across Indonesia as rainy season strikes
Hydrometeorological disasters, including flash floods and landslides, hit a number of regions in North and West Sumatra.
Super typhoon Man-yi injures 2 persons, affects over 852,000 across Philippines so far
111,658 of the 852,475 affected individuals were displaced — 75,581 are inside evacuation centers nationwide, while 36,077 took shelter elsewhere.
Domestic, international flights cancelled over Indonesia’s Mt. Lewotobi ash cloud
Following the latest eruption on Tuesday night, the Lewotobi Laki-laki Observatory Post issued the highest level of notice for aviation authorities, warning them of imminent ash…
As the world melts around them, climate refugees in Pakistan’s Hunza pin hopes on COP29
These 'climate refugees' are forced to flee their ancestral land as rising temperatures and melting glaciers increasingly threaten their way of life.
Indonesian government to build 1,100 new houses for those displaced by Lewotobi eruption
More than 16,000 residents live in the nearest villages from the volcano, but the government is still calculating how many residents will be permanently relocated.
Indonesia’s Mount Lewotobi exclusion zone widened
The volcano continues to erupt at a high level, with lava flows toward the northeast reaching 4,340 m from the eruption center.