Globally, the financial impact of natural disasters is increasing. According to reinsurance company Munich Re, economic losses surged to US$320 billion last year, up from US$268 billion in 2023 ...

At least 13 civilians were killed in Pakistani Kashmir in 12 hours until noon on Saturday, the region's disaster authority said, as India and Pakistan traded fire after Islamabad's military action ...

TOKYO -- Roughly 60% of Japanese localities in the area where the next megaquake is expected to hit lack one or more critical supplies that would serve the needs of evacuees, according to a Nikkei ...

"I was selling goods at the market in Sagaing city at the time," said the 41-year-old who lives in Bone Oh, about 15 kilometers from downtown Mandalay, the city nearest the epicenter of the disaster ...

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The Chinese embassy in Tokyo inadvertently added to the fears by warning citizens to take precautions against natural ...

Oxfam International has found in a new study that natural disasters are worst in South Asia because of the poverty and inequality that prevails here. According to the study titled "The Rethinking ...

In his opening remarks, Shahbaz Khan, Director of UNESCO Regional Office for East Asia, emphasized that safeguarding cultural ...

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East Asia and Pacific (EAP) is among the fastest-growing and ... building resilience to changing weather patterns and natural disasters, strengthening human capital, and tackling pandemics. Over the ...

But observers said disaster response in hard-hit areas has ... Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies’ (IFRC) Asia Pacific director. “The epicentre is reachable, but not all ...