Wildfires and Floods Caused Billion-Dollar Economic Loss in Asia Pacific in the first quarter of 2025: Aon Report ...

Asia's vulnerability to natural disasters is an urgent reality. For instance, a one-in-100-year standard of protection indicates a 1 per cent chance of an event occurring in any given year, rather ...

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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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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

This paper investigates the short- and medium-term economic impacts of natural disasters, focusing on Pacific Island Countries (PICs) and using global high-frequency nightlight data in addition to ...

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 ...

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

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 ...