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Southeast Asia pays for nature's fury
Source: Posted: 01-05-2007 at 09:00:15
| Viet Nam News: The onrush of storms and natural disasters that raged across Southeast Asia last year buried the region in fatal floods and heavy haze that took hundreds of thousands of lives and left survivors without basic shelter. In the first six months of the year, Southeast Asia accounted for 85 per cent of worldwide deaths from natural disaster, according to an estimation from the Belgium-based Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters. Since the total figure of regional damage for ... |
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