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Indonesia - Jakarta Urgent Flood Mitigation Project
Posted on: 10 February 2012 - 1:59pmThe development objective of the Jakarta Urgent Flood Mitigation Project is to contribute to the improvement of the operations and maintenance of a priority part of the flood management system in Jakarta. Negative impacts includes: air quality, noise pollution, water quality, waste management, medical waste, and direct or indirect hazards to public traffic and pedestrians by construction activities.
Read more: http://go.worldbank.org/IBCDQ018P0
Philippine Flood Relief Shifts to Aid Survivors
Posted on: 20 December 2011 - 9:46amStella Cabilogan’s house was hit hard by the flash floods over the weekend that killed about 600 people, but she has decided against moving with her two children into a nearby evacuation center.
“The situation in the evacuation center is very difficult,” she said by telephone on Monday from the southern city of Cagayan do Oro. “There is no water or sanitation there. It’s very easy to get sick.”
Thai floods leave tech firms pondering
Posted on: 20 December 2011 - 9:46amThailand's floods crisis is exposing just how heavily the world's technology sector leans on a drab industrial zone north of Bangkok.
As the last floodwaters recede, after killing 600, the crisis is exposing just how heavily the world's technology sector leans on a drab industrial zone in a floodplain north of Bangkok.
If certain PCs, hard drives or other electronics are suddenly more expensive or backordered in your city, chances are their production relies on Thai factories recovering from neck-high floods.
Flood-hit Philippine cities prepare mass burials
Posted on: 20 December 2011 - 9:46amThe Philippines set up mass burial sites Monday for decomposing bodies of flood victims after a cyclone disaster left an estimated 700 people dead on the southern island of Mindanao.
Officials in the port cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan, where sleeping families were swept to sea from coastal slums, said unclaimed cadavers piling up in mortuaries were posing health risks and had to be interred.
Poor in a rich world
Posted on: 16 August 2011 - 2:03pmEnding extreme poverty has been embraced as a common task by the international community, but Xinhua photographers around the world find there is a long way to go.
Climate change high on agenda of ADB annual meeting
Posted on: 18 May 2011 - 11:25amClimate change is high on the agenda of the 44th ADB Annual Meeting. Climate change can seriously affect the lives of over two billion people in Asia-Pacific.
More than 200 die in India floods
Posted on: 5 October 2009 - 2:09pmMore than 200 people have died in torrential rain in southern India over the past five days and nearly a million people have been displaced in the worst downpour in a over a century.
Officials yesterday said 170 had died in Karnataka state and another 37 in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh as incessant showers lashed the region, submerging towns and villages, snapping transport and communications links and leaving hundreds of thousands homeless.
ADB Pledges $3 Million for Philippines Flood Victims
Posted on: 5 October 2009 - 1:57pmThe Asian Development Bank (ADB) has pledged $3 million in support of emergency relief efforts in the wake of Tropical Storm Ondoy (international code name Ketsana), which inundated the Philippines over the weekend, causing the worst flooding in Manila in over 40 years.
