Disasters

Tropical depression Vamco pounded many areas of Thailand, especially the eastern region, with rain and gusty winds on 16 September. In Pattaya, pumps were brought in to battle the sudden flood and people were evacuated to safety. The storm was downgraded to a low pressure ...

Vamco, one of the most disastrous storms in the last five years, has battered the city, brought traffic to a standstill and flooded countless homes and businesses. Tropical Storm Vamco formed in the South China Sea on 13 September 2015 and went ashore to Vietnam, before ...

The repayment of more than US$10 million in loans issued by Myanmar’s largest microfinance institution is in doubt as a result of devastating floods in upper Myanmar last month. Pact Global Microfinance Fund’s general manager for upper Myanmar, U Maung Maung, said the organisation is reviewing ...

Many people in Ho Chi Minh City have described the heavy rain on 15 September as “historical,” “worst” and “suffocating” while some just gave it a swear word.   The rain, which is possibly the biggest this monsoon, sent traffic in the country’s largest city to even more ...

Local government officials in a southern Cambodian province failed to evacuate villagers in time to prevent their homes and rice fields from flooding after the operators of a Chinese-built hydropower dam informed them a day earlier that they would open the facility’s gates to release ...

Flood affected families in isolated villages in central Laos have received much needed relief supplies from the US Embassy, the International Organization for Migration and World Vision International Lao PDR, in partnership with the Department of Social Welfare. Residents of Bolikhamxay Province were inundated by the ...

Newly-formed typhoon Vamco, the third tropical storm to hit Vietnam this year, brought strong wind and heavy rains to the central city of Da Nang on 14 September.   Vamco originally took shape on the southeast waters of Hoang Sa (Paracel) Islands on 13 September and was classified as ...

Tropical Rainstorm Vamco will bring flooding rain to portions of Indochina through at least 16 September. Keep reading ...

Tropical storm Vamco was over the central South China Sea and centred about 350 kilometres off Danang, Vietnam, with maximum sustained winds of 65km/hour, the Meteorological Department announced at 5am on 14 September. Keep reading ...

In the aftermath of the deadly flooding that devastated Rakhine State, one third of paddy acreage in the northern part of the state is littered with fallen trees and branches, dead animals and the detritus of wrecked houses. Deep deposits of mud dumped by the ...