Disasters and emergency response
Thai border community donates aid worth 750 million Kyat to Burma’s flood victims
Thai people from Thailand’s border province of Tak, have donated aid worth 750 million kyat in relief items through the Mae Sot-Myawaddy border crossing in Karen State for the people affected by the severe flooding throughout Burma. Mr Sumchai Katiyasanti, governor of Tak province, said all ...
City seeks patience after floods
Record-breaking rains flooded Phnom Penh during a two-day storm, prompting City Hall to ask residents to be “understanding” yesterday. People were urged to avoid littering into the sewage system to prevent blockages. “We will do our best to make our sewage system work quickly and efficiently everywhere,” ...
Flooded Vietnam coal mines leaking toxic slurry into World Heritage-listed Ha Long Bay: environmentalists
Heavy rainfall in northern Vietnam has killed at least 17 people and inundated major coal mines, causing concern among environmentalists about the contamination of the nation’s top tourist attraction and World Heritage-listed Ha Long Bay. A week of persistent rain in Quang Ninh province has displaced ...
Relief teams, donors struggle to reach hardest-hit regions in Myanmar floods
Floodwaters began to subside in some hard-hit areas of the country yesterday but relief workers were still struggling to reach the hundreds of thousands of people affected, including tens of thousands of displaced. Stranded communities in Rakhine State and Magwe Region told The Myanmar Times they ...
UN warns Myanmar flood toll likely to increase
The toll from flooding and landslides after days of torrential rain is likely to rise, the United Nations has warned, as monsoon downpours brought misery to thousands across the region. At least 21 people have been killed and more than 150,000 affected by flooding across 12 ...
Myanmar officials use social media to fight flood rumours
Local government officials are turning to social media in an effort to share information on the flooding situation in upper Myanmar – and head off rumours of impending dam overflows and other catastrophes. The government has traditionally used state media, both print and broadcast, to share ...
Sagaing village’s electric ambitions drown in flooding
Sagaing Region’s flooding has quenched villagers’ dreams of electric power. The heavy rains and rising rivers have drowned at least 10 people, broken down bridges and dams, stranded road and rail passengers, driven hundreds from their homes and swept away entire villages. In addition, they have ...
Bridges washed out in upper Myanmar
Heavy rains have broken 21 bridges over rivers and creeks in upper Myanmar, the Ministry of Construction told a press conference yesterday. Keep reading ...
Aid group forced to stop helping flood victims on Ma Ba Tha orders
Hardline monks have flexed their muscles amid the desolation of Sagaing Region’s floods, ordering a prominent aid group to leave the area and describing National League for Democracy and other volunteers as “troublemaking groups”. Flooding has devastated large areas of northern Sagaing Region, with Kawlin the ...
Thousands displaced in Mrauk-Oo, Myanmar
More than 1000 people have been displaced by flooding in Mrauk-Oo township in Rakhine State as a result of heavy rain, a civil society leader in the town reported. Rain was continuing and there were concerns the situation would worsen. Keep reading ...
