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The 2024–2025 floods in Southeast Asia and South Asia severely impacted multiple Southeast Asian and South Asian nations, resulting in numerous fatalities and widespread displacement across many countries beginning in late-November 2024 at the onset of the 2024–25 monsoon season.
Since the start of April 2024, a Yangon charity has treated at least 100 people for heat-related injuries. According to Radio Free Asia, at least 1,473 people died from heat-related causes in April alone. [21] Civilians displaced by the ongoing civil war [broken anchor] in Sagaing Region have been doubly impacted. [22]
(Reuters) -Factory activity in Asia, Europe and the U.S. ended 2024 on a soft note as expectations for the new year soured amid growing trade risks from a second Donald Trump presidency and China ...
Six cities in India's north and eastern regions recorded temperatures above 44 °C (111 °F), while New Delhi recorded 40.4 °C (104.7 °F) on 18 April. [6]The Ministry of Labour issued an advisory to all states and regions to provide workers with adequate drinking water, emergency ice packs and frequent breaks. [12]
The report by the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, or ESCAP, says nearly $145 billion is needed to set up systems to minimize deaths and damage from floods, earthquakes ...
The Southeast Asian haze is a fire-related recurrent transboundary air pollution issue. Haze events, where air quality reaches hazardous levels due to high concentrations of airborne particulate matter from burning biomass, [1] have caused adverse health, environmental and economic impacts in several countries in Southeast Asia.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Southeast Asia is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It was confirmed to have spread to Southeast Asia on 13 January 2020, when a 61-year-old woman from Wuhan tested positive in Thailand , making it the ...
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan gained 0.6%, having lost 1% last week. Japan's Nikkei returned from holiday to drop 1.8%, pressured in part by a rise in JGB yields to ...