Climate security in the Bay of Bengal
The Bay of Bengal (BoB) region is emerging as an important focal point for climate security risks. This is largely due to a multi-layered interplay of geopolitical, geostrategic, and climate-related regional
Myanmar
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UN report: 'Decisive year' for world's forestry
The removal of the world's tree cover remains a concern but deforestation rates are slowing, says the UN report The world's forests face a "decisive year" as nations prepare to adopt the Sustainable
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Africa: Sweden's We Effect and FAO to Support Small-Scale Forest and Farm Producers
FAO and the Swedish-based development cooperation organization We Effect have agreed to work together to strengthen small-scale forest and farm producers' organizations in developing countries so they
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Asian Development Bank offers aid for Myanmar's flood relief
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will extend a 3- million-U.S. dollar aid for Myanmar's flood relief efforts, an official report said Thursday. The grant will be issued from ADB's Asia Pacific Disaster
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Myanmar floods leave a million affected as death toll passes 100
Close to one million people have been affected and more than 100 killed in floods in Myanmar as on Sunday (9 August), with many low-lying areas in the southwestern delta still inundated. Two of the
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Myanmar's northern town set to move out due to destruction by landslide
Hakha town, the capital of Chin state in Myanmar's remote northern area, will be relocated due to destruction by landslides, local media reported on Tuesday. Landslides triggered by heavy rainfall have
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Bangladesh to get €500,000 from EU as flood assistance
The European Commission is providing emergency support to Myanmar and Bangladesh following floods and mudslides in both the countries. Myanmar will receive €1million and Bangladesh €500,000, according
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Severe flood in Myanmar prompts state of emergency
YANGON, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- The flood disaster in Myanmar since June has brought the death toll nationwide to 88 and affected more than 330,000 people across the nation, prompting a state of emergency for
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Water rises dangerously in flood-hit Myanmar's delta; U.S. to help
Residents of Myanmar's low-lying delta region were bracing on Wednesday as flood waters from the north of the country began to flow into the area, pushing river levels dangerously high. More than 250,000
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UN plans to expand food aid to 200,000 people in flood-affected Myanmar
The United Nations announced Wednesday its plans to reach 200,000 with emergency food aid in flood-affected Myanmar, which was recently hit by flooding caused by heavy rains and monsoon. UN spokesman
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Rescuers in Myanmar struggle to reach flood-hit areas, toll seen rising
A death toll of 27 from flooding across Myanmar was expected to rise as rescue workers struggled on Monday to reach some of the hardest-hit and most remote inundated areas, officials said. More than