The Floods of Jakarta And here we go again! It is January 2014, but somehow it all feels like last year, or the year before last… or ten years ago. Jakarta is under water; people…
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It is ‘biasa’ – business as usual – at the ‘Mall Of Indonesia’ in North Jakarta. As if there has been no tragedy of a great magnitude that occurred in this city just a few…
RIA Novosti/Ilya Pitalev Search and rescue is over in southern Russia, where flash floods have killed 171 people. The Emergencies Ministry is focusing on rebuilding the water-damaged cities. Residents are trying to cope with the…
[anyplayer:url=http://www.rt.com/files/news/long-flood-aftermath-krymsk-713/i2cb050394776360419d5ba71ecfe16fd_barton0907_0800.dv.flv] As Russia mourns for the victims of the catastrophic floods in Krymsk, residents are already trying to piece their shattered lives back together. And while the world tries to understand the disaster, locals are…
A river in Hezuo, Northwest China’s Gansu province, floods after torrential rains fell on the city on Monday afternoon, August 15, 2011. The waters have harmed more than 190 houses and three businesses along the…
Local residents take boats to get out of downtown Lanxi city, East China’s Zhejiang province, June 20, 2011. The flood crested in the city Monday at 33.75m, the highest since 1955. The local government is…
A makeshift raft provides an effective, if rudimentary, form of transport in a flooded village in Zhuji, Zhejiang province, on Sunday. Days of torrential rain have forced the evacuation of more than 500,000 people in…
BEIJING – The floods in Central and South China have killed another seven people and left seven more missing during the past three days, the government said on Wednesday. Heavy rains that have lashed several…
BEIJING – A new round of rain beginning on Monday was expected to batter Central, East and South China, where 98 people have died and 78 are missing due to rain-triggered floods, landslides and…
Floods triggered by heavy rains have killed 21 people and left 31 others missing in a county of Southwest China, the local government said on Tuesday. As of 2 pm on Tuesday, the floods had…