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 Apia (AFP) Sept 29, 2009 
Witnesses told of scenes of panic and confusion Tuesday after a major earthquake hurled giant waves at the islands of Samoa, smashing buildings, throwing cars and hurling boats ashore. Young men banged gas canisters like "church bells" to bring thousands of frightened people streaming to higher ground as the disaster unfolded in coastal towns below. Foreign tourists and residents of the ... read more 
Manila (AFP) Sept 30, 2009Doctor Joanna Remo and her staff could only weep as muddy waters overwhelmed their public hospital in eastern Manila at the height of tropical storm Ketsana. Medical equipment and medicines were rendered useless as the hospital's first floor was swamped on Saturday afternoon, and about 200 patients were hastily transferred to the second floor. Just hours after the waters started to reced ... more |
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Apia (AFP) Sept 29, 2009A Samoan resort area popular with foreign tourists has been "devastated" by a deadly tsunami that ripped through the tropical Pacific island nation, the country's deputy prime minister said. Misa Telefoni said the powerful waves which have killed at least 36 people in the archipelago had smashed into upmarket island resorts off the west coast of the main island of Upolu. "We've heard tha ... more 
Hoi An, Vietnam (AFP) Sept 30, 2009Typhoon Ketsana left a trail of destruction across Southeast Asia Wednesday, killing at least 49 people in Vietnam and Cambodia and churning towards Laos, officials said. Tens of thousands of people had fled their homes to escape flooding caused by Ketsana, which had already killed 246 when it struck the Philippines over the weekend as a weaker tropical storm. Floodwaters hit swathes of ... more  
The Hague (AFP) Sept 29, 2009Developing countries will need up to 100 billion dollars (80 billion euros) a year for 40 years to combat the effects of global warming, said a World Bank report released in The Hague on Tuesday. Assuming the planet is two degrees Celsius warmer by 2050, "the study puts the cost of adapting ... at 75 billion to 100 billion dollars a year" from 2010, according to an investigation commissioned ... more |
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Hanoi (AFP) Sept 30, 2009Typhoons and tropical storms kill dozens of people each year in Vietnam. Here is a chronology of recent major disasters: 2009 - September 29: Typhoon Ketsana strikes south of Danang, killing at least 38 people and leaving 10 missing 2008 - September: Typhoon Hagupit kills at least 41 people in northern Vietnam 2007 - October: At least 58 die when Typhoon Lekima hits north ... more 
Washington (AFP) Sept 29, 2009Barack Obama will make his first trip as US president next month to the US southern Gulf Coast, which is still struggling to rebuild, four full years after deadly Hurricane Katrina. The White House said Obama wanted to see "first-hand the progress in the region," since Katrina slammed into the coast in August 2005, triggering a disaster which killed nearly 1,500 people and left tens of thous ... more 
Phnom Penh (AFP) Sept 30, 2009Typhoon Ketsana has killed at least 11 people in northeastern and central Cambodia, police and government officials said Wednesday, after the storm left another 38 dead in Vietnam. Nine were killed and 35 injured in central Cambodia while two died in the northeast overnight as the country was battered by the storm, officials said. "At least nine people were crushed last night when their ... more |
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