Everything I Needed to Know About Survival, I Learned from a Computer Game
Games, and cartoons, boost youth disaster preparation.
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Community Radio Enables Disaster Preparedness
Media spells the difference between life and death for inhabitants along coastal Bangladesh.
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Aid in Bangladesh?
Despite "relatively modest” development assistance, poverty and malnutrition remain prevalent in Bangladesh.
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Natural Disasters Becoming Costlier
Natural disasters in Asia in 2011 could well prove to be the costliest ever, experts say.
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Migrants Caught in Floodwaters
Undocumented workers in Myanmar-Thailand exploited post-floods.
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Cash For Work Goes Mobile
Using mobile phones to send cash to relief operations to disaster-hit Philippines.
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Throwing Mud at Flood Water
Thais turn to tossing mud balls in the hope of improving the quality of stagnant water following weeks of flooding.
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Nothing to Sacrifice
Cheerless Eid for Sindh flood survivors in Pakistan.
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Drugs Flushed Out
Hospitals in Thailand fear floods will hit drug supplies.
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Forgotten Survivors
Forgotten 2005 quake victims in Pakistan still need help.
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Nuclear Crises Then and Now
The Fukushima nuclear crisis in Japan triggers memories for a young man whose father was, along with thousands of other Ukrainian workers, sent by the Soviet government to help clean up after the Chernobyl meltdown in 1986.
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Farmers Rained Out
Recently displaced farmers hit by flooding in the Philippines.
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Mindanao “Worst” Ever Flooding Due to Water Hyacinth
Dislodged by weeks of heavy rain in their natural habitat, the plants had at one point blocked up to 2km of the Rio Grande river.
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Seven Years On, No Respite For Tsunami Victims
Tsunami victims in Aceh are still living in “temporary” accommodation, waiting to be rehoused.
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Moving Beyond Dollars and Cents
Besides donations, the private sector also has the skills and assets that can prove useful when a disaster strikes.
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