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India unveils new 280-mln-dollar Bhopal disaster responseNew Delhi (AFP) June 24, 2010 India unveiled a new 280-million-dollar package to tackle the legacy of the Bhopal gas disaster Thursday and will renew efforts to prosecute the American ex-boss of the group blamed for the accident. The government said it would fund a clean up of the still-polluted site of the catastrophe, increase compensation for victims, improve medical facilities and try to extract more compensation from the culprit, Union Carbide. The new response more than 25 years after the world's worst industrial accid ... read more |
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Yangon (AFP) June 17, 2010Rescue workers were scrambling to provide aid to tens of thousands left homeless in western Myanmar and neighbouring Bangladesh Thursday after flash floods and landslides killed 100 people. At least 46 were left dead as bridges and homes were damaged after record rainfall of more than 13 inches (33 centimetres) Wednesday in parts of Rakhine State in military-ruled Myanmar, the New Light of M ... more
Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh (AFP) June 16, 2010Bangladeshi rescue workers battled blocked roads and floods Wednesday to distribute emergency aid to remote communities hit by landslides that have killed 55 people. Dry food rations and water purification tablets were given to thousands of people left homeless in the country's southeastern tip, which borders Myanmar, after the worst rains in decades struck Tuesday, officials said. "The ... more  
Beijing (AFP) June 15, 2010Governments across Asia were evacuating their nationals from Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday after days of deadly ethnic clashes in the central Asian nation. China, India, Pakistan and South Korea all organised flights to rescue citizens living and working in the troubled south of the country after violence that has left 170 people dead. Two charter flights carrying 195 Chinese citizens landed ear ... more |
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42 dead in Bangladesh flash floods, landslide: policeCox'S Bazaar, Bangladesh (AFP) June 15, 2010 At least 42 people have been killed by landslides and flash floods in southeastern Bangladesh and dozens more are missing, police and local officials said Tuesday. The flood warning centre said most of the southeast had experienced heavy rainfall during the past 24 hours, with 24.2 centimetres (9.5 inches) falling in many areas. In the worst affected area of Teknaf - which is on the border with Myanmar and home to hundreds of thousands of ethnic Rohingya refugees - at least 25 people were kill ... read more |
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