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Southeast Asia heat breaches records, prompts gas buying
Bloomberg News, Published on 30/04/2024
» Southeast Asia's severe heat wave is pushing temperatures and power demand to new records, straining grids and prompting traders in the region to bulk up on natural gas cargoes.
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Dubai floods expose weaknesses to a rapidly changing climate
Bloomberg News, Published on 20/04/2024
» DUBAI - The heavy rains that flooded Dubai this week halted air traffic, damaged buildings and streets — and left climate experts and common citizens asking whether one of the world’s hottest and driest cities should be better prepared for extreme storms.
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Seoul to ban ‘Parasite’-type basement homes after storm deaths
Bloomberg News, Published on 11/08/2022
» After at least four people drowned in basement homes during the worst storm to lash Seoul in more than a century, South Korea’s capital city is planning to phase out such dwellings that came to symbolise yawning inequality in the Oscar-winning film "Parasite".
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World’s food supply faces new threat
Bloomberg News, Published on 03/08/2022
» Rice could emerge as the next challenge for global food supply as a shortage of rain in parts of India, by far the world’s biggest exporter, has caused planting area to shrink to the smallest in about three years.
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After deadly floods, Malaysia king urges protection of forests
Bloomberg News, Published on 28/02/2022
» Malaysia’s king urged the government to take measures to protect the environment and ensure that at least half of the country’s land area remains forested, months after the nation suffered its worst floods in decades.
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China vaccinating almost 14 million people a day
Bloomberg News, Published on 17/05/2021
» China is vaccinating almost 14 million people a day, the fastest pace in the world, as the country races to protect its Covid-19 advantage in the face of major Western nations reopening their economies.
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Indonesian divers retrieve black boxes from air crash
Bloomberg News, Published on 12/01/2021
» Indonesian Navy divers retrieved the black boxes of the Sriwijaya Air Boeing Co jet that plunged into the Java Sea shortly after take-off from Jakarta on Saturday afternoon, a key step in discovering what caused the aircraft carrying 62 people to crash.
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Sriwijaya air crash search suspended due to bad weather
Bloomberg News, Published on 13/01/2021
» The search for one of the black boxes from the Sriwijaya Air passenger jet that crashed in the Java Sea on Saturday has been suspended due to bad weather, Indonesian officials said.
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Indonesian volcano spews ash
Bloomberg News, Published on 17/01/2021
» Mount Semeru volcano on Indonesia’s main Java island spewed hot ash as high as 4km on Saturday, prompting authorities to warn people to keep a distance.
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Deadly crash, fake pilots expose Pakistan’s broken airline
Bloomberg News, Published on 08/07/2020
» For decades Pakistan International Airlines Corp stood for a resurgent post-colonial nation, flying the flag from New York to Tokyo. Now the airline is struggling to recover from a fatal crash, years of losses, a collapse in global air travel and the stunning revelation that almost a third of the nation’s pilots obtained fake licences.
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