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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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Hong Kong cancels trading as typhoon nears
Bloomberg News, Published on 17/07/2023
» HONG KONG: Hong Kong cancelled trading on the city’s $5.2 trillion stock market on Monday because of typhoon Talim.
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Weak baht aids tourism resurgence and growth: Arkhom
Bloomberg News, Published on 19/10/2022
» A weaker baht is supporting Thailand’s post-pandemic tourism recovery, which is key to shoring up the nation’s economic performance, according to Finance Minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith.
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Flooding damages crops, risks tourism recovery
Bloomberg News, Published on 04/10/2022
» Thailand is battling the worst flooding in years with a large swathe of its crop land inundated by seasonal storms and swollen rivers, threatening to fuel food prices and hinder a nascent tourism recovery.
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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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Govt plans B155bn aid for farmers hit by Covid, floods
Bloomberg News, Published on 24/11/2021
» The government plans to dole out 155 billion baht in cash to millions of farmers reeling from the impacts of Covid-19, floods, droughts and poor crop prices.
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China punishes dozens of officials as Delta outbreaks spread
Bloomberg News, Published on 09/08/2021
» China has punished a slew of officials for failing to curb a Covid-19 outbreak that’s spawned nearly 900 symptomatic infections across the country in less than a month, a resurgence that complicates Beijing’s strategy of keeping the virus out entirely.
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You eat meat from factory farms. Why not a lab?
Bloomberg News, Published on 09/08/2021
» Soaring beef prices, a new E. coli recall, and a recent swine fever outbreak have added to a growing pile of evidence that the grossly over-consolidated meat industry is in need of a new model. This piece of our global food supply must be reformed – and thoroughly reimagined – before it becomes any more unreliable or environmentally costly.
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Monsoon rains flood Philippines as thousands evacuated
Bloomberg News, Published on 25/07/2021
» Philippine authorities evacuated thousands of people to safety as heavy rains and flooding caused by the southwest monsoon killed at least one person.
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Typhoon bearing down on Philippines
Bloomberg News, Published on 14/05/2020
» Typhoon Vongfong, the Northern Hemisphere’s first named storm, is rapidly intensifying east of the Philippines, where it could clip parts of the island nation on Thursday and Saturday, according to the US Joint Typhoon Warning Center in Hawaii.
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