Nearly a quarter of landlords ordered to repair their man-made slopes in the past three years have not done so, Buildings Department figures show. More than 760 orders are still pending and the...
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The Philippines is bracing for the strongest storm of 2012, almost a year after Typhoon Washi triggered landslides, flooding and the highest cyclone death toll since 2008.
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Floods and landslides caused by relentless rain in northeast India have killed at least 33 people and displaced more than a million over the past week, officials said on Monday.
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Heavy rain hammered a quake-stricken area of Yunnan province early yesterday morning, triggering flooding and landslides just days after two earthquakes killed dozens of residents and destroyed or...
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Buried under metres of mud and boulders, the village of Guinsaugon in the Philippine province of Southern Leyte resembles a sodden first world war battlefield, unrecognisable from the verdant...
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Domestic helper Celestina Pie is praying for a miracle to save at least 30 of her relatives feared entombed in last week's mudslide in the Philippines.
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Crude blackboard map is only reminder that people once lived in Guinsaugon
The small farming village of Guinsaugon used to have a school and three churches, lush green fields and more...
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Rampant mining and past logging in a geologically unstable area led to the mudslide
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