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Hello and Welcome to News and Reports on China Radio International. In This Edition Fresh torrential rains bring landslides to more areas in China, as rescue teams comb through the devastated Zhouqu County in the country's northwest. Flood victims in
Australian of the year,Geoffrey Rush, says he hopes the owner will inspire more interests in locally produced cinema.The Academy award winning actor has been recognized for his achievements in the arts over 40 years.Northern territory,Laurie Baymarrw
The annual monsoon rains have unleashed flooding in several parts of India, killing nearly 1,500 people and leaving millions of others homeless. The worst affected region is the eastern state, Bihar, where a river burst its embankment, last month, a
The start of the school year in Niger means another move for people displaced by flooding, who had been camped in school courtyards. The government is helping those who have nowhere else to go. Four months ago, cattle grazed along the River Niger, as
The term 500-year flood event basically means there`s a rare 1-in-500 chance that a particular flood would hit in a given year. Southeast Texas has seen two of these 500-year flood events in two months, what a CNN meteorologist described as very bad
1. A four-year-old Texas girl is dead after being swept from her mother's arms Monday morning when a flash flood tore through their suburban Fort Worth mobile home park. The flood has forced dozens of people to flee parts of North Texas. 2. Police in
1. At least nine deaths are being blamed on a storm that's drenching the nations midsection. Hundreds are fleeing their homes and roads are flooded after as much as ten inches of rain fell in some regions. Flood and flash flood warnings are in effec
1. At least nine deaths are being blamed on a storm that's drenching the nations midsection. Hundreds are fleeing their homes and roads are flooded after as much as ten inches of rain fell in some regions. Flood and flash flood warnings are in effec
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 22 August 2007 The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is appealing for $5.5 million to head-off a potential health crisis in flood-stricken North Korea. The Swiss agency reports North Korea's healt
Mississippi Flooding Harms Agriculture in Several US States Flooding along the Mississippi River has ruined crops, damaged farmland and delayed barge traffic in parts of the southern United States. Officials say diversion of some of the water through
Flooding triggered by heavy rains has forced millions of Pakistanis to leave homes as the disaster has damaged hundreds of thousands of homes and destroyed acres of crops in southern Pakistan. The provinces of Sindh and Baluchistan have been worst hi
The Beijing meteorological center has issued a yellow alert for two days of thunderstorms and rainstorms starting from Tuesday, warning residents to be prepared for the heaviest rain to hit the capital this summer so far. CRI's Zhang Shuangfeng has m
The Flood Katie Melua Broken people get recycled and I hope that I will sometimes be thrown over pathways what I thought was my way home wasn't the place I know no I'm certain nothing's certain what we are becomes our prison my posessions will be gon
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 18 October 2007 The United Nations Children's Fund says hundreds of thousands of flood victims in North Korea are in a fragile state and need emergency assistance. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from Geneva that UNICEF says food,
By Stefan Bos Budapest 09 April 2006 A woman casts her vote in Pecs, 197 kms south of Budapest, during the first round of parliamentary elections in Hungary Sunday, April 9, 2006 Hungarians are voting
By Jamila Trindle Mianyang, Sichuan Province, China 06 June 2008 Three weeks after the earthquake in China's Sichuan province displaced five million people, a few hundred thousand have had to move again - out of the way of a dammed river that poses
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 18 August 2007 International aid agency Oxfam says poorly built flood defenses in South Asia may have aggravated the intensity of the recent flooding in the region. It calls for a reassessment of flood policies in the reg
Nine years ago, when Hurricane Ike caused $30 billion of property damage in the Houston and Galveston area, it was a wakeup call. But according to the report Hell or High Water, published last year by ProPublica and the Texas Tribune, Houston did not
BEIJING, June 3 (Xinhua) -- The national flood and drought prevention office has warned that severe floods are more likely to occur this year due to markedly increased rainfall, according to Sunday media reports. Floods may cause greater damage this
Hello and Welcome to News and Reports on China Radio International. In This Edition China says it is seriously studying a UN draft resolution on Syria as fighting reportedly continues. A ministerial conference among China and African countries is set