China begins major flood clean-up
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Residents in south-western China begin cleaning up after floods and landslides left 172 people dead.
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BEIJING - The first turbine generator on the right bank of China's massive Three Gorges Dam, the world's biggest hydropower project, has started operations, state media reported Monday.
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Hundreds of army and civilian engineers  have begun massive construction work in the northern  Philippines to rebuild flood-hit areas that have been cut off  from the rest of the country for weeks.
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Floods and landslides have killed 76 people in Southwest China and washed away homes and roads over the past few days, local civil affairs officials said.
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China&#39;s Sichuan province faced the threat of epidemics yesterday after the worst flooding in a century killed at least 172 people and
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Rain-soaked residents of south-western China began digging out today after floods and landslides that killed at least 161 people, while authorities warned of further rains over parts of the disaster area.
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Floods in China killed more than 1,000  people this year, destroyed 650,000 village homes and caused  64.7 billion yuan ($7.82 billion) in direct economic losses,  the official Xinhua News agency said.
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A massive floodcrest passed safely through the Three Gorges Dam on China&#39;s Yangtze River on Thursday as devastated communities upstream cleaned up from floods that killed at least 177 people and injured thousands.
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Thousands of Indonesians were cleaning  up mud and debris from their flood-damaged homes on Saturday  after rains eased and waters that forced many into cramped  emergency shelters begin to subside.
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Thousands of residents of the Indonesian capital began returning to their homes on Wednesday as flood waters receded, but they faced a huge task clearing up streets and homes caked in stinking garbage and mud.
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Boats have become a necessary means of transport in the flooded streets of Quxian, north-east of Sichuan province. Picture:Reuters.
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China's flood-hit Sichuan province faced threats from disease on Wednesday while recovering from the worst flooding in a century as villages downstream on the Yangtze River braced for deluges.
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Floods and landslides have killed 76 people in southwest China in the past four days and washed away homes and roads, knocked down power lines and cut off at least one city, state media said on Monday.
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Floods and landslides have killed 55 people in southwest China in the past four days, washing away homes and roads, knocking down power lines and leaving at least one city cut off, state media said on Monday.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan -- China has begun evacuating almost 250,000 people from coastal areas as it braces for the onslaught of Typhoon Aere.
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A clear-up operation is under way after severe flooding hits a County Antrim village.
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China vows to improve emergency response to extreme weather    BEIJING, June 21 (Xinhua) -- China will improve its emergency responses to extreme weather caused by global warming, E Jingping, vice minister of water resources, told Xinhua in a recent interview.