The insurance industry is expecting many claims for compensation after last week’s floods in Jakarta, which prompted Indonesia to declare an emergency.
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Thailand’s economic growth slows in the third-quarter as weak global demand for its exports undermines its recovery from last year’s devastating floods.
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MANCHESTER, UNITED KINGDOM–(Marketwire – Oct. 4, 2012) - With torrential rain and high speed winds of up to 70mph causing floods across the UK, Swinton Vans, the leading van insurance broker is warning van drivers to take extra care behind the wheel.
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Floods and landslides from the heavy rains have killed 99 in the Pacific island nation since last week.
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OTTAWA, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – Aug. 15, 2012) - Today, the Honourable Julian Fantino, Minister of International Cooperation, announced that Canada is taking action to help those affected by floods caused by monsoon rains in the Philippines.
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MANILA, PHILIPPINES–(Marketwire – Aug. 8, 2012) - Save the Children is ready to respond to the needs of thousands of displaced children and their families, after floods triggered by torrential rain from the Southwest Monsoon swept through Manila and the National Capital region.
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At least 35 people dead and several others missing in floods triggered by heavy rain in Jos city.
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Thailand’s economy rebounds sharply as factories boost production recovering quickly from last year’s floods.
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For a long, quiet moment, a white-haired gentleman stood and gazed at the words engraved in a low granite wall. Few passersby noticed the memorial, tucked on a tiny patch of federal parkland near Union Station in Washington. But every time Grant Ichikawa returns to the spot and stands before the statue of two majestic birds caught in barbed wire, a half-century of memories floods back.
“This is a holy place for me. My whole life is here,” Ichikawa, 93, a Japanese-American veteran of World War II and resident of Vienna, Virginia, said on a chilly afternoon last month. First, he pointed to a row of stone panels listing obscure towns across the West and South.
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One year after the devastating March 11 quake and tsunami, the economy has been recovering from the tremendous shocks caused by the disasters, which disrupted the nation’s production and exports while hurting business and consumer sentiment.
But with conditions apparently getting back to normal following the domestic crisis, familiar circumstances have re-emerged in which the world’s third-biggest economy has been bombarded with a number of external shocks, including the sovereign debt crisis in Europe and the relative strength of the yen against other major currencies, as well as the massive floods in Thailand.
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