Word: typhoons
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...world, with just one baby born per woman. According to the Population Reference Bureau's 2009 annual report, Taiwan has now surpassed both Macau and Hong Kong, which have held the lowest spots on the world chart for the past five years. (See pictures of this year's deadly typhoon in Taiwan...
...Nearly 860 people were killed in flooding and landslides after Ketsana and typhoon Parma tore into Luzon, the country's largest island, in late September and early October. Four weeks later, sections of the city and some surrounding provinces are still underwater, and state-run hospitals have been overwhelmed by an outbreak of leptospirosis, a bacterial disease spread from the urine of infected rats and other animals. (In Sri Lanka, where there was a large outbreak in 2008, leptospirosis is known as "rat fever.") The bacterium is transmitted by the standing floodwater through cuts in the skin and by people...
...asked for an additional $5.8 million in order to recruit and train 3,000 rangers to patrol protected lands. Even if they get the extra funding, for many of the forests in Vietnam's central highlands, and for the people whose villages now lie under a sea of mud, Typhoon Ketsana has revealed that the help will come too late...
When rains slowed enough for people living in the central coast of Vietnam to venture outside and assess the damage, they were stunned at what they saw. In the night, Typhoon Ketsana had unleashed thousands of logs and cut timber, which had ridden the swollen rivers down the mountains, bashing anything and everything in the way. The lumber, much of which is believed to have been illegally harvested old-growth timber, clogged rivers and jammed under bridges and piers. For residents in the area who managed to harvest the wood, the rains last month brought riches. But Typhoon Ketsana also...
...that wood and lumber was an unusual sight, concedes Pham Thanh Lam, director of the Forestry Protection Bureau in Quang Nam, the province where the typhoon made landfall on Sept. 29. The storm was one of the most powerful to hit Vietnam in the past 50 years, killing at least 164 people. The highest number of deaths occurred in the mountainous province of Kon Tum, after heavy rains triggered flash flooding and landslides. At least two villages were completely buried. (See pictures of Ketsana's damage in Manila...