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The Asia-Pacific region experienced 140 major natural disasters that killed 7,300 people and affected 62 million in 2022 alone, the ESCAP report said. Losses amounted to $57.3 billion.
The APEC South Korea 2025 will be the annual meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum of its leaders that will be held in November 2025. [1] It was the second time South Korea has hosted the summit, having previously hosted in 2005 .
The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU or APBU), formed in 1964, is a non-profit, professional association of broadcasting organisations. [2] It currently has over 288 members in 57 countries and regions, reaching a potential audience of about 3 billion people.
More than 100,000 people are evacuated from approaching wildfires in the Pacific Palisades and Hollywood neighborhoods of Los Angeles and Altadena, California, United States, that have burnt more than 3,000 acres, aggravated by an ongoing extreme windstorm and drought conditions. Five people are killed, dozens of others are injured, and around ...
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Jon Stewart, at a press conference on Capitol Hill in 2020, calls on Congress to pass legislation to help veterans exposed to toxic burn pits. (Paul Morigi/Getty Images) (Paul Morigi via Getty Images)
The ABS-CBN shutdown was attributed to information gaps during the media coverage of typhoons that occurred since November 2020, particularly Super Typhoon Rolly, [339] [340] Typhoon Ulysses, [341] and Super Typhoon Odette, [342] with reports noting the void left by the closure of its provincial news bureaus and lack of a substantial signal ...
Community groups across the Pacific Islands, one of the world's most aid reliant regions, are scrambling to find ways to pay staff after U.S. funding was frozen, organisations in Fiji said.