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Expo: EU unveils brainstorm

Metro | World Expo
2009-11-14

YOU will walk through a gigantic color-changing "brain cell" and then be dazzled by a spiral array of screens at the European Union Belgian Pavilion for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. The screens will show visitors...

Government: 91 dead in El Salvador flooding

World
2009-11-9

MUD and boulders loosened by heavy rains swept down a volcano and partly buried the town of Verapaz yesterday, swallowing up homes as flooding and landslides across El Salvador killed at least 91 people, authorities...

1 dead as floods hit Greek island

World
2009-9-12

AUTHORITIES in Greece say a police officer has died during flash floods that inundated homes and cut off roads on the island of Evia. Police say the officer's car was swept off a flooded road and into a nearby...

Dogs stay with owners till death in floods

National
2009-8-21

SWEEPING floods in Taiwan may be able to tear down buildings, challenge the governance, and plunge cities into chaos, but they have failed to break the bond between seven dogs and their owners. When the rescue team...

Severe drought lingers, threatens many crops

National
2009-8-18

A SEVERE drought has affected 11.33 million hectares of crops in China, the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters said yesterday. Among the affected crops, 4.2 million hectares suffered serious...

Biggest rainstorm soaks city, stalls traffic, floods homes

Metro | Weather
2009-7-30

THE biggest rainstorm of the year hit the city this afternoon, causing big traffic trouble. Weather forecaster issued the second red rainstorm alert on the weather history -- the most serious alert on the three-scale...

Downpour leaves two missing, 100,000 evacuated in SW China

National
2009-7-12

AT least two people were missing and more than 100,000 others displaced after a rainstorm pelted part of Sichuan Province over the past three days, the local government said today. Two young men were flushed away...

144 dead, 26 missing as rain, floods continue on mainland

National
2009-7-8

FLOODS had caused 144 deaths, with 26 still missing, in China this year up to yesterday, figures from the country's Office of State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters showed. The latest floods have...

S China expects more rainstorms over the next three days

National
2009-7-6

RAINSTORMS are expected across a large part of northeastern China, and will likely continue to wreak havoc the southern regions from today to Wednesday, forecast of the country's central observatory said today. Yunnan...

Trapped minerstotal rises to 16

National
2009-6-20

THE number of workers known to have been trapped by a coal mine flood earlier this week in southwest China's Guizhou Province was raised to 16 yesterday after it emerged that one miner failed to sign the attendance...