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Seven people, including a baby, lost their lives and three are still missing as heavy flash floods hit rural areas of Mandalay and Sagaing divisions.
About 1,000 villagers were evacuated in Sintgu, Mandalay Division, amid fresh flooding on 18 of September. The town’s Yemyat, Kyedaukpauk and Nweyon villages were hardest hit. A total of 237[…]
Five residential areas of Tachilek, on the border between Shan State and northern Thailand, were devastated by floods on Wednesday evening. Heavy rains caused nearby mountain streams to overflow and sweep through low-lying towns.
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As many as four thousand people in Tachilek, eastern Shan State, were forced to flee to higher ground as heavy rain pounded the town over the weekend.
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An island community located a few miles upstream from the ancient site of Bagan is evacuated when then the Irrawaddy River bursts its banks.
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Most neighbourhoods in Hpakant, a jade-mining town in Burma’s northern Kachin State, have been evacuated following days of heavy rain.
Twenty-five schools have reopened in Pegu Division after severe flooding caused 175 emergency closures since late July, according to the region’s chief educational administrator Saw San Yin. The education department[…]
A village in Rangoon Division’s Hlegu Township has been inundated by floods for the past two weeks, with no sign of water levels abating due to a block in the drainage system.
Rice production in Burma may decline by up to 40 percent from last year in some states due to flooding and insect attacks.
One person drowned and more than 400 were evacuated to safety after severe flooding in Naypyidaw, while in Pegu about 150 villages were inundated when the Irrawaddy River burst its banks.
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Villages in Mon, Karen and Shan states inundated after days of monsoon rains while in Pegu some 600 residents are evacuated into monasteries and shelters.
Hundreds of people are thought to be dead or missing after severe flooding in central Burma. As floodwaters disperse the scale of the destruction in Burma’s Magwe division is becoming[…]
Up to 200 people missing or dead in central Burma as heavy flooding destroys homes and takes it toll on region’s infrastructure
Hundreds of houses destroyed in two refugee camps in western Thailand as days of heavy rain bring threat of landslides
Thousands of migrants working on plantations in the flood-stricken south of Thailand as authorities put the death toll at 15
Hat Yai under four feet of water as low pressure zone moves over the Andaman Sea, potentially making landfall in southern Burma in 48 hours
Farmland in Bago division remains underwater, bug infestation eats away at crops in nearby Rangoon and Mandalay is hit by record rainfall
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More than 50 killed in Cox’s Bazaar and 30 rumoured to have died in western Burma as flooding triggers landslides and submerges towns and villages
No compensation given to majority Karen villagers whose houses and farmland have now been submerged by 185-foot high dam
Aug 3, 2009 (DVB), Torrential rain in western Burma has forced the evacuation of over 300 homes, with some areas experiencing five feet of rain, state-run media reported on Saturday.[…]
Aug 3, 2009 (DVB), Torrential rain in western Burma has forced the evacuation of over 300 homes, with some areas experiencing five feet of rain, state-run media reported on Saturday.[…]
Aug 20, 2008 (DVB), Bago residents said the water level of the Bago river, which had risen due to heavy rains and flooded parts of the town, has begun to[…]
Aug 15, 2008 (DVB), Flooding in Bago division caused by heavy rainfall has been exacerbated by the opening of reservoir gates upstream of the river, forcing residents of three wards[…]
Aug 12, 2008 (DVB), The water level of the Bago river is predicted to reach the emergency level of 910cm within the next two days due to ongoing heavy rains,[…]
Jul 11, 2008 (DVB), A burst embankment caused by heavy rain in Bago's Nyaung Lay Pin township has flooded nearly 30,000 acres of farmland south of the Sittaung river, local[…]
Oct 20, 2007 (AFP), The sole road link between India and Myanmar has been cut off by floods which have left two people dead and displaced 25,000, officials said Friday.[…]
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