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Journalist Yumi Araki explores her home country as it enters an era of great social and political transformation. Travelling from ...Copyright© Mediacorp 2020. CNA Insight Producer Nicholas Deroose talks about what he ... The fate of towns such as Pariahan provides a preview of the problems that may await some of the capital’s 13 million people.Sections of Manila along the shore of the bay are sinking too, with excess groundwater pumping being the most likely cause, Eco, the researcher, told A moratorium on new wells in the greater Manila area has been in place since 2004. But with ...

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Sea level rise is threatening to put Bangkok underwater by 2050 if urgent action is not taken. Jakarta is one of the fastest sinking cities in the world.

Will the new novel coronavirus which has killed more than 900 people and infected more than 40 000 others trigger the possibility of a global ... Cities such as Jakarta – which is sinking 25 centimetres (0.8 feet) each year – Bangkok and Shanghai risk being inundated within decades as a mixture of poor planning, more violent storms and higher tides wreak havoc. The villagers of Banten are facing eviction. President Jokowi entered his second and last term in office with the aim of making Indonesia the world’s fifth largest economy by 2045. The creeping bay waters put people and property at risk, while the threat is amplified by high-tides and flooding brought by the roughly 20 storms that pound the archipelago every year.Some areas have raised roads in an effort to keep up with the sinking, creating odd scenes where the street surface is at the height of door knobs on roadside buildings. Just a handful of families remain in Pariahan, which had its own elementary school, a basketball court and a chapel before the water flowed in. A humanitarian ... San Jose explained, “Every year we raise (the floor) of our house. “This is only going to get worse in the near future,” he insisted.Manila and its surroundings are among several major cities, especially in Asia, under threat as the land collapses beneath them, though the causes for this vary.Cities such as Jakarta – which is sinking 25 centimetres (0.8 feet) each year – Bangkok and Shanghai risk being inundated within decades as a mixture of poor planning, more violent storms and higher tides wreak havoc. What will Tsai Ing-Wen's resounding victory in the recently concluded Taiwan's Presidential election mean for Cross-Strait relations?
Deemed the new 'Cold War', the US and China are in a race for technological dominance, amid Donald Trump’s trade war. Almost a year has passed since a string of earthquakes rocked the Indonesian island of Lombok in Indonesia’s Nusa Tenggara province and Palu in ... In October 2015, ASEAN environment ministers agreed on a roadmap to achieve a vision of a haze-free region by 2020. Sinking cities. "History should teach us that Nazi Germany did not begin with concentration camps. Can the practice be stopped? USE OF THIS WEBSITE CONSTITUTES ACCEPTANCE OF OUR TERMS & CONDITIONS AND PRIVACY POLICY. MANILA, Philippines — … Landscape architect Kotchakorn Voraakhom ...

Cities in the archipelagic Southeast Asian country are facing a “slow-motion disaster”.

Without proper consultation and inclusive actions, the solutions to land subsidence may sink too . Based on satellite imageries, physical evidence, and other studies, many parts of the Philippines, including Metro Manila, are sinking due to sea level rise as a result of climate change.