Vietnam’s Hoang Anh Gia Lai JSC has hired a helicopter to bring its 26 workers out of the flooded area after the collapse of the Xepian-Xe Nam Noy hydropower dam in the Lao province of Attapeu.
The northern mountainous province of Lai Chau is preparing to evacuate local residents in areas prone to landslides as it braces for complicated weather over the next few days.
Thousands of residents in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta have been evacuated due to flooding though the levels of rivers swollen by the release of water from a reservoir upstream have been dropping, according to Jakarta’s governor.
Philippines’ Mount Mayon erupted with ash plumes of up to 5 kilometers (3 miles) above the crater on January 24, forcing more than 61,000 people to evacuate.
Dozens of thousands of Philippine people were driven from their homes by floods while three fishermen were reported missing as tropical storm Kai-Tak is heading towards the eastern Philippines, authorities said on December 16.
Indonesia is attempting to evacuate eleven of its nationals who have fled from a conflict area in southern the Philippines, said National Police Spokesman Inspector General Setyo Wasisto on May 29.
Floods and landslides in the central Indonesian province of North Sulawesi have left at least eight people injured and forced 5,000 others to flee their homes.
Emergency services in Malaysia deployed boats and trucks to east coast states on January 3 to help with evacuating thousands of villagers who were stranded after four days of heavy rains that caused flooding.
The police of Indonesia evacuated people living in the outskirts of Jakarta on December 10 after discovering a bomb in a raid on suspected Islamic militants who were planning to attack the presidential palace.
Millions of Philippine people have been told to get ready for evacuation as one of the strongest typhoons in history, Haima, is forecast to sweep the northernmost area at 11pm on October 19.
Indonesia evacuated more than 1,000 domestic and foreign tourists on September 28 after a volcano eruption of Mount Barujari in the central province of West Nusa Tenggara.
More than 1,200 people were evacuated from their homes on January 19 as Mt. Egon volcano, in the eastern Flores island of Indonesia, spewed ashes and toxic gas into the air.
At least six families in Bang Lung Town in northern Bac Kan province were evacuated on January 3 after a sink hole 12 metres long and 20 metres deep appeared near their house on January 2.
Heavy rain in the past four days in central Vietnam triggered floods that claimed eight lives, submerged nearly 1,000 houses, and forced thousands to evacuate, authorities said on November 5.
Unrelenting rain has caused severe flooding in central Bolikhamxay province of Laos with some areas left submerged under water as high as 2 metres after the downpour.
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