The region is expected to remain the fastest-growing among ... mitigate vulnerabilities in a more open and dynamic economy. Spotlight 1. Heat and Floods in South Asia: Household and Firm Exposure ...

SINGAPORE - The weather in some of the world’s most densely populated cities is swinging from droughts to floods and back ... showed on March 12. South and South-east Asia face the strongest ...

But the hardest hit region was South Asia, where 128 million school children ... Over 400 schools were ruined by flooding in Pakistan in April, whereas in Afghanistan, heatwaves followed by ...

ISLAMABAD: Karachi and Dhaka will be the only two cities in Asia-Pacific region among the 10 cities of the Global South that ...

Thousands of people were evacuated in Indonesia's capital Jakarta on Tuesday after floods swamped the region, officials said, with heavy rain expected to continue until next week. Torrential rain ...

The South Asia region presents a confluence of major climate impacts and key security issues. From a weather and climate standpoint, the region experiences a wide range of hazards, such as the recent ...

The situation in Queensland and northern New South Wales remains very serious, said Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Even as the weather system weakened, authorities issued a string of flood ... in New South Wales. In New South Wales, Essential Energy said repairs were underway across the storm-hit region ...