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KATHMANDU -- Twenty-seven people were killed and 16 others injured after an Indian passenger bus with 43 aboard skidded off the road in Nepal on Friday, a Nepali official said.
All the injured have been airlifted to Kathmandu for treatment, said Janardan Gautam, chief district officer of Tanahun district where the accident happened. (Nepal-Traffic Accident-Deaths)
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BANGKOK -- Nine people were killed and some others were missing in a landslide triggered by heavy rain on Thailand's southern resort island of Phuket on Friday, authorities said.
About 200 millimeters of rainfall recorded overnight led to a landslide and flooding in several areas of Phuket province, causing damage to at least 250 households, according to a local public relations office. (Thailand-Landslide)
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MACAO -- The Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) of China's Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) said Friday that the SAR's gross domestic product (GDP) expanded by 15.7 percent year-on-year in real terms to MOP 204.3 billion (25.4 billion U.S. dollars) in the first half of this year.
The overall economic output returned to 86.2 percent of the level in the same period in pre-pandemic 2019, with the GDP surpassing the MOP 200 billion-mark again. The last time was in the first half of 2019, the agency said. (Macao-GDP)
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MANILA -- The Asia-Pacific region is crafting measures to reduce the risk of disasters, which are projected to increase by 40 percent by 2030, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) has warned.
"This stark projection indicates that we are going off course from the goal we set in the global blueprint for disaster risk reduction, the Sendai Framework in 2015. We are building risk rather than decreasing it," Marco Toscano-Rivalta, UNDRR chief of the regional office for Asia and the Pacific, said at the media launch of the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (APMCDRR) in Manila on Thursday. (Philippines-UNDRR-Disaster Risk Reduction) Enditem
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