DARJEELING: Environmentalists described the landslides in Darjeeling as a "man-made ecological disaster", the inevitable outcome of decades of deforestation, unplanned urbanisation and poor governance ...

For Phuong Uyen, 38, the flood that swept through South-Central Vietnam felt less like a natural disaster and more like a monstrous betrayal. Trapped in her small home in Hoa Thinh commune — an area ...