Tropical storms and monsoon rains have pummeled Southeast and South Asia, triggering landslides and flash floods from the rainforests of Indonesia's western Sumatra island to the highland plantations of Sri Lanka. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/08/asia-pacific/indonesia-sri-lanka-flood-hardships/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #indonesia #srilanka #disasters #floods
Sri Lankan authorities issued fresh landslide warnings on Sunday with rains lashing areas already devastated by a powerful cyclone, as the death toll rose to 618. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/07/asia-pacific/sri-lanka-landslide-cyclone/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #srilanka #typhoons #landslides
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Floods across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Malaysia have killed close to 1,000 people.
A warmer world means heavier storms and deadlier rain.
Communities should not pay the price of a crisis they did not cause.
Protect people. Finance adaptation. Make polluters pay.
#climatechange #makepolluterspay #climatecrisis #floods #indonesia #malaysia #srilanka #thailand
The death toll from cyclone-induced floods and landslides in Southeast Asia nears 800 as rescuers battle to clear roads and improved weather conditions reveal the scale of the disaster. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/02/asia-pacific/asian-storm-death-toll/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #southeastasia #typhoons #floods #indonesia #malaysia #thailand #srilanka
What a week! It's been unreal. It felt apocalyptic. Personally, this is the worst I have experienced since the 2004 Asian Tsunami. A criminal act on the government's part to neglect the very basics (more on that later). We were hit by Cyclone Ditwah. We were without electricity since Thursday evening. As a result of the power outage, mobile and land phone networks, and Internet connections were dead in no time. Apparently mobile phone companies had decided long ago to make an extra buck by ditching batteries and power generators at their towers. In the midst of the unfolding chaos people were cut off from the rest of the world, from essential services and news in general.
We are safe. Thousands of others are not.
Sri Lanka: Over 330 dead from Cyclone Ditwah, hundreds of thousands impacted :
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/01/gphw-d01.html
#CycloneDitwah #SriLanka
Floods across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Malaysia have killed close to 1,000 people.
A warmer world means heavier storms and deadlier rain.
Communities should not pay the price of a crisis they did not cause.
Protect people. Finance adaptation. Make polluters pay.
#climatechange #makepolluterspay #climatecrisis #floods #indonesia #malaysia #srilanka #thailand
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake have agreed that Japan will provide about 10 surveillance drones to the South Asian nation's navy. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/30/japan/sri-lanka-drones/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #shigeruishiba #srilanka #drones #defense
A Singapore shipping company has said it will refuse to pay Sri Lankan court-ordered damages of $1 billion for causing that country's worst case of environmental pollution. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/23/asia-pacific/crime-legal/singapore-sri-lanka-pollution-damages/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #singapore #srilanka #pollution
Young people across Asia are furious. But burned buildings and trashed department stores can't be the endgame. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/11/world/gen-z-protesters-challenge-asias-old-guard/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #genz #nepal #indonesia #srilanka #bangladesh #asia
"Sri Lanka breaks ground on 100 MW solar project"
#SriLanka #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/09/08/sri-lanka-breaks-ground-on-100-mw-solar-project/