Asia Bears the Brunt of Natural Disasters
Although the final toll isn’t in yet from Super Typhoon Bopha, which devastated the southern Philippine islands of Mindanao and Visayas, United Nations agencies say fewer people have died so far in 2012 than in previous years in natural disasters.
However, such calamities claimed more lives in Asia between January and October than anywhere else on the pl…
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