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          Storm surges: how to get better prepared

          Storm-surge early warning system, public awareness and disaster preparedness measures help reduce the effects of cyclones, such as Nargis, that hit Myanmar on 2 May....

          United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization - Headquarters
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          China: President calls for enhanced disaster monitoring, early-warning capacity

          The Chinese President showed particular concern over disaster prevention and reduction and called for 'giving priority to the study and to forecasting' of natural hazard-related disasters...

          Xinhua News Agency
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          India: satellites to provide disaster alerts on TV

          'The advance alert will enable state agencies and the public to prepare for any natural calamity and minimize damage to life and property,' said G. Madhavan Nair, Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation...

          Times of India, the
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          More EU action needed to prevent and react to disasters say MEPs

          The European Parliament in a resolution stresses the need to increase the EU's capacity to prevent and to respond to increasingly acute problems with forest fires and droughts.

          European Parliament
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          Severe weather forecasting progresses in the UK

          The UK based Met office has announced significant developments in its science and technology capability to provide more precise prediction of where and when extreme rainfall will occur....

          Met Office
          photo thanks to Walter Hays
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          How angel of Sichuan saved school in quake

          A school principal in Sangzao, China, convinced the county government to fund renovation and reinforcement work on his school in the 1990s. The school withstood the recent earthquake....

          New York Times, the
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          Korea: disaster prevention challenges

          The South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo reports on the challenges ahead for the National Emergency Management Agency to implement the disaster prevention act implemented in 1998...

          Chosun Ilbo
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          Bahrain adopts global initiative to confront natural hazards

          Bahrain announced that it will sponsor the UN Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (2009), an international accord to coordinate world effort on disaster risk reduction...

          Bahrain News Agency

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