88110 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material http://www.bangkokpost.com/lifestyle/social-and-lifestyle/1156909/turns-for-the-betterUnlike the Philippines, which is battered by no less than 24 typhoons a year, Thailand is hardly hit by typhoons. Thais, therefore, did not know what to expect when Typhoon Gay hit the Gulf of Thailand on Nov 3, 1989. With gale-force winds of 120kph, it killed 529 people, including fishermen and....Sun, 11 Dec 2016 01:31:00 +0100BangkokPost-9656e3725994696f224947c03ad0465420161211013100http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/aceh-quake-homeless-more-than-double-to-43000-indonesia-authoritiesJAKARTA - The powerful 6.5-magnitude which rattled Indonesia's western province of Aceh on Wednesday has displaced more than 45,000 people, the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) said on Saturday (Dec 10), nearly doubling the figure given a day earlier.Sat, 10 Dec 2016 10:25:00 +0100straitstimesSG-acb5931dc81b4e06387566a4be727c6820161210102500http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/aceh-quake-homeless-more-than-double-to-43000-indonesia-authoritiesJAKARTA - The powerful 6.5-magnitude which rattled Indonesia's western province of Aceh on Wednesday has displaced at least 43,000 people, the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) said on Saturday (Dec 10), nearly doubling the figure given a day earlier. "Around 43,000 people have currently been displaced in various locations.Sat, 10 Dec 2016 08:52:00 +0100straitstimesSG-7c432631f0d0e165307861599f353f3c20161210085200http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2016/12/09/ri-secures-pole-position-pencak-silat-world-tournament.htmlFarewell: President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo (center) walks with Indonesian Pencak Silat Association (IPSI) chief Prabowo Subianto (left) , Youth and Sports Minister Imam Nahrowi (right) and Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung as they greet the audience during the closing ceremony of the 17th pencak silat....Fri, 09 Dec 2016 11:52:00 +0100JakartaPost-43fee9f49b3ab237740b8f89c546dd8120161209115200