12550 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 https://reliefweb.int/report/sri-lanka/asia-and-pacific-weekly-regional-humanitarian-snapshot-11-17-october-2022Sri Lanka. Heavy rains and strong winds have caused severe flooding and landslides in several parts of the country over the past week, affecting 56,000 people and displacing over 5,000 people from their homes. According to the Disaster Management Centre of Sri Lanka, 11 districts, namely....2022-10-18T13:14+0200reliefWeb-d92c9ce55e0dcd413e4e6db9ccfe5f3c20221018131400https://ahacentre.org/weekly-disaster-update/weekly-disaster-update-10-16-october-2022/REGIONAL SUMMARY: For the forty-first week of 2022, a total of 50 disasters (34 floods, 11 landslides, 1 storm, and 4 wind-related) affected the region. Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Viet Nam have reportedly been affected. National Committee for Disaster Management ( NCDM ) reported flooding in several provinces of Cambodia.2022-10-17T12:00+0200ahacentre-501cf03f988de96ae886d72d79877ad920221017120000https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501169199/another-typhoon-to-enter-south-china-sea-as-kingdom-battles-floods/Chan Yutha, spokesman and secretary of state at the Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology, told local news yesterday that the 19 th typhoon in the region, Typhoon Sonca, has dissipated after making landfall in the central regions of Vietnam. The typhoon caused heavy rains in Vietnam, Laos and the Upper Mekong Basin.2022-10-16T12:21+0200khmertimes-472ed7cde9fed4619d5fad7ce8d9c95020221016122100https://vietnam.vnanet.vn/french/tin-van/da-nang-quang-nam-et-quang-ngai-sont-frapphes-par-des-crues-historiques-311502.htmlLa ville de Da Nang et les provinces de Quang Nam et Quang Tri ont témoigné des inondations et crues historiques survenues depuis le soir 14 octobre après des précipitations intenses. La ville de Da Nang et les provinces du Centre de Quang Nam et Quang Tri ont témoigné des inondations et crues....2022-10-16T08:39+0200vnanet-fr-be03bbd672df40b403063064be69a03520221016083900