The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) needs to strengthen its disaster management efforts after the region was hammered by deadly storms that left a path of destruction in their wake, its new chief said on Friday.
Secretary general Lim Jock Hoi, a veteran Bruneian diplomat, pointed to a tropical storm that battered the southern Philippines last month leaving at least 240 dead and tens of thousands displaced.
Also in December, a tropical cyclone pounded Indonesia’s main island…
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