Dhaka: Floods in August have inflicted 33.46 billion taka (280 million U.S. dollars) in damage on agriculture in Bangladesh’s eastern area.

According to the latest data from the agriculture ministry, more than 200,000 hectares of cropland have been d…

Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged beefed-up disaster relief efforts after Super Typhoon Yagi struck the country’s southern region.

Yagi, the 11th typhoon of this year, made landfalls in the provinces of Hainan and Guangdong on Friday, l…

Lhasa: Jiang Lili is on an unprecedented six-year expedition at the foot of Mount Qomolangma. Unlike the many adventurers who set out from there to climb the highest peak on Earth, she set her sights on the barren land under her feet, aiming to find v…