Tag: Villages
BBC visits villages caught in the middle
Jonathan HeadSouth East Asia correspondent in BangkokBBC/Jonathan HeadWhile politicians and officials continue to tussle, many Cambodians displaced by the fighting have still not...
Floods ravage Indian state killing 30 and submerging 1,400 villages
Abhishek DeyBBC News, DelhiAFP via Getty ImagesMultiple disaster response teams, along with the Indian army, airforce and the navy, are helping with the...
Diljit Dosanjh Adopts 10 Flood-Hit Villages In Punjab, Leads Relief And...
Chandigarh: As Punjab reels under devastating floods, singer-actor Diljit Dosanjh has adopted ten of the worst-hit villages in Gurdaspur and Amritsar to support...
shock and despair after entire villages destroyed
Matiullah ShahabAnother resident in Kunar's Sokai district, Ezzatullah Safi, says part of his house collapsed in the earthquake. "I woke to the screams...
Why glaciers are threatening to wipe out more mountain villages
Imogen FoulkesGeneva correspondentBBCIn a small village in Switzerland's beautiful Loetschental valley, Matthias Bellwald walks down the main street and is greeted every few...
How the Chinese Communist Party learnt to love villages
It wants people to move to cities. And the countryside
Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinian Villages in the West Bank
Jewish extremists burned buildings and vehicles in raids on Palestinian villages in the West Bank late Monday, Palestinian officials and the Israeli military...
Israel warns against returning to 60 Lebanon villages
ReutersThe Israeli military has warned Lebanese citizens not to return to 60 villages in the south of the country, three days into a...
Hundreds of Honduran villages cut off by rain
ReutersMore than 2,500 homes were damaged and more than 200 destroyed, officials said. Sara is the 18th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane...
How Pakistan’s melting glaciers destroy mountain villages
BBCKomal’s morning view was of jagged, forbidding mountains, the rush of the river dozens of metres below the family home on the cliff....
