Floods and Regional Disaster Preparedness: Too Little, Too Late?

Heavy rains in Thailand and Cambodia since July 2011 have resulted in high socio-economic costs from flood damage and has claimed at least 500 lives. For Thailand with areas only two metres above sea level, the flood is said to be the country’s worst in the past 50 years, with a third of its provinces [...]

Disasters’ Damage on Development

Recent media reports on the new wave of floods and landslides around the world have yet again highlighted the critical need for disaster preparedness and contingency plans to address the increasing intensity of weather related disasters. However, what has also played out more significantly in these incidents have been weather-related disasters’ direct adverse implications on [...]

People Who Deserve More Credit

A Park Janitor Janitors, garbage collectors, road side sweepers. It may not be much of a glam job, but its these folks that keep our Singapore clean and green when inconsiderate people litter or can’t clean up after. Some call it “job creation”, but at the end of the day, it just creates public complacency [...]