Reports

DATE=8/25/96 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-202157 TITLE=NORTH KOREA FOOD AID (S) BYLINE=CHRIS SIMKINS DATELINE=SEOUL CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: A U-S CONGRESSMAN IS URGING OTHER COUNTRIES AND INTERNATIONAL RELIEF ORGANIZATIONS TO PROVIDE MORE FOOD AID FOR NORTH KOREA. CONGRESSMAN TONY HALL MADE THOSE COMMENTS SUNDAY IN SEOUL, AFTER RETURNING…

Ref: DHAGVA - 96/293 1. THE UNDP RESIDENT REPRESENTATIVE IN HANOI REPORTS THAT THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS TODAY RELEASED THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION ON THE TWO ABOVE MENTIONED TYPHOONS. 2., ON 24 JULY TYPHOON FRANKIE HIT THAI BINH, NAM HA AND…

The World Food Programme's first consignments of food under its expanded emergency operation for North Korea have arrived in the flood-stricken country and will soon be distributed to some 1.5 million hungry poor people. The U.S. cargo ship, the MV…

By DEXTER CRUEZ Associated Press Writer COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Some 200,000 people who fled fighting between Tamil rebels and Sri Lankan forces are dangerously short of food, water and shelter, a relief agency said today. Gordon Molitor, CARE's director in…

NEW YORK, 16 August (Department of Humanitarian Affairs) -- Exactly one year after unprecedented torrential rains devastated much of the agricultural sector and infrastructure of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, heavy rainfall in July-August is once again causing widespread…

DHA/96/17 Genève (Département des affaires humanitaires) -- Exactement un an après les pluies torrentielles sans précédent qui avaient dévasté la plus grande partie du secteur agricole du pays ainsi que ses infrastructures, les fortes chutes de pluie qui ont eu lieu…

Ref: DHAGVA - 96/0276 SITUATION 1. SINCE 15 JULY HEAVY RAINS HAVE HIT PARTS OF DPRK , WITH UP TO 800 MM PRECIPITATION IN SOME AREAS BETWEEN 24 - 27 JULY. 2. ACCORDING TO REPORTS BY THE AUTHORITIES AND THE UNDP/DHA…

From B. Szynalski, Director, Operational Policy and Support Division. For information regarding resources, donors are requested to contact Mr. F. Strippoli or Mr. M. Crosthwaite, WFP Rome (Ph. 39 6 5228 2504 or 5228 2004). D. DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA 1.…

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- Fourteen flood victims on their way to pick up relief supplies drowned when their boat capsized in a southern Bangladesh river, police said today. The boat sank Monday when it was rocked by strong winds on…

DATE=8/12/96 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-201573 TITLE==KOREA / RED CROSS / L-O BYLINE=SHIN NA DATELINE=SEOUL CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: THE SOUTH KOREAN RED CROSS PROPOSED TALKS WITH ITS NORTH KOREAN COUNTERPART MONDAY, TO DISCUSS FLOOD RELIEF AID. SHIN NA REPORTS FROM SEOUL, OFFICIALS FROM THE TWO ORGANIZATIONS MET LATER…