Natural disasters devastate southeast Asia
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008Stanislas Dupuy
Washington International School
In the first few weeks of May, the international community was devastated by a pair of natural disasters that have already matched the vast scale of disaster of 2004’s Tsunami. On May 3, Cyclone Nargis hit Burma, geographically the largest country in Southeast Asia. A little more than a week later, on May 12, an earthquake struck the Sichuan region of central China.
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