Southeast Asia & Pacific

Forty-eight hours of rain flooded Thailand’s capital, shut factories and left millions affected across the country.

Floods and landslides tore through three provinces of Indonesia’s Sumatra island. In crowded shelters, clean water was hard to find.

In parts of south-central Vietnam, more than 1,900mm of rain fell in a single week. Whole neighbourhoods disappeared.

More rain fell on Cebu in a day than usually falls in a month. The floods that followed were the worst residents could remember.