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At least eight people died in Siberia on Saturday (May 7) as fires ripped through hundreds of buildings in several villages, with high winds hampering efforts to extinguish the blazes.

Bin is one of more than 100 villages partially or completely burned by Myanmar's military trying to suppress opposition since the start of this year

Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh - New violence in Myanmar's troubled Rakhine state has delayed a United Nations study on 1,000 villages abandoned by Muslim Rohingya, a top UN envoy said Friday.

Local officials were dispatched on Monday morning to inspect about 200 homes in Chaiyaphum for damage caused by a summer storm on Sunday night.

A total of 30 villages in six tambon of Phayao’s Pong district were whacked by floods on Saturday morning. Two other villages in the province’s Chiang Kham district were earlier reported struck by flood damage.

Two Phayao villages were hit by a flash flood early on Saturday after the Mao Lao River burst its banks following overnight heavy downpours.

Some 1,300 residents of Tambon Han Sai in Sa Kaew’s Aranyaprathet district attended a 28-kilometre bicycle rally on Sunday in a campaign against a plan to build a biomass-fired power plant in the area.

The Phang Nga governor declared four coastal villages in Takua Pa district disaster zones on Monday after they were hit by a storm that caused giant waves to batter them overnight.

Residents of two remote villages in Phang Nga on Tuesday called on the government to expropriate land to build a public road connecting their communities to the outside world.

The flooding situation in Satun worsened on Thursday morning as two villages were hit by mountain runoff after heavy rains continued for hours.

A 60-household village in Surat Thani’s Phra Saeng district has lived without electricity for the past three decades, as their appeals to state agencies for power supply fell on deaf ears.

Mountain runoff triggered by overnight rains hit two villages in Loei’s Phu Kradueng district on Wednesday morning.