Monsoon Country

Heavy rains have battered areas of south China this year, causing death and destruction HARD TO WALK: Floods from heavy rains in Nanchang, capital city of Jiangxi Province, have almost disrupted traffic in some parts of the city on June 10 For most areas south of the Yangtze River, this year's monsoon season has come early, with heavy rains triggering floods, damaging crops, threatening reservoirs and causing deaths. Between June 5 and 10, the rain affected more than 3.7 million people and damaged nearly 300,000 hectares of farmland in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and the provinces of Jiangxi, Anhui, Hubei and Guangdong, forcing 32,000 people to evacuate, local officials said. One person was crushed to death after a house collapsed in Guangxi and landslides in Guangdong killed another. Total economic losses were estimated... [read full story]