text: Natural disasters exact huge toll on Asia, Asia News & Top Stories - The Straits Times
  Four of world's worst-hit nations are in Asia, says UN report out before Paris climate talks
  A submerged highway in a Philippine town hit by a typhoon last month. Weather-related disasters have grown more frequent over the last 20 years, claiming more than 600,000 lives, the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction says in a report just released.PHOTO: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
  A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on November 26, 2015, with the headline 'Natural disasters exact huge toll on Asia'. Print Edition | Subscribe