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Malaysia: Failure in Disaster Management

Categories: East Asia, Malaysia, Disaster, Governance

Opposition Malaysian politician Lim Kit Siang asks “why the authorities were caught off-guard despite the availability of sophisticated early-warning systems [1] about the massive floods in the south of the country”. Southern states of Malaysia have seen record levels of rainfall and massive flooding in the last couple of weeks.