Natural Disasters

Tokyo, Feb 2, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Mitsubishi Motors Corporation today announced its sales and financial results through the third quarter of the 2011 fiscal year ending March 31, 2012 and its...

Cuba's Official Gazette published regulations for a plan to subsidize construction and repair of private homes, reports Granma (Jan. 6, 2012). Citizens needing assistance--protected by social security or not--will be eligible for as...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Jan. 12 said it approved a disbursement of SDR 2.05 million (US$3.1 million) under the rapid credit facility (RCF) for Dominica to help manage the economic impact...

2011 was one of the most active on record for natural catastrophes, with 253 events generating an economic loss of $435 billion, according to Aon Benfield's Annual Global Climate and Catastrophe Report. At...

Hailstorms in Australia, tornadoes in the southeastern U.S. and windstorms in northern Europe: We're in the second month of the year and already receiving hints that 2012 may be shaping up to equal...

When John Fogerty musically asked "Who'll Stop the Rain?" 40 years ago, he was pondering the world's disquiet. But given the economic and insured damage from natural catastrophes that deluged the U.S. and...

Establishing manufacturing structure of four production centers worldwide and strengthening BCP Tokyo, Jan 31, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Tanaka Holdings Co., Ltd. (a company of Tanaka Precious Metals) today announced that Tanaka...

It's been exactly a year since a Kenner warehouse full of inflatable party attractions was destroyed in a fire. A crew working on the building's roof started the blaze that caused more than...

The federal government was immune from liability in lawsuits brought by hurricane victims who were allegedly exposed to dangerous levels of formaldehyde while living in emergency housing units, the 5th Circuit has ruled...

Developer Wade Verges refers to Bullard Avenue as the new Main Street of eastern New Orleans. As one of the owners of the Lakeland Medical Center property where Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced it...

Declining interest from Hurricane Katrina evacuees who have yet to return to New Orleans doesn't mean there's less need for the 1,500 housing units being built in the 27.5-acre footprint of the Lafitte...

Construction is set to begin on the building that will replace the facility that housed the offices for the LSU Health Foundation until Hurricane Katrina. Satterfield and Pontikes Construction Group became the apparent...

Iowa Low-Income Housing Credit Disaster Relief The Internal Revenue Service is suspending certain requirements under § 42 of the Internal Revenue Code for low-income housing credit projects to provide emergency housing relief needed...

New York state recently received more than $93 million in federal disaster relief aid, and Nassau and Suffolk counties will be laying their own stake to that money. Forty-eight of the state's 60...

New Orleans residents will have a chance starting Monday to weigh in on a proposed plan to more than double Sewerage and Water Board customer rates over the next five years. Through a...

A state program to guard hurricane-afflicted homeowners against future disasters is actually making some of them less safe while shutting out those who want to rebuild, according to long-established contractors and former employees...

Full Year Diluted EPS of $12.37 ($11.85 as adjusted) Operating Margin of 36.3% (40.0% as adjusted) for Fourth Quarter 2011 Assets Under Management of $3.513 Trillion at December 31, 2011 NEW YORK --...

ZUG, Switzerland -- Foster Wheeler AG (Nasdaq: FWLT) announced today that its India subsidiary, Foster Wheeler India Private Limited, part of its Global Engineering and Construction Group, has been awarded a contract for...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- Rockwell Collins, Inc. (NYSE: COL) today reported first quarter fiscal year 2012 income from continuing operations of $130 million compared to $150 million in the same period last year....