Asia's mega-cities badly exposed to superstorms

Agence France-Presse: The hammer blow dealt to New York by superstorm Sandy should raise the alarm for coastal mega-cities in Asia which are more exposed but less equipped to deal with such threats, experts said on Tuesday. New York was able to draw on top-level civil engineering, good governance and the world's richest economy as it faced a once-in-a-century event. But that is not the case for many cities that have risen, often anarchically, on a coastal arc from China to the Arabian Sea, luring millions in search...

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