Myanmar moments

Risking his security, and to some extent, his life, this LA Times undercover reporter, quite literally at that, shares what he saw in far-flung villages ravaged by a typhoon.

Earthquake in China

After the cyclone in Burma which killed thousands comes the earthquake in China. As of latest reports from CNN and BBC, at least 8,500 people are declared dead.

It is these "large-scale" natural disasters that catch us off-guard, despite all the forecasts and high-tech equipment we invent to predict our planet's movements. This uncertainty is one of the loopholes of development management, as these are considered as assumptions that "should not happen" to achieve desired goals.

Let us just hope that this disaster would be the last one, even if we know it won't be.