Sri Lankan authorities said they would need around US$7 billion to rebuild homes, industries and roads destroyed by Cyclone Ditwah.

Sri Lanka tourism players are rushing to restore normalcy across the country after Cyclone Dilwah’s impact last week. This task is particularly urgent, as November and December are peak months for inbound tourism.

Governments and aid groups in Indonesia and Sri Lanka worked to rush aid Tuesday to hundreds of thousands stranded by deadly flooding that has killed around 1,200 people in four countries.Torrential monsoon season deluges paired with two separate tropical cyclones last week dumped heavy rain across all of Sri Lanka and parts of Indonesia's Sumatra,

Indonesia and Sri Lanka hit hardest as climate change-boosted monsoon flooding wreaks havoc across Southeast Asian nations.

A state of emergency was declared in Sri Lanka on Saturday as Cyclone Ditwah unleashed heavy rainfall, causing floods, overflowing rivers, and landslides creating havoc across the country.

Some flood-hit regions of Southeast Asia experienced their heaviest November rains since 2012, according to an AFP analysis, as climate change intensifies seasonal weather patterns.

Wassana Suthi spent last week trying to keep a nursing home running as the floodwaters rose around her in the southern Thai city of Hat Yai, cutting the home off from outside help, bar one helicopter dropping supplies on the roof.

Satellite imagery captured the extent of the flooding that devastated parts of South East Asia in late November, killing at least 1,200 people.These images, captured by Planet Labs PBC, show extensive flooding in the Colombo and Kaduwela areas of Sri Lanka (images 1-2),

The death toll from torrential rain, floods and mudslides has risen to 1,379 in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand.