{"id":75430,"date":"2025-12-01T23:34:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/dec\/01\/death-toll-floods-indonesia-sri-lanka-malaysia-thailand-latest-updates-news-live"},"modified":"2025-12-01T23:56:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:56:36","slug":"death-toll-passes-1100-in-devastating-floods-across-indonesia-sri-lanka-malaysia-and-thailand-latest-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75430","title":{"rendered":"Death toll passes 1,100 in devastating floods across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Thailand \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This blog is now closed.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/01\/asia-flood-sri-lanka-indonesia-deploy-military\">Full report: Sri Lanka and Indonesia deploy militaries as Asia floods death toll passes 1,100<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/01\/asia-floods-visual-guide-flooding-extreme-weather-cyclones-monsoon\">How cyclones and monsoon rains combined to devastate parts of Asia \u2013 visual guide<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cyclone Ditwah, which unleashed catastrophic flooding and landslides across Sri Lanka, has brought heavy rain to India\u2019s southern state of <strong>Tamil Nadu<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The storm, now about 30 miles off the coast of the city of <strong>Chennai<\/strong>, the state capital, has weakened into a \u201cdeep depression\u201d, according to weather officials, who expect it to weaken even further across the day.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/dec\/01\/death-toll-floods-indonesia-sri-lanka-malaysia-thailand-latest-updates-news-live\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog is now closed.Full report: Sri Lanka and Indonesia deploy militaries as Asia floods death toll passes 1,100How cyclones and monsoon rains combined to devastate parts of Asia \u2013 visual guideCyclone Ditwah, which unleashed catastrophic flooding &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5088,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,455,313,156,70,61,674,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-extreme-weather","category-flooding","category-indonesia","category-malaysia","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5088"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75443,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75430\/revisions\/75443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}