And look at the damage so far, two million acres of farmland flooded in the delta region.
The next wave is small power projects in the Pearl River Delta region.
The brunt of the storm hit Myanmar's delta region, the country's bread basket.
The kidnapping of foreigners and wealthy Nigerians is common in the oil-rich Niger Delta region, and has become a lucrative trade for criminals.
Five years ago, Cyclone Nargis struck Burma's Irrawaddy Delta region, killing at least 140, 000 people and leaving three million in urgent need of assistance.
Derrick Simmons, his grandmother's tales of life as a black woman in the Delta region under Jim Crow are indelibly etched in his political consciousness.
In the Delta region, the extraction of the country's wealth before their eyes has created a culture of discontent among the thousands of unemployed youths.
In June, up to 200 people were killed in fighting between three different groups in the oil-rich but underdeveloped Niger delta region around the town of Warri.
On Wednesday, authorities found McMillian's body near a levee between Sherard and Rena Lara, two unincorporated communities about 15 minutes away from Clarksdale in northwestern Mississippi's Delta region.
The kidnapping of foreigners and wealthy Nigerians is common in the oil-rich Niger Delta region, in the south of the country, and has become a lucrative trade for criminals.
BBC: Nigeria foreign workers abducted in Bauchi state - police
The new bird flu virus outbreak continues to dominate media headlines, as China Central Television reports 14 diagnosed cases and five deaths in the Yangtze River Delta region.
The author begins his travels in Nigeria, where Royal Dutch Shell started off Africa's relationship with the modern oil industry by striking black gold in the Delta region in 1958.
About a third of his nominees so far are from the previous cabinet, some of whom dealt with the most sensitive subjects such as the amnesty in the Delta region.
Wednesday, the Chinese Academy of Sciences said the H7N9 virus probably came from migratory birds from East Asia that mixed with domestic fowl in China's Yangtze River delta region around Shanghai.
CNN: WHO reports 5 new bird flu cases in China; total now 49
In the Niger Delta region, his homeland, where militants have long campaigned for a greater share of their land's oil revenues, he vowed to build on Mr Yar'Adua's amnesty of last summer.
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When Jonathan became vice president in 2007, MEND said its operations helped him gain national prominence, which propelled the neglected Niger Delta region and its largest ethnic group, the Ijaw, into the spotlight.
According to GEOS, a French firm, the insurgents who make pirate-like attacks on shipping in Nigeria's Delta region are very well armed and informed about targets, through contacts in the oil and shipping worlds.
Kidnappings of expatriate oil workers in the Niger Delta region by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) earlier this year have also increased concerns surrounding the security of the county's energy infrastructure.
This week's violence in the north comes on top of unceasing violence in the southern Niger Delta region, where an insurgency by militants demanding a bigger share of the country's oil wealth continues to disrupt oil exports.
Yet another open seat yawns in the impoverished Delta region in the south-east, where Marion Berry, a Clinton administration official who won his seat in 1996, also bowed out of a re-election bid in late January for health reasons.
ECONOMIST: A spirited scramble for suddenly open Democratic seats
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), the main rebel group fighting for political autonomy and local resource control in the oil-producing Niger Delta region, has called off its unilateral ceasefire, just weeks after announcing the move.
ECONOMIST: A big rebel group in the Niger Delta calls off its ceasefire
Professor Robert Englund of the University of California believes that the culture that flowered in this region around the delta that flows from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers formed the basis for what is almost certainly the world's oldest literary culture.
Shell's local subsidiary is the top foreign oil producer in the Niger Delta, an oil-rich region of mangroves and swamps about the size of Portugal.
In the 1980s, Bill Clinton, then governor of Arkansas, attempted to turn Helena into a bright tourist attraction by creating the Delta Cultural Centre to promote the region's rich blues tradition.
U.S. military installations in the Central Command region overseas moved overnight to Condition Delta, the highest level of alert, U.S. military sources said Wednesday.
According to Delta Vacations, flight and hotel packages to the region are up as much as 53% in the past year, as visitors discover that virtually everything here is new or improved, with great value propositions.
Chevron, Agip, ExxonMobil are among the other companies operating in the Delta, but Shell is the only company in the region to release regular reports on its operations.
Kashi, an American photojournalist, spent three years compiling his photos of the Niger Delta, making a total of five trips to the troubled region.
ASEAN's founders dreamed that their organization would one day span the whole region, from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific, from the Red River delta to the rice padis of Java.
Last year, a report by the United Nations Environment Programme said that over half a century of oil operation in the region, by firms including Shell, had caused deeper damage to the Ogoniland area of the Niger Delta than earlier estimated.
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