The Philippines deployed emergency teams across flooded and landslide-hit areas in northern regions of the main Luzon island on Monday as a powerful typhoon moved closer, weeks after two storms killed more than 850 people. Lupit, a category 4 typhoon packing centre winds of 175kph and
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Philippine emergency teams prepare as typhoon nears
October 19th, 2009 |
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Isolated Philippine mountain areas running low on food
October 12th, 2009 |
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Rescue workers in the northern Philippines were on Monday trying to clear roads so that food, water and other supplies could reach survivors of landslides that killed nearly 300 people. The National Disaster Coordinating Council in Manila said over 50 road sections and nine major bridges had
Rising lake threatens 100,000 near Philippine capital
October 2nd, 2009 |
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About 100,000 people living around a typhoon-swollen lake near the Philippine capital Manila should be relocated because the waters are unlikely to recede for two to three months, officials said on Friday. The water level rose by 1.2 metres in Laguna de Bay when Typhoon Ketsana dumped
Philippine floods victims brace for another typhoon
October 1st, 2009 |
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Millions of terrified flood victims in the Philippines, many of them in cramped evacuation camps or still cleaning their homes braced for another storm bearing down on the country. “We must prepare for the rain and the wind,” chief government weather forecaster Prisco Nilo said as Typhoon
Philippine coast guard rescues 19 from troubled cargo ship
September 7th, 2009 |
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An official says the Philippine coast guard has rescued 15 Filipinos and 4 South Koreans who abandoned a Panamanian-registered cargo ship that stalled then lost power in rough seas in the central Philippines. Coast guard commandant Admiral Wilfredo Tamayo says the M/V Hera, which was en
Former Philippine president Corazon Aquino dies
August 1st, 2009 |
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The Philippines mourn the death of its first woman president, Corazon Aquino, who died early Saturday in Manila at the age of 76. Her son announced the death. His mother had been battling colon cancer for over a year. She is known as the woman who defeated a dictator.
Former Philippine president Aquino passes away
August 1st, 2009 |
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Former Philippine president Corazon “Cory” Aquino, who died on Saturday at the age of 76, was a reluctant leader despite guiding her nation through a revolution that restored it to democracy in 1986. For three days in February of that year, the world watched as the woman in a bright yellow
Disgrasian: Philippine Prisoners Dance to Michael Jackson’s “Dangerous”
July 27th, 2009 |
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Once again, the prisoners at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center, where 70 percent of the inmates are convicted of serious crimes like murder,…