News Source: Xtra News
| about 1 month ago
A New Zealand World Vision worker is in the Philippines to assist the relief effort following typhoon Ketsana, which left 80 percent of the country flooded a week ago. World Vision's humanitarian and emergency adviser Tristan Clements arrived in the...
News Source: Reuters
| about 1 month ago
A "super typhoon" bearing down on the Philippines has slightly changed course and is only expected to clip the far north of the archipelago later on Saturday, officials said. Typhoon Parma brought rains and strong winds to the Philippines' eastern...
News Source: The Age
| about 1 month ago
Weather officials said Parma, billed as a "supertyphoon", altered course toward the northernmost tip of the Philippines' Luzon island. It was now expected to land on Saturday evening on the province of Cagayan, north of its earlier predicted landfall...
News Source: Gulf News
| about 1 month ago
Cainta, one of the towns east of Metro Manila that was hard hit by typhoon Ketsana (Ondoy) last Saturday. We can't estimate the effects of typhoon Pepeng but it is expected to bring rains to many areas on the eastern side of the country (just like...
News Source: The Age
| about 1 month ago
Parma, which was originally forecast to hit the northern Philippine province of Aurora on Saturday morning, is now predicted to make landfall on Saturday afternoon, the forecasters said. The typhoon was originally moving northwest at 19 kilometres...
News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| about 1 month ago
Tens of thousands of people in the Philippines have been evacuated from their communities ahead of a possible "super typhoon" that is expected to curb relief efforts after a deadly storm earlier in the week. Israel freed 19 Palestinian women...