News Source: The Jakarta Post
| about 1 month ago
Ambassador Vidal Erfe Querol said on Tuesday Filipinos had collected and sent $10,850 in cash to the Philippines Red Cross and social welfare services to help victims of typhoons in the Philippines, which have killed hundreds and left thousands...
News Source: Business World
| about 1 month ago
Arroyo’s performance has intensified further across most regions and all social classes, the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey, conducted Sept. 18-21, showed. Results of the third-quarter survey showed Mrs. Arroyo’s net satisfaction...
News Source: IRIN
| about 1 month ago
The Philippine government has estimated the cost of the damages wrought by the storms as 9.77 billion pesos ($209.4 million). Tropical storm Ketsana hit Manila and central Luzon on 26 September, inundating about 80 percent of the capital and killing...
News Source: Inquirer.net
| about 1 month ago
Officials are looking into reports that relief goods re-packed in Malaca�ang and transported by trucks to disaster-stricken areas in Metro Manila are now being raffled off to flood victims. ``I'll have to find out how true the reports are,''...
News Source: GMA News
| about 1 month ago
Malacañang on Wednesday urged its critics to set politics aside as the nation struggles to recover from the havoc caused in succession by tropical storm �Ondoy" and typhoon �Pepeng." Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita made the statement in...
News Source: GMA News
| about 1 month ago
Aid workers assisted by Filipino and U.S. troops took advantage of improving weather Wednesday to distribute food supplies, bring in medical teams and clear debris in areas slowly recovering from devastating floods. As floodwaters triggered by a Sept.