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Philippines�Search and rescue teams on Sunday struggled to reach areas of the northern Philippines cut off by storm-triggered landslides and flooding that have left more than 600 people dead, officials said. In the heavily-damaged northern province of...
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Philippines�Authorities have recovered 51 bodies from debris after a series of landslides occurred in La Trinidad, Benguet province, burying several homes in the process, the provincial police chief said on Friday. In a phone patch interview with reporters...
Tags: Philippines, Central Luzon, C Luzon, Northern Luzon, deaths toll, worst flooding, tropical cyclone, northern philippine, Benguet
Adding to the woes of a nation still recovering from the impact of two disastrous typhoons in as many weeks, flooding in the main island of Luzon would see the world’s biggest rice importer having to buy even more rice from other countries. Disaster management...
Tags: Philippines, northern philippine, Typhoon Parma, heavy rain, Tropical Depression Parma, Benguet Province, benguet provinces, Luzon, Nestor Fongwan, provincial governor
Parma headed north-west into the South China Sea yesterday after blowing across the north of the Philippines...Parma hit the main island of Luzon on Saturday, eight days after tropical storm Ketsana inundated the Manila area, killing almost 300 people.
Tags: Philippines, Typhoon Parma, Tropical Storm Parma, typhoons parma, Manila, northern philippine, Taiwan, widespread flooding, causing widespread, South China Sea
Philippines�Typhoon Pepeng (international codename: Parma) claimed its first recorded fatality on Saturday when one man drowned in the northern Philippines, police said. The man drowned after he was swept away by a strong current while trying to cross...
Tags: Philippines, Typhoon Parma, Philippine Atmospheric, typhoon pepeng, northern philippine, NE Luzon, Manila
Philippines�Many areas in the northern Philippines remained blacked out and cut off from communication on Sunday after Typhoon Pepeng (international name: Parma) struck, the government said as the storm headed away from the country. There have been only...
Tags: Typhoon Parma, Philippines, Taiwan, Luzon, northern philippine, Manila, heavy rain
A Canadian and one Filipino climber were found dead in a village in Capas, Tarlac, which was far from Mount Pinatubo. Rescuers are still looking for two other missing Canadian trekkers...Some 25,000 residents were affected by to landslides and floods.
Tags: Philippines-Two, Mount Pinatubo, Metro Manila, philippine floods, Capas, northern philippine, Tarlac Province
Typhoon Chan-Hom, the fifth to hit the Philippines this year, destroyed roads and bridges and felled power lines in several provinces on the main island, Luzon. Thirteen villagers were killed in landslides in northern Ifugao province, a mountainous area...
Tags: Philippines, Luzon, northern philippine, Cagayan Valley, Pangasinan, Typhoon Emong, boat capsized, deaths toll
The death toll after a ferry capsized in the northern Philippines continued to rise as the coastguard said Tuesday that the vessel was carrying twice its registered capacity. "Maejan" was carrying about a hundred passengers when it capsized off the northern...
Tags: Philippine Coast Guard, Philippines, Wilfredo Tamayo, death toll, PCG, Cagayan, northern philippine, intelligence personnel, Antique, ferry capsized
Nine others were rescued by two passing ships in turbulent waters off Calayan island on Tuesday night, Vice Admiral Wilfredo Tamayo said. "Those rescued were seen clinging to the half-submerged ship," Tamayo said, adding it was difficult to search for...
Tags: Philippines, Luzon Strait, Batanes Islands, Central Luzon, Sulpicio Lines Inc., Sulpicio Lines Inc., cargo ship, northern philippine, bad weather, The Philippine coast guard