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At a briefing at the Philippine Stock Exchange on Tuesday, company officials cited measures such as ensuring that all operating units have adequate power supply even during period of prolonged power outage and activating emergency responses during calamities.
Tags: Philippine Stock Exchange, Philippines, Manila, SM Investments, Business Finance, SM Prime Holdings, SM City Sta. Mesa, Typhoon Ketsana, Cities in the Philippines, Typhoon Parma, Luzon, Pacific typhoon season, Typhoons in the Philippines, China, Disaster Accident, Weather, Environment
Nearly 1,000 people died as a result of the disasters – Tropical Storm Ketsana and Typhoons Parma and Mirinae – which affected around 9.8 million people and destroyed over 40,000 homes. These areas are likely to remain flooded for another three or four...
Tags: Philippines, Manila, Typhoon Ketsana, China, Pacific typhoon season, Typhoons in the Philippines, Disaster Accident, Weather, Environment, Typhoon Parma, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations, Food and Agriculture Organization, Humanitarian aid, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan, Politics
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
Pepeng" ravaged Baguio with persistent rains in the past 18 hours on Thursday evening, leaving 19 fatalities and several towns in the country's summer capital virtually underwater. The Philippine Information Agency-Cordillera Administrative Region said...
Tags: N. Philippines, Baguio City, Benguet, Typhoon Parma, Luzon, benguet province, heavy rain, marcos highways, Cordillera, tropical depression
Two powerful back-to-back storms have left more than a million people without basic necessities such as food, clean water and shelter. The first, tropical storm Ketsana, slammed into the Philippines late last month causing widespread damage and record...
Tags: Philippines, flooding victims, Typhoon Ketsana, Typhoon Parma, Manila
Muslim extremists have shot dead a soldier and wounded another in the southern Philippines, a week after two American troops were killed in an attack in the same area, an official said Tuesday. The Marines were providing security for military engineers...
Tags: Philippines, Abu Sayyaf, Typhoon Parma, Manila, southern philippine, Sulu, United Nations, military spokesman, MajorRamon David Hontiveros, Tropical Storm Ketsana
Tropical storm Parma lashed Ilan County with abundant rain Monday, while its government came under fire for repeated revisions of a typhoon school holiday. The eye of the storm hardly moved from its position Monday, 250 kilometers southwest from Eluanbi,...
Tags: Typhoon Parma, Taiwan
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
More than 34,584 military servicemen around Taiwan and on several outlaying islands were ready to respond to calls for rescue and relief operations during the onslaught of Typhoon Parma, the Ministry of National Defense said yesterday. In a press release,...
Tags: Taiwan, Typhoon Parma, Typhoon Morakot, China Post
Taipei, Oct. 4 (CNA) The Central Weather Bureau (CWB) issued a land warning for the Hengchun peninsula in southern Taiwan Sunday as medium Typhoon Parma continued its approach to the country. Parma, with winds gusting up to 162 kilometers per hour, was...
Tags: Taiwan, Typhoon Parma, typhoons parma, Central Weather Bureau, Philippines, Taipei District Court, Taipei Show Chwan Hospital