Tag: floods
Decades of flood controls yet we’re still underwater
Congressional pork barrels are mainly in Flood Management Programs. Rivers are to be dredged, but none actually takes place.
Update: Death toll due to torrential rains, floods in southern Philippines...
The agency said of the 25 reported deaths, two were from Region 8 (Eastern Visayas) and one from Region 9 (Zamboanga Peninsula)
Mindanao prelate calls for prayers, aid for flood victims in southern...
Authorities on Monday reported eight people dead and 19 missing after incessant rains inundated parts of the country
Update: Death toll due to torrential rains, floods rises to 13
The flooding dampened Christmas celebrations on the mainly Catholic nation's most important holiday
Updated: Philippines floods force tens of thousands to flee homes
The southern Philippines has been hit with bad weather as the disaster-prone nation of 110 million people began a long Christmas holiday
Five dead, more than 70,000 evacuated in Malaysia floods
More than 31,000 people have fled their homes in Kelantan state while more than 39,000 residents have been evacuated to temporary shelters
Floods sweep future from Pakistan schoolchildren
In Pakistan, where a third of the country lives in hardship on less than US$4 a day, education is a rare ticket out of grinding poverty
More rain on the way as Philippine storm death toll hits...
More than 355,400 people fled their homes as Severe Tropical Storm Nalgae pounded swathes of the archipelago nation late last week
Survivor recalls ‘rumbling’ in the dark as mud buries village chapel...
The victims belong to the Teduray, one of the Philippines' many small indigenous tribes who live hardscrabble lives on the edge of society
Tropical storm batters Philippine capital before exit
The death toll from the storm rose to 48, most of them from a series of flash floods and landslides in Mindanao
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