One of the most powerful storms to hit the Philippines this year, typhoon “Glenda,” dealt Metro Manila only a glancing blow of about three hours Wednesday, but it was enough to shut down…
Motorists in Luzon are advised to keep updated on the weather situation in the next few days as tropical storm “Glenda” approaches landfall. The capital Metro Manila has been told to brace itself for typhoon “Milenyo”-like rain…
MANILA, Philippines — Damages to property caused by tropical depression “Agaton” in Mindanao have reached over P300 million, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said on Monday. The total cost of damage in Northern…
LEGAZPI CITY–Around 7,500 passengers were stranded at the Matnog port in Sorsogon due to turbulent seas, Rafael Bernardo Alejandro, Office of Civil Defense regional director, said Friday morning. He said that aside from this there was a…
LEGAZPI CITY, Philippines—Close to 2,500 passengers and more than a hundred vehicles were marooned since Monday evening at the Matnog port in Sorsogon while another four-kilometer queue of vehicles were waiting to get to the port amid…
OZAMIZ CITY, Philippines – Transportation between the northern and western regions of Mindanao is paralyzed as a bridge along the highway in Lanao del Norte gave way to flashfloods Monday evening, the authorities said. Hundreds of vehicles…
MEXICO CITY—Mexico says a 300-yard (meter) section of a highway near the U.S. border has collapsed, sinking about 100 feet (30 meters) after a series of small earthquakes. Mexico’s federal highway authority says the collapse occurred about…
MANILA, Philippines — The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has sent four teams to Tacloban and Ormoc in Leyte and Borongan in Eastern Samar to help in the ongoing rescue and clearing operations, particularly areas hit the…
TACLOBAN CITY, Philippines — The death toll from a supertyphoon that decimated entire towns in the Philippines could soar well over 10,000, authorities warned Sunday, making it the country’s worst recorded natural disaster. The horrifying estimates came…
