Updates

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The Grand Family Association of the Phils. Inc. donated a total of Two Hundred Thousand Pesos (Php 200,000) to the Philippine National Red Cross for the victims of Typhoon 'Frank' last July 11, 2008...

Japanese Ambassador Makoto Katsura turned over today Japan 's additional emergency relief assistance for the Mindanao victims of Typhoon Frank and flash floods to Undersecretary Celia Yangco of the...

by ES Subong Iloilo City (11 July) - Prices of available rice in the market are stabilizing two weeks after typhoon Frank hit the provinces of Iloilo and Aklan. National Food Authority (NFA) OIC...

Roxas City (11 July) - The Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) handed in to the city government of Roxas a check for P120, 000.00 from a United States-based organization run by Filipinos for...

Over the next two months, Action Against Hunger will provide drinking water to 15,000 people in Mindanao and distribute food supplies to 7,500 people living on the islands of Corcuera and Banton. ...

Cebu City (11 July) - Over 3,000 family packs of basic relief goods are ready for delivery to affected families in northern Cebu, the hardest hit of the recent typhoon, according to Jaybee Carillo,...

Philippine National Red Cross Chairman Senator Richard Gordon was in Iloilo on Thursday, June 10, to oversee the installation of a portable water sanitation unit to provide clean and safe drinking...

by A. Lumaque Roxas City (11 July) - About 2,000 bags of relief goods will be distributed by the Roxas City Filipino-Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Inc. (RCFCCCI) at the Roxas City Band...

MANILA, 11 July 2008 (IRIN) - With more storms forecast over the next few months, the Philippine authorities have brought in international help to fast-track the salvaging of a ferry that sank off...

by T. Villavert Iloilo City (10 July) - Forty (40) tons of assorted relief goods arrived and unloaded on Wednesday at the Loboc International Port, Iloilo City. The cargo was transported through a...

The Government of Japan decided today to provide additional emergency assistance amounting to 20 million Japanese yen (approximately 8 million pesos) for the victims of Typhoon Frank and flash floods...

Philippine National Red Cross Chairman Senator Richard Gordon ordered the PNRC Social Services Unit in Surigao del Norte to activate its Tracing Services to help find at least five missing fishermen...

A joint European Union - United Nations expert team is being deployed today to the Philippines at the request of national authorities to assess the situation of a capsized ferry containing large...

by Venus Villanueva Kalibo, Aklan (10 July) - Donations received by the Provincial Disaster Coordination Council (PDCC) here for Aklan typhoon victims have reached a total of P40,257, 447.00 as of...

By Eli C. Dalupines Cebu City (9 July) - The Office of the Civil Defense (OCD) here urged the relatives of the fishermen from Cebu's northern towns who went missing at the height of typhoon "Frank"...

Cebu City (9 July) - Over 300 families have received P10,000 each in cash assistance from the Office of the President (OP) whose loved ones have either died or remains missing as MV Princess of the...

SIBUYAN ISLAND, 9 July 2008 (IRIN) Officials are racing against time to refloat the Princess of the Stars, which capsized on 21 June, amid concern that the toxic cargo inside its hold could leak and...

I. General Information: From June 19 - 23, 2008 Tropical Storm Fengshen, with winds of 140kph, hit the Philippines causing loss of lives, injuries and damage to properties in numerous regions across...