Typhoon Bopha

19 Feb 2013

When Super Typhoon Bopha struck without warning before dawn, flattening the walls of their home, Maria Amparo Jenobiagon, her two daughters and her grandchildren ran for their lives.

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Sluggish relief a blow to typhoon-hit Philippines

18 Feb 2013

Two months ago, Typhoon Bopha struck Mindanao in the southern Philippines. It's hard to explain the devastation that such a storm can wreak but, when I arrived there as an aid co-ordinator, I was...

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UN launches aid appeal for Philippine typhoon victims

25 Jan 2013

The United Nations launched an appeal on Friday for more international aid to help nearly a million people in the Philippines as they recover from last year’s deadliest typhoon in the world.

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Briefs, December 24, 2012

24 Dec 2012

Japan's incoming pro-nuclear premier, Shinzo Abe, said his government would again investigate the Fukushima atomic crisis, after which the country's reactors could be restarted.

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‘No Christmas’ for Philippine typhoon victims

23 Dec 2012

Survivors of a typhoon that ravaged the southern Philippines will bypass Christmas this year as they hole up in evacuation centres and continue to bury their dead, officials said on Sunday.

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Philippines typhoon death toll tops 1,000

16 Dec 2012

The death toll from a typhoon that devastated the southern Philippines earlier this month has topped 1,000 as hundreds more remain missing, the government said on Sunday.

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Opinion

Tom Holland

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

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Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

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Filipino fishermen rescued, 261 still missing

Low-flying search planes spotted three Filipino fishermen drifting at sea and flashing mirrors to signal for help, as authorities stepped up the search Wednesday for 261 others still missing.

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Typhoon reduces Philippine farmers to beggars

The secluded valley that sheltered Jerry Blanco’s banana crop from communist and Muslim rebellions offered no refuge from Typhoon Bopha, which left him destitute in seconds.

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UN launches Philippine typhoon aid appeal

The United Nations launched a US$65 million global aid appeal on Monday to help hundreds of thousands of people affected by a deadly typhoon that ravaged the Philippines.

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Briefs, December 10, 2012

Families beg for food in typhoon aftermath

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PHILIPPINES

Hundreds of fishermen missing in Philippine storm

The number of people missing after a typhoon devastated parts of the southern Philippines jumped to nearly 900 after families and fishing companies reported losing contact with more than 300...

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PHILIPPINES

Killer Typhoon Bopha heads back to Philippines

A powerful typhoon that has killed hundreds of people and wreaked devastation in the Philippines was set to smash into the country again today, forecasters warned.

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