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As someone who is identified with the militant Left, Social Welfare secretary Judy Taguiwalo views anything associated with the US and other Western countries that are not socialist or communist as evil and having an ulterior agenda.…
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has called for strengthened disaster resilience among micro, small, and medium-size enterprises (MSMEs) through an enhanced partnership between the government and private sectors. Jerry Clavesillas, director of DTI’s Bureau of…
The last time I set foot in Tony Oposa’s “Paradise on Earth’ was five or so years ago, before Supertyphoon Yolanda a.k.a. Haiyan destroyed, or to borrow Tony’s word “erased’ the structures and Bantayan Island, for that…
Two years back, on November 8, Supertyphoon Yolanda, known globally as “Haiyan”, brought unprecedented losses and misery to thousands of citizens and visitors. Those in the cities thought that we had prepared for its onslaught. But as…
Parts of northern Cebu were left in the dark as Typhoon Ruby made its presence felt in these areas yesterday. Provincial Information Officer Ethel Natera said strong winds toppled seven electric poles from barangay Don Pedro to…
A relocation site in Sta. Fe town in Bantayan Island is using solar power to light up newly built housing units for supertyphoon Yolanda survivors. The 216 houses built by Habitat for Humanity are equipped with modular…
At least 502 families from Bogo City finally received their P30,000 cash assistance from the national government to help them purchase housing materials to replace those that they lost when typhoon Yolanda struck eight months ago. The…
Oxfam, for the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief, an independent group of 17 nongovernment organizations (NGOs) based in Oxford, Great Britain does not usually criticize governments in areas where it is engaged in humanitarian work. However, there…
Local officials in Cebu should prepare for a supertyphoon in the same magnitude as Yolanda (Haiyan). “You know that there will be another disaster. You don’t know when it will happen but you know it will happen.…
Football superstar David Beckham sets foot in Cebu, Thursday morning before flying to Tacloban City to visit survivors of supertyphoon Yolanda (Haiyan). Beckham arrived at the Mactan Cebu International Airport around 11 a.m. from Hong Kong. RELATED…
To be a beauty queen with a purpose is something that Anna Maris Igpit knows too well. Crowned Binibining Pilipinas World 2006 at 18, she has been practically on the spotlight ever since. So much so that when…
For villages still without electric power, plastic bottles can be turned into household light bulbs. “Solar night lights,” a simple technology being promoted for calamity-hit communities, costs P550 to P600 to make, said Joel Villanueva, director-general of…
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