Cuba: 110 died in plane crash, 3 survivors ‘critical’

AP 05/20/2018

HAVANA — The only three survivors of Cuba’s worst aviation disaster in three decades were clinging to life Saturday, a day after their passenger jet crashed in a fireball in Havana’s rural outskirts with 113 people on…

Yolanda survivors look back as they move on

Morexette Erram 11/08/2017

DAANBANTAYAN ONCE the construction of the comfort room in her new house is finished, Iluminada Aloba, 60, can say that a semblance of normalcy has finally returned to her life, and that of her 10 grandchildren living…

4 years after Super Typhoon Yolanda: Survivors’ tales of woe in need of a happy ending

Victor Anthony V. Silva 11/07/2017

Even after four years, Jose Lomocso still remembers the wrath of Super Typhoon Yolanda (international name Haiyan) like it happened only yesterday. “Mura gyud lagi og gibombahan ang lungsod (The whole town looked like it was bombed),”…

PADDLE TO INSPIRE

James Nicole Franz R. Savellon 10/03/2017

Cebu Pink Paddlers, made up of breast cancer survivors, win two golds in Taiwan race A group of breast cancer survivors from Cebu put up an inspiring performance in the Keelung International Dragon Boat Festival in Keelung…

Six survivors pulled out of collapsed building in Kananga, Leyte

Connie E. Fernandez, Inquirer.net 07/07/2017

Cheers broke out after rescuers pulled out six people from what used to be a three-story building in Kananga town, Leyte which collapsed after a magnitude 6.5 earthquake shook the province on Thursday afternoon. Nerissa Superales, a…

More survivors arrive from Marawi City

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 06/02/2017

CEBU CITY—At least 14 families, or 62 individuals, arrived in Cebu City to escape from the ongoing gun-battle in Marawi City, Lanao del Sur, where government troops were fighting members of Maute-ISIS terror group. The evacuees came…

Pols, martial law survivors decry ‘climate of fear’ under Duterte

Inquirer.net 02/25/2017

Survivors of martial law, millennials and militants gathered at the People Power monument in Quezon City to commemorate the 31st anniversary of the Edsa People Power Revolution on Saturday. Also present were former President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino…

Enrique Iglesias thanks ‘Yolanda’ child survivors for Valentine cards

02/16/2016

INTERNATIONAL singer Enrique Iglesias thanked kindergarten Yolanda survivors from Tacloban City after he received handmade Valentine cards from them for the day of hearts. “I am honored to receive these hopeful messages from children in the Philippines.…

Pilar survivors scared to ride vessel home

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Victor Anthony V. Silva 07/05/2015

SURVIVORS of the capsizing of the MB Kim Nirvana-B who were supposed to go home to Pilar, Camotes Island yesterday declined to do so after being traumatized by Thursday’s mishap. Pilar Major Jesus Fernandez said the survivors…

‘Why no life vests for the passengers?’

Contributor 07/05/2015

A PASIG City lawmaker questioned why the owner of the capsized MV Kim Nirvana-B failed to provide life vests to passengers upon boarding the vessel last Thursday. In a press statement, Pasig City Rep. Roman Romulo said…

Coop helps Sevilla quake survivors get back on their feet

Melissa Q. Cabahug 06/01/2015

She almost lost everything when the 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit Bohol province on October 15, 2013, but she did not lose hope and believed that she could survive the greatest challenge of her life. Annabelle Paler, 49, said…

Bantayan survivors turn to loan sharks

Peter L. Romanillos 11/09/2014

Sta. Fe, Bantayan Island—With government’s emergency shelter aid still unreleased a year after supertyphoon Yolanda (Haiyan), survivors in this town turned to loan sharks to fund the repair of their homes. Nearly half of the 5,000 affected…

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