Senator Grace Poe assured that next year’s budget has sufficient funds to ensure there is fast and timely relief to ...

A BALANCE of P1.284 billion remains under the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Fund (NDRRMF), which the government can still access until the end of the year. With calamity funds down ...

(MB file photo) While calamity funds historically dry up by September to October because of the typhoon season, the official cited ... that the government now has sources from which they can draw ...

All roads in these typhoon-prone islands should have anti ... It's time to seriously go back to the drawing board on how we ...

Drawing a parallel to the ad hoc commission ... CamSur’s recent experience with a single-day rainfall of 711 mm—surpassing Typhoon Ondoy’s 455 mm in 2009—highlights the need for such ...

The city government has declared a state of calamity as damage from the series of recent typhoons has reached more than ...

AURORA, Philippines — Aurora has been placed under a state of calamity due to the devastation ... Storm Nika (international name: Toraji) and Typhoon Ofel (Usagi), which pummeled the province ...

Typhoon Man-yi has left at least seven people dead in a landslide, destroyed houses and displaced large numbers of villagers ...

With winds of up to 125 mph, Typhoon Man-yi was among the most powerful of six major storms to strike the northern Philippines in less than a month.

“They have not recovered from the previous storms when the super typhoon hit,” Gianan told The Associated Press. “It’s been one calamity after another.” The rare number of back-to-back ...