'Pablo:' At least 7 dead, 24 missing

MANILA, Philippines (2nd UPDATE) – Typhoon "Pablo" (international name: Bopha) killed at least 7 people on Tuesday, December 4, as the strongest storm to hit the country this year forced more than 50,000 to seek refuge in emergency shelters, officials said. Six people were killed, including an elderly...

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'Pablo' kills 2 upon landfall - Official

MANILA, Philippines – Typhoon Pablo claimed two lives after it made landfall on Davao Oriental early Tuesday morning, December 4, officials said. A 22-year-old man from Caraga town, Rossel Anong, died after he fell from the stairs and hit his head, according to provincial police director Senior...

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Black Tuesday: Netizens rally vs Anti-Cybercrime law

MANILA, Philippines – Various groups opposing Republic Act (RA) No. 10175 or the Cybercrime Prevention Act trooped to Padre Faura in Manila to call on the Supreme Court (SC) to strike down controversial provisions of the law and restrain government from implementing these provisions. Their protest...

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Jesse Robredo confirmed dead, DILG secretary dies in plane crash

Jesse Robredo, Secretary of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), has been proclaimed dead after his lifeless body was recovered at the crash site off the coast of Masbate City. Teary-eyed, transportation and communications secretary Mar Roxas broke the sad news on Tuesday, August 21, 2012 at the search and rescue...

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Downpours, flooding swamp Manila

Deadly torrential rains submerged much of the Philippine capital and surrounding areas yesterday, forcing nearly 270,000 people to flee their homes with more flooding expected in the north of the country as a tropical storm passes through the region, officials said. Steady rains for the past 10...

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Philippine flag raised today at London Olympic Village

LONDON — In its first official act as member of the London Olympic family, Team Philippines will join several other nations in the traditional welcome and flag-raising rites on Saturday inside the  sprawling Games Village, home to more than 15,000 athletes and officials from 204 nations in the next three weeks. Nine athletes and a handful of...

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Dolphy dies at 83, on the 10th of July 2012 at Makati Medical Center

Rodolfo Vera Quizon a.k.a. Dolphy has died aged 83 just short of his birthday about the 25th of July in the intensive care unit with the MMC or Makati Medical. He was taken there about the 9th of June struggling with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and confined under intensive...

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Magnitude 6.8 Hits East Coast of Honshu Japan

After a year, another earthquake with magnitude of 6.8 hits the east coast of Honshu, Japan. This was the place where the magnitude 9.0 earthquake hit last year, March 11, 2011.  More information about this earthquake, http://goo.gl/x3w2H Tsunami alert is now raised to Japan and to...

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California surfers waited in water for tsunami

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. -- Some California surfers rode high water from a tsunami caused by the Japanese earthquake, while other beaches were closed.In Santa Cruz, it was a typical good day for surfing before the water pulled out of Monterey Bay toward the Pacific Ocean when the tsunami hit.Around 8:10 a.m., within seconds, the water dropped by about 9...

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Washington Coast Tsunami Advisory still in effect at 3:30 p.m. Friday

SOUTH BEND - The Pacific County Emergency Management Council is advising residents that the West Coast Alaska Tsunami Warning Center has downgraded the tsunami warning along the coasts of California and Oregon to an advisory, there is no change in the tsunami advisory along the Washington Coast.The PCEMA Council is advising residents of Pacific County...

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