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Tag: Tacloban

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    Categories Earth Files Editor's Pick News

    Wiser and stronger after surviving typhoon Haiyan

    By Luis Liwanag  |  Nov 25, 2021 1:22 PM

    Time has not erased from the mind of Nick and Doris “Chai” Quieta what happened on November 8, 2013. Nor has it healed the pain and suffering that typhoon Haiyan brought to their families and that of more than 7, 000 others who perished in that tragedy.

    Haiyan, Leyte, November 8 2013, Tacloban, typhoon Haiyan, typhoon Yolanda, Yolanda

  • Categories Banner Yahoo

    Sex traffickers prey on ‘Yolanda’ children

    Nov 10, 2014 6:00 AM

    Text and photos by AVIGAIL M. OLARTE TACLOBAN CITY – On the bed is where she could end it, she thought. She’s 16, he’s six months old. Alyssa (not her real name) was sold for sex one night last year. On board a docked ship in Leyte, in a locked room, a Japanese repeatedly raped […]

    Children, Tacloban, Trafficking, Yolanda

  • Categories Banner Yahoo

    3 faces of post- Yolanda Tacloban PNoy didn’t see

    Nov 08, 2014 7:03 PM

       By JOHNNA VILLAVIRAY  GIOLAGON TACLOBAN, Leyte –President Aquino marked the first anniversary of the super typhoon Yolanda (international name, Haiyan) one day earlier in Guiuan, Eastern Samar, where the typhoon made its first landfall early morning of Nov. 8, 2013. It was in Tacloban in Leyte that Yolanda wrought the most damage. Leyte residents […]

    Tacloban, Yolanda

  • Categories Arts & Culture Yahoo

    ‘Yolanda’ fiberglass boats modern-day Noah’s ark

    Apr 23, 2014 8:25 AM

    By JANE DASAL IF you want to save the earth, build a boat. That’s what a group of environmentalists is saying, especially if you want to save both the forests and fishermen affected by supertyphoon “Yolanda” (Haiyan). “Haiyan sank about 30,000 bancas. Fishermen in hard-hit communities need to get back in the water and on […]

    Earth Day, environment, Haiyan, Palawan, Tacloban, Yolanda

  • Categories Arts & Culture Uncategorized Yahoo

    Refugee life in Tacloban: the abnormal becomes normal

    Jan 05, 2014 9:06 PM

      By MITCH MENEZ Photos by LITTLE WING LUNA THERE is an inside joke amongst volunteer workers  in Tacloban that one must wear long pants, rub one’s  body with  Off lotion and sleep inside the  mosquito net. If not, you will be flown by those  blood-sucking flies in mosquito land. The swarm of mosquitoes in […]

    Tacloban, typhoon Yolanda

  • Categories First Person Photos Top Stories Video

    Like a post-apocalyptic Hollywood movie

    Nov 17, 2013 9:01 AM

    Text and photos by LUIS LIWANAG NATURAL disasters and extreme weather phenomena have become so routine lately that to hear the impending landfall of another supertyphoon failed to whet my appetite for another adrenaline-charged news coverage. Spending time with family and keeping my word on commitments to friends were at the top of my list […]

    Cebu, Haiyan, Luis Liwanag, Ormoc, Tacloban, typhoon Yolanda

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    Tacloban trembles as it struggles to rise from Yolanda’s ruins

    Nov 15, 2013 10:37 PM

     By JOHNNA VILLAVIRAY GIOLAGON TACLOBAN CITY –Liannie Marie Nunez marches along the dark ground floor corridor or the Eastern Visayas Medical Center with a single-minded determination. As head nurse of the only operating hospital in Tacloban, her own personal losses take a backseat to the responsibilities of her profession. “We’re survivors,” she said with a […]

    Tacloban, typhoon Yolanda

  • Categories Photos Top Stories Video

    Mass burial in Tacloban

    Nov 15, 2013 12:40 PM

    Text and photos by LUIS LIWANAG TACLOBAN CITY—The city government of Tacloban finally buried the dead in a shallow ditch that officials said was just a temporary resting place for those who perished from the wrath of Typhoon Yolanda. Cadavers wrapped in body bags, blankets, mats and even GI sheets collected from all over the […]

    Haiyan, mass burial, Tacloban, typhoon Yolanda, Yolanda

  • Categories Banner News

    A war amid disaster?

    Nov 14, 2013 3:28 PM

    Text and photos by LUIS LIWANAG TACLOBAN, Leyte–Residents of this city and nearby towns joined an exodus toward safety Wednesday, after hearing of reports of an alleged gunfight between soldiers and leftist guerillas, who were supposed to have held hostage food convoys. People scampered away from Alang-alang town where an alleged gunfight involving New People’s […]

    Haiyan, Leyte, Luis Liwanag, Tacloban, Yolanda

  • Categories Banner Video

    A city in ruins

    Nov 14, 2013 6:44 AM

    Text and photos by LUIS LIWANAG ORMOC City—The city of Ormoc in Leyte was just a speck in the horizon but to 38-year-old Marie Jean Decio, it was a place she could see and smell, a place that would bring her closer to her six children. Marie Jean traveled almost four hours by fast craft […]

    disaster, Haiyan, Leyte, Ormoc, Tacloban, typhoon, Yolanda

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