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Tag: typhoon Yolanda

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    Categories FACT CHECK

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Claim that foreign donations for Yolanda victims unaudited FALSE

    By VERA Files  |  Dec 09, 2021 1:58 PM

    Based on its 2014 report, COA created audit teams that focused on the sources and receipt of foreign aid, the release of local funds by the budget department and other offices, the inter-agency transfer of funds, procurement and logistics, and the distribution of goods and services.

    COA, Noynoy Aquino, typhoon Yolanda, Yolanda

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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

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    Categories Commentary Editor's Pick

    Time to hold Duterte accountable now

    By Antonio Montalvan II  |  Nov 15, 2020 11:01 PM

    Supertyphoon Yolanda battered Benigno Aquino III’s vaunted reputation before the world as a competent Philippine president.

    Rodrigo Duterte, typhoon Ulysses, typhoon Yolanda

  • Categories Arts & Culture Yahoo

    Manicani: A tough little island

    Nov 19, 2014 11:31 PM

        By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS Photos by ACE ESMERALDA and ELLEN TORDESILLAS MANICANI  today hardly bears signs of the havoc wrought by supertyphoon “Yolanda” (international name: Haiyan) a year […]

    Manicani, typhoon Yolanda

  • Categories Arts & Culture Yahoo

     New UNICEF Rep is a Balikbayan

    Jun 24, 2014 10:07 PM

      By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS FOR Lotta Sylwander, her assignment to the Philippines as UNICEF Representative, is actually a homecoming. Sylwander, from Sweden, was a backpack tourist way back in […]

    typhoon Yolanda, Unicef

  • Categories Top Stories Yahoo

    PH not doing badly at all in post- Yolanda rehab: Humanitarian groups

    May 10, 2014 2:01 AM

    By APRIL ANNE BENJAMIN THE Aquino government, which is being criticized for the slow pace of rehabilitation of typhoon Yolanda-hit areas in the Visayas, has found defenders in international humanitarian […]

    European Union, typhoon Haiyan, typhoon Yolanda

  • Categories News Video

    Red Cross to build storm-resilient houses for Yolanda victims

    May 07, 2014 11:52 AM

    By KIERSNERR GERWIN TACADENA AFTER typhoon Yolanda struck the Philippines last November, Jimmy Gagarino found himself, his wife and nine children living under a makeshift shelter with a tarpaulin for […]

    Red Cross, typhoon Yolanda, Yolanda

  • Categories Arts & Culture

    Child-friendly spaces for Yolanda survivors

    Jan 13, 2014 8:37 PM

      By XANTHE KAMILLE ALMONGUERA and HAZEL P. VILLA Photos by XANTHE KAMILLE ALMONGUERA Where two months ago, children cowered in fear as typhoon Yolanda battered the fishing town of […]

    Child-friendly Spaces, typhoon 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 […]

    Tacloban, typhoon Yolanda

  • Categories Arts & Culture Yahoo

    Counting blessings despite Yolanda’s destruction

    Dec 28, 2013 12:01 AM

      Text and photos by  DANIEL ABUNALES NAVAL, Biliran – Every year, residents from Talustusan, a community 20 minutes away from this town, gather on Christmas eve at their community […]

    Biliran, Talustusan, typhoon Yolanda

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