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From Ulysses’ debris, Marikina residents move on

Ulysses (international name: Vamco) did not pack enough wind power to be categorized by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration as a supertyphoon, but its arrival spelled disaster for Metro Manila all the same.

From Ulysses’ debris, Marikina residents move on

Storm drill to save Malabon residents

[metaslider id=29720]     By JANE DASAL AS soon as the siren rang, they ran. Armed with “bakwit”or evacuee bags containing food, water and emergency supplies, residents of Barangay Potrero in Malabon City set out from their homes and lined up for barangay trucks to take them to evacuation centers as their shelter during typhoons.

Storm drill to save Malabon residents

A city in ruins

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

A city in ruins

Hunger rises after ‘Ondoy,’ ‘Pepeng’

HUNGER among Filipinos has risen nationwide, from 17.5 percent in September to 18.9 percent in October, after the onslaught of storm “Ondoy” and typhoon “Pepeng,” according to a special survey conducted by the Social Weather Stations. The October figure represents about 3.5 million families, with the increase recorded mainly in Luzon outside Metro Manila, according

Hunger rises after ‘Ondoy,’ ‘Pepeng’

The week after ‘Ondoy’

When storm “Ondoy” (“Ketsana”) struck on Sept. 26, the morning after was a picture of a devastated capital, a people in anguish and a nation at its weakest.

The week after ‘Ondoy’