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#WalangPasok: ‘Nando’ onslaught keeps students at home

Strong winds and heavy rains attributed to the effects of Super Typhoon ‘Nando’ (Ragasa) and the enhanced southwest monsoon or ‘habagat’ extended class suspensions...

Real Cost of Climate Extremes

This is an AI-generated cartoon with the prompt: A horizontal editorial cartoon in pen-and-ink with textured cross-hatching. A weary Filipino farmer stands at a...

Deadly floods inundate Indonesia’s Bali, Flores

JAKARTA – Flash floods swept two Indonesian islands, including tourist hotspot Bali, killing at least six people, with four others missing, the country’s disaster...

China endured hottest summer on record in 2025

BEIJING – China experienced its hottest summer on record in 2025, the meteorological authority said, as heatwaves continued to scorch the country’s south. Temperatures around...

Quezon City thunderstorm floods worse than ‘Ondoy’—scientist

A Filipino geologist and academician described the weekend flooding in Quezon City as a strange phenomenon, noting that the thunderstorm-induced rainfall on Saturday afternoon...

Igloo, Skyro offer insurance with flood coverage

Insurtech firm Igloo and fintech lender Skyro are expanding their partnership to launch a new insurance product that protects households from floods and fires. The...

Over 9.5m Filipinos affected by monsoon, storms—NDRRMC

More than 9.5 million people have been affected by the combined impact of the southwest monsoon (Habagat) and tropical cyclones Crising, Dante, and Emong,...

Leptospirosis cases surge in QC after weeks of nonstop rains

The Quezon City government on Sunday raised alarm over a sharp rise in leptospirosis cases, exacerbated by relentless rains and widespread flooding over the...

NLEX did a disservice to paying commuters

NLEX … failed to pass the test and disappointed many travelers. The recent heavy rains last week caused untold misery to thousands of commuters traveling...

Boats bring Philippine flood victims to safety as death toll rises

Bulacan, Philippines—Rescuers in the northern Philippines used boats to pick up residents stranded by flooding Friday as Typhoon Emong (Co-May) was downgraded to a tropical...

PAGASA lifts Signal No. 4 as ‘Emong’ weakens into severe tropical storm

Typhoon Emong has weakened into ‘severe tropical storm’ on Friday morning, prompting the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) to lift the...

Gearing up for Relief Work

The Office of the Vice President’s Disaster Operations Center gets ready with volumes of relief items for an estimated 4,000 families adversely affected by...

Why Filipinos keep smiling, even when it hurts

Life is expensive, but joy doesn’t have to be. In this time of soaring prices, when the rest of the world says, “You can’t...

Heavy floods displace thousands as new storm threatens

Manila, Philippines—Heavy flooding inundated the Philippines' capital on Tuesday, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee and schools and government offices to shut, while...
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