The national disaster response agency said Thursday that heavy rains and floods that devastated parts of the Philippines over the Christmas weekend killed at least 32 people and left 24 missing. After bad weather disrupted Christmas celebrations in the eastern, central, and
An altercation in the disputed South China Sea resulted in the Chinese coast guard forcibly seizing floating debris that the Philippine navy was bringing to its island, according to a Philippine military officer on Monday. It looked that the debris was from
According to authorities, a Korean Air plane overshot the runway while landing in bad weather in the central Philippines late Sunday, but all 173 people on board were unharmed. According to the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines, the airport on Mactan
Typhoon Noru was churning at sea, with sustained winds of 121 mph and gusts of up to 149 mph. A violent typhoon altered and quickly gained intensity Sunday as it swept closer to the northeastern Philippines, triggering evacuations from high-risk communities and
A significant Earth Quake struck the northern Philippines on Wednesday morning, killing at least four, injuring dozens, and damaging more than a hundred buildings across the region. According to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, the 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck the province
