ENFORCING forced evacuation of residents of landslide- and flood-prone areas in mountain barangays is made more difficult with the absence of suitable relocation sites.

The country can expect rainy weather on the eve of the New Year’s celebration, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said in its Special Weather Outlook report released yesterday.

One of Indonesia's most active volcanoes erupted Tuesday, spewing clouds of ash and panicking villagers but no evacuation has been ordered so far, a government vulcanologist said.

Tens of thousands of flash flood survivors in the Philippines face life in tent cities for months while safe areas to resettle them are sought, a top relief official said Monday.

Three persons  were crushed to death by a   palm tree, locally known as buli,  which fell on two houses in sitio Kalubihan, barangay Labogon, Mandaue City,  shortly after midnight. The fatalities were identified as  Romeo Dimpas, 44,  and his wife Teresa, 45,  and a neighbor   Richard Herodiaz, 27. The  5-ton ...

A HEAVY downpour caused a portion of the 200-meter riprap to collapse in the Mahiga Creek n sitio San Isidro II, barangay Mabolo, in Cebu City, last Friday. With this, the Cebu City Disaster Coordinating Council (CCDC) said it was timely that workers had demolished  illegal dwellings there earlier in ...

A baby girl  survived being crushed by boulders that fell on her grandfather’s home in Naga City, south Cebu. The landslide took place 11 a.m. Saturday in barangay Naalad, but it wasn’t until yesterday that the full extent of the landslide was seen by government geologists. The baby’s  father Reynante ...

TOKYO – Typhoon Songda churned northeast along Pacific coasts in southern Japan Sunday, bringing with it heavy rains and staying on course to hit Tokyo as it weakened, weather officials said. It was expected to be downgraded to a depression late Sunday but could still dump torrential rain on the ...