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Inside the Philippines’ $2-billion flood-control scandal
Published on 17/12/2025
» Senator Francis Pangilinan leaned into his microphone and fired off numbers in pesos: 50 million? 10 million? 100 million? “You withdrew this in cash?”
When flood warnings come too late
News, Published on 29/11/2025
» Pictures can speak a thousand words; images can induce rivers of tears and break so many hearts. Viral images are too grim to look at. Thirty newborns in a darkened ward. Nurses working by flashlight. Outside, streets had become rivers. Parents could not reach their children. In Hat Yai, the water pushed past the second floor.
Drones expected to speed Thai flood relief
Published on 27/11/2025
» HAT YAI - Flood rescue teams in Thailand readied drones to deliver aid on Thursday and helicopters dropped supplies to people marooned on rooftops as waters receded, raising hope for more ground evacuations.
Colder weather forecast until Saturday
News, Published on 27/11/2025
» Parts of Thailand, including Bangkok, will experience colder weather until Saturday, forecasters said on Thursday, confirming that Typhoon Koto in the South China Sea will not enter the country.
Philippines freezes $200m in assets linked to flood graft
Published on 26/11/2025
» MANILA - The Philippine government has frozen more assets allegedly linked to graft-ridden flood control projects, raising the total to 12 billion pesos ($204 million), President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said on Wednesday.
Harvester shortage hurting border rice farmers
Surachai Piragsa, Published on 20/11/2025
» BURI RAM - Rice farmers in Ban Kruat district bordering Cambodia are worriedly waiting for harvesters as they race to bring in the crop, as high demand and border tensions have led to a shortage of equipment and operators.
Vietnam flood death toll reaches 16
Published on 20/11/2025
» HANOI - The death toll from a new round of torrential rain, flooding and landslides in central Vietnam since the weekend has risen to 16, a government report said on Thursday, with water levels rising further in already inundated towns and villages.
Australia says Chinese hackers probing telecoms, key facilities
Reuters, Published on 12/11/2025
» SYDNEY — Australia's spy chief said on Wednesday hackers working for China's government and military had probed the country's telecoms network and key infrastructure, warning against the risk of economic disruption from sabotage.
Typhoon Fung-wong brings floods to Taiwan, thousands evacuated
Reuters, Published on 12/11/2025
» TAIPEI - Taiwan evacuated more than 8,300 people ahead of Wednesday's arrival of a much-weakened Typhoon Fung-wong that brought heavy downpours to the mountainous east coast and unleashed floods that ran neck-high in places.
Philippines digs out from Typhoon Fung-wong as death toll climbs to 18
AFP, Published on 11/11/2025
» TUGUEGARAO CITY — Rescuers using backhoes and chainsaws began digging the Philippines out from the devastation of Typhoon Fung-wong on Tuesday, as floodwaters receded in hundreds of villages and the storm's death toll climbed to 18.