Philippine

Flood situation in India: More water released, threat looms large

The rising Ganga has started creating panic in the minds of the people living in Katri belt. The Ganga was reported to be dangerously flowing and was rising by half-a-centimetre with each passing hour. The gravity of the situation could be gauged from the fact that the ghats in Bithoor have completely submerged under water. Similar was the situation at the city ghats. All the prominent ghats are flooded with water. 
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/floods

Philippines ramps up flood relief efforts

Philippines ramps up flood relief efforts - 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19190685

Hundreds of thousands of people have sought refuge at evacuation centres in Manila

Efforts are under way in the Philippines to help hundreds of thousands of people affected by deadly floods that have paralysed the capital, Manila, and nearby areas.

Philippines ramps up flood relief efforts: Hundreds of thousands of people have sought refuge at evacuation centres in Manila. Efforts are under way in the Philippines to help hundreds of thousands of people affected by deadly floods that have paralysed the capital, Manila, and nearby areas.

Philippines Floods: Appeal for help

MANILA: Philippine authorities appealed Thursday for help in getting relief to two million people affected by deadly floods in and around the capital, warning that evacuation centres were overwhelmed. After more than a month’s worth of rain was dumped on Manila in 48 hours, entire districts remained submerged although overflowing rivers had started to recede and neck-high waters seen earlier were typically down to knee deep. 
http://www.thenews.com.pk/article-62646-Appeal-to-help-Philippine-flood-victims

Philippines: UNFAO urges PHL to create more agri jobs

 Farmers in Pulilan, Bulacan harvest palay on Wednesday after labor-intensive months of cultivation. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization encourages the Philippines to create more jobs, particularly in agriculture, to achieve food security and reduce poverty. Danny Pata 
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/photo/21792/unfao-urges-phl-to-create-more-agri-jobs

Philippines: Urges China to weigh remarks over Panatag Shoal with reality

  President Benigno Aquino III on Thursday urged the Chinese government to balance their statements with what is happening on the ground, saying the Philippines never issued a provocative statement against China. Aquino further said that it has been three weeks since he ordered the pullout of government ships in Panatag Shoal due to bad weather. The Chinese authorities withdrew their ships as well but they returned after a few days. 
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/264255/news/nation/pnoy-urges-china-to-weigh-remarks-over-panatag-shoal-with-reality

Chinese syndicates behind drug trade in Philippines, says US

Ethnic Chinese organized crime groups have been the primary sources and financiers of methamphetamine hydrochloride (shabu) trafficking in the Philippines, according to the US Department of State. In its International Narcotics Strategy Report, the department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (Binlea) has also named China and India as the “primary sources of chemicals used to make synthetic drugs,” which are increasingly being produced in the Philippines, Malaysia and Cambodia.
China is also a source of precursor chemicals, like acetic anhydride, used in the production of heroin, Binlea said, noting that the seizure of acetic anhydride in Mexico in 2011 was traced back to China. 
http://globalnation.inquirer.net/41837/chinese-syndicates-behind-drug-trade-in-philippines-says-us

102-year-old Filipino man becomes US citizen

   LOS ANGELES—A 102-year-old Filipino man who came to the U.S. as a youth in 1928 to pick vegetables became a citizen during a touching naturalization ceremony in Los Angeles. “I’m happy,” Philippines-born Joaquin Arciago Guzman said in his native Tagalog after Wednesday’s ceremony, where about 7,300 joined him in taking the citizenship oath. Only 27 people older than 100 have become citizens in the past 50 years, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. 
http://globalnation.inquirer.net/42051/102-year-old-filipino-man-becomes-us-citizen

Philippines: Provincial governor says rival tried to kill him

  MANILA, Philippines (AP) – A Philippine provincial governor says his political rival tried to kill him and his brother months before a 2009 election-related massacre of 57 people. Esmael Mangudadatu, governor of southern Maguindanao province, testified at the massacre trial Thursday that the main suspect in the 2009 killings had sent hundreds of government soldiers, police and civilian militia to attack his brother’s residence on the pretext that a Muslim rebel was hiding there.  
http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=235&sid=20636576&title=philippine-governor-says-rival-tried-to-kill-him

Philippines: Health workers blast govt for $1B pledge to IMF

  Health personnel from the Philippine Orthopedic Center in Quezon City on Wednesday protest against their delayed benefits by hitting the government on the $1 billion pledge to the IMF and plans to buy new fighter jets for P15 billion. Asti Flores 
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/photo/21522/health-workers-blast-govt-for-1b-pledge-to-imf

Philippines: More than 3 million Philippino child workers engaged in ‘hazardous labor’

  Some three million children in the Philippines, aged 5 to 17, are exposed to dangerous work environments, a survey of the National Statistics Office said. The results of the October 2011 Survey on Children were released Tuesday at the launching of “Batang Malaya,” a nationwide campaign to fight child labor. A news release from the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said the preliminary results of the survey showed that there are 5.492 million working children 5-17 years old as of October 2011. 
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/263274/news/nation/dole-three-million-pinoy-child-workers-engaged-in-hazardous-labor