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☆ Philippines says Japan, S.Korea, India offer to fund railway projects
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

MANILA, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Japan, South Korea and India have offered to finance three Philippine railway projects worth nearly $5 billion, the country's transport chief said on Monday, after Manila dropped China as a funding source last year. Transportation Secretary Jaime Bautista said the Philippine government could tap the three countries for possible official development assistance (ODA). He said the government may also fund a portion of the rail projects or seek private sector investments. The rail projects are the Subic-Clark Railway Project, the Philippine National Railways South Long-Haul Project and the Davao-Digos segment of the Mindanao Railway Project, collectively worth $4.95 billion. Construction of the Philippines' first subway train, funded by loans from Japan, is underway in the capital region.

Persons: Jaime Bautista, Bautista, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, Rodrigo Duterte, Duterte, Marcos, Mikhail Flores, Karen Lema, Raju Gopalakrishnan Organizations: Transportation, Clark Railway, Philippine National Railways, Mindanao Railway Project, Thomson Locations: MANILA, Japan, South Korea, India, Philippine, Manila, China, Subic, Davao, Mindanao, Beijing, Philippines, Asia

☆ Philippines reveals locations of 4 new strategic sites for U.S. military pact
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-03 | by ( Karen Lema | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The locations are significant, with Isabela and Cagayan facing north towards Taiwan, while Palawan is near the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, where China has built artificial islands equipped with runways and missile systems. Defence chief Carlito Galvez called the sites "very strategic" and stressed the Philippines had a responsibility to the international community in the South China Sea. "Their locations are in areas where they are needed," said Jay Batongbacal, a South China Sea expert at the University of the Philippines. "It also provides us with coverage not only on the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) but also on the Pacific side," he added. The United States has committed more than $80 million worth of infrastructure at the five existing sites - the Antonio Bautista Air Base in Palawan, Basa Air Base in Pampanga, Fort Magsaysay in Nueva Ecija, Benito Ebuen Air Base in Cebu and Lumbia Air Base in Mindanao.

☆ Fire on passenger ferry in Philippines kills 10 - coast guard
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/3] Philippine Coast Guard respond to the fire incident onboard M/V LADY MARY JOY 3 at the waters off Baluk-Baluk Island, Hadji Muhtamad, Basilan, Philippines, March 29, 2023. Philippine Coast Guard/Handout via REUTERSMANILA, March 30 (Reuters) - Ten people have died and 230 have been rescued after a passenger ferry caught fire on Wednesday evening in the seas off the southern Philippine province of Basilan, a coast guard official said. Nine people were injured in the fire that started in air-conditioned cabins, Commodore Rejard Marfe, coast guard chief in southern Mindanao, told the DZMM radio station. Photographs shared by the Coast Guard showed the MV Lady Mary Joy 3 ship being sprayed with water, while rescued passengers were brought to the shore. The Coast Guard said it will assist in an investigation and safety assessment, as well check for any signs of an oil spill.

☆ Magnitude 6 earthquake hits Mindanao, Philippines – EMSC
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

MANILA, Feb 1 (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck Mindanao in the Philippines on Wednesday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. The quake struck at a depth of 2 kilometres (1.24 miles), the EMSC said. It was felt in Davao City, hometown of former President Rodrigo Duterte, the region's civil disaster agency said on Facebook. The earthquake was felt more strongly in the nearby province of Davao de Oro. Reporting by Kanjyik Ghosh in Bengaluru; additional reporting by Neil Jerome Morales in Manila; Editing by Kanupriya KapoorOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Austin's Manila visit to bring deal on expanded base access - Philippines official
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-01 | by ( David Brunnstrom | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

WASHINGTON/MANILA, Feb 1 (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's visit to the Philippines this week is expected to bring an announcement of expanded U.S. access to military bases in the country, a senior Philippines official said on Wednesday. "There's a push for another four or five of these EDCA sites," the a senior Philippines official said. The Philippines official said increased U.S. access needed to benefit both countries. "The deal with Russia was very attractive because for a certain budget we were able to get something like 16 of these heavy-lift helicopters," the official said. He said the U.S. and Philippine marines were pursuing similar capabilities with ground-based rockets, with Manila's particular interest being to protect its South China Sea claims.

☆ Floods devastate Philippines as president declares 'state of calamity'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-18 | by ( Emma Newburger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The Philippines has grappled with heavy rain, flooding and landslides since the beginning of January, prompting evacuations and spurring president Ferdinand Marcos Jr to declare an official "state of calamity" in the Southern Misamis Occidental province. The downpours are happening even though the Philippines is normally in its cool, dry season from December to February. Misamis Occidental, the Northern Mindanao region and the Eastern Visayas in the central Philippines are among the regions affected. The Philippines is hit with an average of 20 typhoons each year and roughly six to nine storms that make landfall annually. The country also experiences frequent landslides and floods that are partly a result of the increasing intensity of tropical cyclones.

☆ Rain and floods in Philippines leave 32 dead and others missing
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-30 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

MANILA, Philippines — Heavy rains and floods that devastated parts of the Philippines over the Christmas weekend have left at least 32 dead and 24 missing, the national disaster response agency said Thursday. More than 56,000 people were still in emergency shelters after bad weather disrupted Christmas celebrations in the eastern, central and southern Philippines. Some residents in the province were seen hanging on to floaters as coast guard rescuers pulled them across chest-deep floods using a rope. An elderly woman is carried by coast guard personnel wading through floodwaters in Plaridel, Philippines, on Monday. It forecast light to heavy rains in the next 24 hours for some of the same areas affected by the floods.

☆ Philippines floods, landslides kill 44 after Christmas Day rains
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-30 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

MANILA, Dec 30 (Reuters) - The death toll from flooding and landslides caused by Christmas Day rains in the southern Philippines rose to 44, with 28 others still unaccounted for, the national disaster agency said on Friday. Damage to infrastructure and crops has been estimated at 1.36 billion pesos ($24.4 million), it said in a bulletin. Heavy rains submerged villages, towns and highways in the Visayas and Mindanao regions on Christmas Day, forcing more than 50,000 people to flee their homes. The floods had subsided but intermittent rains continued, the agency said. So we have to keep watching the other areas also," a presidential palace statement quoted him as saying.

☆ Magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes Mindanao, Philippines -EMSC
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

Dec 9 (Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck the Mindanao region of the Philippines early Saturday morning, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. The quake's epicentre was at a depth of 60 km (37.28 miles), the EMSC said. Reporting by Gokul Pisharody in Bengaluru; Editing by Leslie AdlerOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Manila braces for Tropical Storm Nalgae that has hit the Philippines, killing dozens and causing devastation
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( Hannah Williams | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

45 people are reported dead after storm Nalgae hit the Philippines. The tropical storm is expected to hit the capital of Manila on Saturday, a BBC report says. A man walks along a flooded street in Manila on October 29, 2022, following heavy rain brought by Tropical Storm Nalgae. A resident walks past a destroyed house in the landslide-hit village of Kusiong in Datu Odin Sinsuat in the southern Philippines' Maguindanao province on October 29, 2022. Residents with their belongings arrive at a school that serves as an evacuation centre in Marikina on October 29, 2022, following widespread flooding from heavy rain brought by Tropical Storm Nalgae.

☆ Death toll from floods, landslides in Philippines' south rises to 31 - govt official
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/4] Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) rescuers evacuate residents from their flooded homes due to a tropical storm, locally named Paeng, in Maguindanao province, Philippines, October 28, 2022. Philippine Coast Guard/Handout via REUTERSMANILA, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Flooding and multiple landslides in a southern Philippines province killed at least 31 people, a senior government official said on Friday, as rescuers searched for missing residents. A heavy downpour caused by an approaching tropical storm caused floods and landslides that affected several municipalities in Maguindanao province, Naguib Sinarimbo, interior minister of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Mindanao, said via phone. Sinarimbo said rescue operations are ongoing for people who are missing, but he could not say how many. Reporting by Karen Lema; Editing by Kanupriya KapoorOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Magnitude 5.5 earthquake hits Mindanao island, Philippines - EMSC
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

Oct 19 (Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 struck Mindanao island in the Philippines on Wednesday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. The quake was at a depth of 26 km (16 miles), EMSC said. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Shubhendu Deshmukh in Bengaluru; Editing by Andrew HeavensOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Un avion militar cu 92 de persoane la bord s-a prăbuşit în Filipine. Cel puțin 17 morți
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-04 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Potrivit şefului armatei, generalul Cirilito Sobejana, cel puţin 40 de persoane au fost salvate, iar operațiunea de căutare a victimelor continuă, scrie digi24. Aparatul, un C-130, s-a prăbuşit în timpul manevrelor de aterizare pe insula Jolo, în provincia Sulu, situată la circa 1.000 km sud de Manila. Majoritatea pasagerilor abia încheiaseră pregătirea militară de bază şi erau desfăşuraţi la Mindanao (sud), notează Agerpres. Oficialul filipinez a adăugat că speră ca şi alte persoane să mai poată fi salvate. Armata este foarte prezentă în sudul Filipinelor, din cauza implantării organizaţiei islamiste Abu Sayyaf, considerată drept grupare teroristă de către Washington.

Persons: Cirilito, Delfin, Reuters, Abu Sayyaf Organizations: Agerpres, Armata Locations: Filipinelor, Jolo, Sulu, Manila, Agenţia, Mindanao, Washington

☆ Un avion militar cu 92 de persoane la bord s-a prăbuşit în Filipine; Cel puțin 17 morți
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-04 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

Sursa foto: Twitter/ Philippine Emergency Alerts - PEAUn avion militar cu 92 de persoane la bord s-a prăbuşit în Filipine; Cel puțin 17 morți17 oameni au murit în urma prăbușirii avionului militar, în sudul Filipinelor. Potrivit şefului armatei, generalul Cirilito Sobejana, cel puţin 40 de persoane au fost salvate, iar operațiunea de căutare a victimelor continuă. Un avion militar cu 92 de persoane la bord s-a prăbuşit şi a fost cuprins de flăcări în sudul Filipinelor, iar şeful armatei, generalul Cirilito Sobejana, a declarat că cel puţin 40 de persoane au fost salvate. "Echipele de salvare sunt la faţa locului, ne rugăm să putem salva şi alte vieţi", a spus generalul citat. Armata este foarte prezentă în sudul Filipinelor, din cauza implantării organizaţiei islamiste Abu Sayyaf, considerată drept grupare teroristă de către Washington.

Persons: Cirilito, Delfin, Reuters, Abu Sayyaf Organizations: Armata Locations: Filipine, Filipinelor, Jolo, Sulu, Manila, Agenţia, Mindanao, Washington

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