'Sendong' damage to property nears P1B - Repost

'Sendong' damage to property nears P1B -  Repost
GMA News Online - The Go-To Site for Filipinos Everywhere:

 "As the death toll from tropical storm "Sendong" (Washi) continues to approach the 1,000 mark, authorities on Wednesday estimated the damage to property caused by the storm as nearing P1 billion.

The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said that as of 6 a.m. Wednesday, the number of fatalities had reached 976, with 1,603 injured and 46 still missing.

On the other hand, the NDRRMC said "Sendong" had affected 65,067 families or 348,749 people in 319 villages in 31 towns and eight cities in 13 provinces.

Some 10,039 families or 44,213 people are being served in 60 evacuation centers.

The NDRRMC also said the estimated cost of damage to infrastructure, agriculture and school buildings has so far amounted to P999,946,415.
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'Sendong' world's deadliest storm for 2011 Repost

'Sendong' world's deadliest storm for 2011 | ABS-CBN News | Repost
Latest Philippine Headlines, Breaking News, Video, Analysis, Features:
 "by Jojo Malig, abs-cbnNEWS.com
Posted at 12/20/2011 12:52 AM | Updated as of 12/20/2011 10:10 AM


Deaths reach 957, hundreds still missing

MANILA, Philippines (UPDATE) - Tropical storm "Sendong" (international name Washi) is the world's deadliest storm this year, latest data shows.

The storm, which struck Northern Mindanao, the Visayas, and Palawan over the weekend, has now killed at least 957 people, the country's disaster management chief said Tuesday morning.

National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) Director Benito Ramos also said they have lost count of the number of people who have gone missing following the flashfloods spawned by the storm."

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Kim Jong-il: A reclusive leader in a hermit state - Repost

Kim Jong-il: A reclusive leader in a hermit state - Repost
GMA News Online - The Go-To Site for Filipinos Everywhere: "SEOUL - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, revered at home by a propaganda machine that turned him into a demi-god and vilified in the West as a temperamental tyrant with a nuclear arsenal, has died, North Korean state television reported on Monday.

Kim, who was 69 years old, died on Saturday, it said.

Kim was the unchallenged head of the reclusive state whose economy fell deeper into poverty during his years in power as he vexed the world by developing a nuclear arms program and an arsenal of missiles aimed to hit neighbors Japan and South Korea."

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Send Your Help And Donation to Typhoon Victims Through GMA Kapuso Foundation

Send Your Help And Donation to Typhoon Victims Through GMA Kapuso Foundation





Material donations may be delivered to the GMA Kapuso Foundation office Mondays to Fridays from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Aside from old clothes, food items and medicines, we also accept hygiene products, mats, blankets, medical equipments, toys as well as other things that are helpful to our beneficiaries.



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Google Help to find Missing Person in Storm Sendong

Google Help to find Missing Person

MANILA, Philippines - People looking for friends and relatives who have gone missing because of tropical storm Sendong may find help from Internet tech giant Google. Google has set up a Person Finder tool to locate people in the disaster-affected areas in Northern Mindanao and elsewhere. The tool, which is in English and Filipino, also allows people to share information about people in the flooded communities. To search information regarding a person, one only needs to enter a name in the tool and it will provide information based on records in database. The tool was tracking 200 records of people as of Monday afternoon.

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