In the wake of one of the most powerful storms ever to hit Southeast Asia, Typhoon Haiyan, the Philippines is counting its dead and assessing the massive damage to infrastructure from the storm, ...

International relief organizations are scrambling to get to devastated areas in the central Philippines to join relief and recovery efforts after Friday’s typhoon left 10,000 dead, according to news ...

Philippine officials have ordered tens of thousands of people to evacuate to safer areas and prohibited fishermen from venturing out to sea in an eastern region as a typhoon approached from the ...

As the Philippines grapples with scores of dead bodies and a lack of medical supplies in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, Filipinos are asking why the country wasn’t more adequately prepared for the ...

Vietnam managed to evacuate over 800,000 people well before the storm hit; the total number of people who evacuated in the Philippines prior to the storm remains unknown, but a sizable percentage of ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 22 November 2013 Two weeks after ...

CEBU, Philippines, November 19 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency said on Tuesday that thousands of typhoon survivors in the Philippines are believed to have left their home areas in places like Tacloban ...

Mangroves in the Philippine city of Tacloban, the area hit hardest by one of the most powerful typhoons ever recorded, have recovered and even expanded beyond their pre-disaster extent, thanks largely ...

After a natural disaster, it seems sports provide the first glimpses of happiness after unthinkable tragedy: That first high school football game after the devastating tornado in Missouri; the first ...

TACLOBAN CITY Philippines (Reuters) - Candles lit up the streets of the central Philippine city worst-hit by the strongest storm to make landfall as thousands remembered more than 6,300 people who ...