Fil-Am artists gather to help Sendong victims
Eleven Filipino-American bands and 13 performers will gather on Sunday in a concert to benefit victims of tropical storm Sendong in the Philippines.
Eleven Filipino-American bands and 13 performers will gather on Sunday in a concert to benefit victims of tropical storm Sendong in the Philippines.
Donations and pledges, including aid from Filipino communities, continue to pour in from all over the world for the victims of Tropical Storm “Sendong.”
The government of South Korea is turning over $500,000 worth of relief supplies for the victims of Tropical Storm “Sendong” to the Department of Social Welfare and Development on Thursday.
Members of the Filipino-American community in the United States have stepped up relief assistance for families displaced by Tropical Storm Sendong in Cagayan de Oro and Iligan cities.
The government has been getting “by the hour” pledges of financial support and other forms of aid from various countries for the victims of Tropical Storm “Sendong” in northern Mindanao, according to Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario.
British Minister of State Jeremy Brown has sent his condolences to the victims of Tropical Storm “Sendong,” which hit northern Mindanao starting Friday.
A senior UN official on Wednesday called for a doubling of international aid to nearly 700,000 people displaced by conflict and floods in Mindanao, many of whom are living in dire conditions.
At least one thousand people have died in massive floods across Southeast Asia in recent months, according to an AFP tally on Thursday, and millions of homes and livelihoods have been destroyed.
It took only a second for the murky floodwaters swamping parts of Asia to swallow Nguyen Phuoc Hien’s baby. His three-year-old daughter had been playing happily while her aunt studied, but somehow, the girl slipped quietly outside the family home deep in Vietnam’s southern Mekong Delta.
As millions of urbanites living a modern lifestyle fear that torrents of floodwater will rage through Thailand’s capital, some in enclaves of a bygone era watch the rising waters with hardly a worry — they live in old-fashioned houses perched on stilts with boats rather than cars parked outside.
Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd is scheduled to arrive Thursday morning in Manila for a two-day official visit.
Criss-crossed by active faults and located in the “bulls-eye” of storms, the Philippines is the world’s third “riskiest” country and is more vulnerable to rising sea-levels, subsiding land and warming temperatures than Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
