Investigators were able on Friday to recover the helicopter’s black box, which captures flight data and voices in the cockpit, National Transportation Safety Board member Todd Inman said at an afternoon briefing. The information from the box, along with the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from the CRJ700 airplane, could help authorities piece […]
Manila has been seeking to boost defence ties in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond in the face of China’s growing confidence in asserting its claims over the hotspot South China Sea. A first round of talks was held in Manila on Thursday between the Philippines and New Zealand’s defence departments, they said in a joint […]
Around 255,000 people have fled their homes ahead of Super Typhoon Man-yi, which is expected to make landfall later Saturday or early Sunday, becoming the sixth major storm to pummel the archipelago nation in the past month. With wind gusts of up to 230 kilometers per hour (about 140 miles per hour), Man-yi was on […]
Torrential rains driven by the storm have turned streets into rivers, submerged entire villages, and buried some vehicles up to their door handles in volcanic sediment knocked loose by the downpour. At least 32,000 people had fled their homes in the northern Philippines, police said, as the storm edged closer to the Southeast Asian country’s […]
The eastern city of Naga was among the hardest hit as Tropical Storm Yagi sliced off its coast overnight Sunday, leaving two people dead including the baby girl who drowned as floodwaters rose, rescuers said. “The floods were above head height in some areas,” Joshua Tuazon of the city’s public safety office told AFP, adding […]
