All the headlines from our Philippines Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 16 2013 // The Philippines froze prices for basic goods to prevent gouging in an area cut off by the country’s biggest earthquake in a year, as the death toll from the temblor rose to 107.Rescue crews were searching for...
Oct 15 2013 // According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide Typhoon Nari, aka Santi, made landfall in the Philippines, “as of 18:50 October 11, 2013 UTC (2:50 October 12, 2013 PHT; 14:50 October 11, 2013 EDT), just south of...
Sep 20 2013 // AIR Worldwide’s latest report on Typhoon Usagi describes a “Category 3 storm with maximum sustained winds of 204 km/h [127.5 mph].” It is “expected to strengthen over the coming days and could...
Sep 6 2013 // August saw billion-dollar flood losses in China, Russia, Philippines and Pakistan, bringing an initial combined estimate of $10 billion in economic losses, Aon Benfield said in a report on natural disaster perils.According...
Aug 13 2013 // Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide reports that “Typhoon Utor slammed into the northern Philippine island of Luzon on Monday, August 12, at around 3:00 pm local time (7:00 UTC) with 10-minute sustained winds of...
Mar 28 2013 // A.M. Best Europe – Rating Services Limited has assigned a financial strength rating of ‘B++’ (Good) and an issuer credit rating of “bbb” to Bahrain’s Takaful International Company BSC (TIC),...
Jan 9 2013 // In its latest Global Catastrophe Recap report Impact Forecasting, the catastrophe model development center of excellence at Aon Benfield, focuses on Super Typhoon Bopha, which killed 1,901 people and injured 2,666 others...
Dec 10 2012 // A typhoon that had left the Philippines after killing nearly 600 people and leaving hundreds missing in the south has made a U-turn and is now threatening the country’s northwest, officials said Saturday.The weather...
Dec 5 2012 // AIR Worldwide’s analysis of Typhoon Botha’s [also named ‘Pablo,’ locally] impact on the Philippines indicates that as “insurance penetration in this area is around 10 percent to 20 percent;...
Dec 5 2012 // The death toll from the Philippines’ strongest typhoon this year rose on Wednesday to around 230, with hundreds missing in landslides and floodwaters, as the storm continued its destructive path across the island...
Dec 4 2012 // Thousands of villagers fled from their homes Monday as a strong typhoon roared closer to the southern Philippines, prompting authorities to suspend sea travel in high-risk areas and halt gold-mining in a mountain town...
Aug 16 2012 // A second tropical storm in as many weeks battered the northern Philippines on Wednesday, killing at least two people, as forecasters warned that the still-reeling capital could see more flooding.Meanwhile, President...
Aug 14 2012 // A new storm is dumping more rain in the flood-battered northern Philippines a week after nearly 100 people died in a monsoon deluge that submerged half of the sprawling capital city. Rescuers evacuated flood-prone areas in...
Aug 8 2012 // Emergency workers and troops rushed food, water and clothes to nearly 850,000 people displaced and marooned from deadly floods spawned by 11 straight days of southwest monsoon rains that soaked the Philippine capital and...
Aug 3 2012 // According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, Typhoon Saola, the ninth typhoon of the Northwest Pacific storm season, made its first landfall early Thursday morning local time in Hualien, Taiwan.AIR noted that the...
Feb 9 2012 // Philippine officials conceded Wednesday that there was little hope of finding any survivors among 71 people still buried in landslides set off by a powerful earthquake, as jittery residents stayed away from their homes...
Feb 7 2012 // Rescuers dug with picks and shovels trying to reach dozens of people trapped under houses collapsed by a strong earthquake Monday that shook a central Philippine island and set off landslides.At least 13 people were killed...
Dec 19 2011 // As a storm that killed more than 530 in the southern Philippines raged outside the store where she works, Amor Limbago worriedly called home to check on her parents, but their cell phones just kept ringing and later went...
Sep 29 2011 // Typhoon Nesat hit Hainan Island in south China on Thursday after it swept past Hong Kong, closing financial markets, schools and most businesses in one of Asia’s largest financial centers.China recalled ships and...
Sep 28 2011 // According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, “Typhoon Nesat (known locally as ‘Pedring’) made landfall in the eastern Isabela and Aurora provinces on the Pacific coast of the Philippines at 18:21...