Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
WNN Breaking (WNN/EN) Manila, PHILIPPINES, ASIA PACIFIC: In the 1980s, the U.S. Subic Bay Naval Base in the Philippines was the largest U.S. military base outside of the U.S. with an estimated 500 million USD generated by the brothels surrounding it. Local traffickers and brothel owners engaged in the business of buying and selling women [...]
WNN Breaking (WNN/AN) Bangkok, THAILAND: Five weeks after Typhoon Bopha killed more than 1,000 people and affected 6 million in the southern Philippines, hundreds of thousands of survivors are in critical need of better shelter, the Red Cross has said. The most intense storm to hit the disaster-prone Southeast Asian nation last year struck Mindanao [...]
WNN Breaking (WNN/IRIN) Manila, PHILIPPINES, ASIA: The Philippine government has launched a mobile phone application which can provide real-time information on rainfall and flooding to the general public. The Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards (NOAH), which aims to provide information about bad weather and thus mitigate disasters such as floods, typhoons and landslides, launched its [...]
WNN Breaking (WNN/PRC) Manila, PHILIPPINES: Red Cross societies in the Philippines and China are providing emergency relief to flood affected communities after triple typhoons swept across the region, triggering torrential rain, floods and landslides. In the Philippines, the rains have swamped a large portion of Metro Manila, and killed more than 50 people throughout the [...]
WNN Breaking (WNN) UNITED NATIONS: Thousands of pregnant and lactating women in areas affected by a storm that hit the Philippines two weeks ago are getting help from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The government of the Philippines estimates that 92,000 families or 640,000 people have been affected by the storm which destroyed buildings [...]
