Reconstruction to take years in devastated Philippine province
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Shops are reopening and telephone lines are back up, but reconstruction in the impoverished eastern Philippines province of Albay after deadly mudflows could take years, officials say.
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REAL, PHILIPPINES - Rescue and recovery operations are underway in the Philippines after a series of devastating storms left more than 1,000 people dead or missing.
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The Philippines begins to clean up after a powerful typhoon, days after a storm killed more than 400 people.
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REAL, Philippines, Dec. 3 -- Helicopters delivered food to survivors and picked up the sick and injured on Friday as flash floods began to recede in the northern Philippines.
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Hundreds of army and civilian engineers  have begun massive construction work in the northern  Philippines to rebuild flood-hit areas that have been cut off  from the rest of the country for weeks.
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With the death toll mounting to 1,000 after a deadly storm Typhoon Nanmadol that hit the nation three days before, the nature&#39;s curse is still haunting Philippines when an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.2 rocked the northern Philippines on
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Food and supplies arrive in the Philippines, hit hard by back-to-back storms. More than 600 are dead, and nearly 400 are missing. BY OLIVER TEVES.
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MANILA: About 20 Filipinos were found alive in the rubble of a collapsed building yesterday, 10 days after a fierce storm and landslides devastated several eastern and northern provinces, a radio station reported.
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BANGKOK - Thailand will need months to repair damage to its lucrative tourism industry wrought by the deadly tsunami that swept across the Indian Ocean, a senior tourism official said on Tuesday.
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From bricks to wood and plastic sheets, anything goes in the reconstruction of earthquake-hit Balakot, despite official plans to move the entire city 30 kilometres (19 miles) to the south.
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Indonesia's Aceh needs three more years to rebuild itself after the December 2004 tsunami, the head of the province's reconstruction agency said.
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New Orleans' latest plan to recover  from Hurricane Katrina calls for a 10-year rebuilding program  costing $14 billion that will leave some neighborhoods still  sparsely populated.
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Countries hit by the Asian tsunami disaster could take up to 10 years to recover, the UN's Kofi Annan warns.
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At least four survivors were pulled Thursday from a building that collapsed in mudslides 10 days ago, while the death toll from devastating storms in the Philippines' northeast rose to at least 842, with more than 750 people missing.
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Rescuers have struggled to reach three Philippine towns devastated by landslides and floods that killed at least 327 people as a powerful typhoon stayed on course to hit the same area within 48 hours.
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About 20 Filipinos were found alive in  the rubble of a collapsed building on Thursday, 10 days after a  fierce storm and landslides devastated several eastern and  northern provinces, a radio station reported.
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RESCUERS in the Philippines yesterday pulled at least four survivors from a building that collapsed in mudslides 10 days ago. The miraculous tale of survival came as officials