The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) on Wednesday announced that its administrator, Undersecretary Ariel Nepomuceno, and ...

BEIJING – Hours before Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines, authorities had evacuated 800,000 people and sent them to sturdy evacuation centers -- churches, schools and public buildings.

Philippine Red Cross officers rescued stranded residents from flooded homes in the Philippines. Some 143 volunteers and staff were dispatched to evacuate locals from the flood-stricken city of Puerto ...

MANILA--Philippine troops found the last five dead from the crash of a transport aircraft in the south, raising the death toll to 50 in the military’s worst air disaster, officials said Monday.

The Disaster Risk Reduction Bill, which was actively pushed by the Philippine Consortium on Good Local Governance (PCGLG), the Disaster Risk Reduction Network among others, has been signed into law by ...