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Amihan (mythology) is a bird in Philippine mythology. According to Tagalog folklore, Amihan is the first creature to inhabit the universe, along with the gods called Bathala and Aman Sinaya. In the legend Amihan is described as a bird that saves the first human beings, Malakas and Maganda, from a bamboo plant.
A food stall was washed away as monsoon floods submerged a street market in the Philippines. Footage shows the wooden stand floating on rubbish-filled waters swamping the road in Quezon City on 17 ...
The 2012 Luzon southwest monsoon floods (informally known in Tagalog as Hagupít ng Habagat, "wrath of the monsoon" and Bagsík ng Habagat, "fierceness of the monsoon", from habagat, the Filipino term for the southwest monsoon), was an eight-day period of torrential rain and thunderstorms in Luzon in the Philippines from August 1 to August 8, 2012.
On August 14, 2016, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council reported that about 70,000 people, or 15,665 families, were affected by the enhanced monsoon rains in the regions of Central Luzon (Region 3), Calabarzon (Region 4-A), Mimaropa (Region 4-B), Western Visayas (Region 6), the Negros Island Region, the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, and the National Capital ...
Taiwan shuttered offices, schools and tourist sites across the island on Wednesday ahead of a powerful typhoon that already worsened seasonal rains in the Philippines, killed at least 13 people ...
MANILA (Reuters) -Philippine authorities moved thousands of residents in the capital, Manila, out of low-lying communities on Saturday as heavy monsoon rains, compounded by a tropical storm ...
Doksuri carried expansive rain bands as it approached the Philippines, exacerbating the existing southwest monsoon and causing widespread rains and floods over most of the country. [22] [98] As early as July 23, rain from the storm triggered floods in Pampanga. [42] Nine out of the Philippines' seventeen regions were hit with heavy rain and ...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The death toll from a massive landslide that hit a gold-mining village in the southern Philippines has risen to 54 with 63 people still missing, authorities said Sunday.