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Super typhoon cuts power, unleashes landslides in northern Philippines
2013-09-21 09:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The year's most powerful typhoon slammed into the Philippines' northernmost islands on Saturday, cutting communication and power lines, triggering landslides and inundating rice fields, officials said. Packing winds of 185 kph (114 mph) near the center and gusts of up to 220 kph, Typhoon Usagi weakened after hitting the Batanes island group, and is moving slowly west-northwest at 19 kph towards southern China, the weather bureau said. Usagi, which has been labeled a super typhoon, made landfall...
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Philippines evacuates coastal villages as super typhoon approaches en route for China
2013-09-20 07:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Philippines evacuated northern coastal villages, suspended ferry services and called in fishing boats on Friday as an approaching category-five storm, already labelled a super typhoon, gained strength on a path set for southern China. With center winds of 205 kph (127 mph) and gusts of up to 240 kph, Typhoon Usagi, the strongest storm to hit the Western Pacific this year, was moving northwest at 19 kph between the Philippines and Taiwan and headed for Hong Kong and south China. China's...
VIDEO: Philippines clashes worry investors
2013-09-17 04:33:31| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Fighting between Philippine government forces and Muslim insurgents in the south of the country are making investors sceptical about doing business there.
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MTD Philippines to build ten mini-hydropower plants in Isabela
2013-09-09 01:00:00| Power Technology
MTD Philippines, a unit of the Alloy MTD Group, will build ten run-of-river mini-hydropower plants totaling 80 MW in Isabela with an investment of approximately $280m (PHP12bn).
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PHILIPPINES: First Old Navy franchise stores planned
2013-09-04 11:36:11| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
US specialty clothing retailer Gap Inc is to take its Old Navy chain to the Philippines next year, building on plans to begin franchising the stores internationally.
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