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Philippines: Climate walkers' post-Yolanda message: make big polluters liable

2014-11-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

InterAksyon: They made it as scheduled, Saturday morning, to Ground Zero of Yolanda's most devastating landfall, after walking over a month from Manila's Kilometer Zero at Rizal Park. As the Philippines marked the first anniversary of the super typhoon historic landfall in Tacloban City, over 500 Filipinos joined a solidarity event demanding climate justice, vowing to hold big polluters accountable for climate change impacts. Tacloban marks the end of a 1,000 kilometer, 40-day walk for climate justice organized...

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Philippines remembers thousands killed a year after typhoon Haiyan

2014-11-08 07:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Candles lit up the streets of the central Philippine city worst-hit by the strongest storm to make landfall as thousands remembered more than 6,300 people who died a year ago when typhoon Haiyan smashed into the country. Before dawn on Saturday, more than 5,000 people holding white balloons and candles mournfully walked around the regional capital Tacloban City, passing through areas flattened by Haiyan's 250 kph (155 mph) winds and seven-metre high storm surge. Church bells peeled and sirens...

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Viber, Whatsapp roll in Philippines

2014-11-05 15:35:08| Telecom - Topix.net

Smartphone messaging apps like WhatsApp and Viber sent quarter profits for Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co to their biggest drop this year as users worldwide continue to hang up on paid mobile-phone calls and text messages. Net income in the third quarter ended September fell 14% to 7.93 billion pesos compared to a year earlier, PLDT President Napoleon Nazareno said in a briefing.

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