Samar Rep. Sarmiento Urges Decentralizing Relief Efforts for Yolanda Victims A Visayan lawmaker on Tuesday proposed the decentralization of relief efforts away from Manila and nearer to the typhoon-hit provinces of Leyte and Samar so aid will be delivered faster. “Huwag na nating ipadala sa Maynila (ang relief goods). Magkaroon...
Nov. 14, 2013 - New America Media
Record Typhoon Hits Central Philippines Typhoon Haiyan slammed into the Visayan Islands in the central Philippines on Nov. 8 with sustained winds in excess of 148 miles per hour and storm surges estimated between 15 ft and 19 ft.
Nov. 13, 2013 - Engineering News-Record
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in Philippine Star That exposure helped me because it made many people in the Visayas and Mindanao realize that I spoke Cebuano and that culminated in my landslides in 1995, 1998 and in 2004 in the Visayan-speaking provinces in the Visayas and Mindanao,Mrs....