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Published  September 8, 2017 4:00pm  The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council advised the public Friday not to panic but always remain alert if they will observe sea level change due to the magnitude-8 earthquake that hit off the coast of Chiapas, Mexico. “So far batay sa ating pakikipag-ugnayan  sa PHIVOLCS, wala namang kailangang ikabahala ang mga kababayan. Pero maganda pa rin na maging alerto at patuloy na magmatyag sa lokalidad lalo na sa coastal areas,” NDRRMC spokesperson Romina Marasigan told reporters. She added fishermen who will notice sea swelling should also not panic. “Ang mahalaga kung makapansin sila ng sea level change, o swollen ang tubig na ito, huwag silang mag-panic, parte lang ito ng maaaring pagtaas dail sa malakas na pagyanig,” she said.  Marasigan said there was no advise for evacuation but they have already alerted their local offices. “Nagbigay na tayo ng advisory kasama ang earthquake info...

Published  September 8, 2017 3:39pm  By  RIE TAKUMI , GMA News No Filipinos were hurt in the magnitude 8 earthquake that hit the southern coast of Mexico on Friday, according to initial reports received by the Philippine Embassy there. In an email to GMA News Online, Vice Consul Mikhal de Dios said none of the approximately 700 Filipinos living in Mexico were among the four initially reported killed in the strongest earthquake to hit the country since 1985. "This is still an evolving situation, and we are monitoring the damage and casualty reports. Four deaths have been recorded so far, but to our knowledge, there are no Filipino casualties at this time," De Dios said. He added that there were "not that many Filipinos" living in the southern part of Mexico, the area where the epicenter of the quake was recorded, as "the largest concentrations are in the urban centers of Mexico City, Guadalajara, and along the northern border with the...

A rare and powerful 8.4-magnitude earthquake struck southern Mexico late Thursday, killing at least two people as seismologists warned of a tsunami of more than three meters (10 feet). The quake hit offshore in the Pacific about 120 kilometers (75 miles) southwest of the town of Tres Picos in far southern Chiapas state, the US Geological Survey said, putting the magnitude at 8.1. Mexico's seismologic service, however, gave a magnitude of 8.4, which if confirmed would be the most powerful ever recorded in this quake-prone country. Two people were crushed to death in Chiapas when buildings collapsed on them, said local officials and Mexican Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong. The quake shook a large swath of the country and was felt as far north as Mexico City -- 1,000 km (600 miles) From the quake epicenter -- where people ran out of their homes in their pajamas as buildings trembled and swayed. A tsunami warning and the prospect of aftershocks kept the na...

Fr. Shay Cullen 6 September 2017 Ali is a seven-year old boy. He lies with his head bandaged, a needle stuck in his arm and he is breathing with great difficulty. He is close to death lying in a makeshift shelter that is an emergency field clinic in Yemen where the last of the dextrose is running out. Flies buzz around his mouth, which has hardly seen food in weeks. He is skeletal from severe malnutrition and is just one of many more children lying around on mats on the ground. They too will die from malnutrition and cholera-induced diarrhea. There is no clean water and as many as 2,000 people have died from cholera and more than half a million people are infected in the past three months alone. The videos of the horrific conditions are too painful to watch in full. The Saudis have blocked the supply of humanitarian aid to Yemen since 2015 to starve the population into submission. It has created the worst humanitarian tragedy in the world where as many as three million peo...

Gillan Ropero, ABS-CBN News Posted at  Sep 07 2017 06:52 PM  | Updated as of  Sep 07 2017 09:02 PM The Demilitarized Zone.  Thea Alberto-Masakayan, ABS-CBN News MANILA — The Philippine Embassy in South Korea has warned Filipinos to stay alert and follow a newly issued contingency plan amid rising tensions in the Korean Peninsula. The Embassy released the contingency plan on its Facebook page Thursday, days after reclusive North Korea hailed as "a perfect success" its  test  of a supposed hydrogen bomb. Filipinos were instructed to prepare a survival kit and contact their area coordinator if the Embassy raises its second alert level, under which Philippine citizens are told to avoid places of potential conflict. A survival kit must contain water, food, personal effects and a hygiene kit, important documents and money, medication, a first aid kit, maps, a flashlight, a multi-purpose knife, and matches, among others. In the event of milit...

Published  September 7, 2017 4:24pm  By  TRISHA MACAS , GMA News Malacañang has assured Filipinos who will be affected by US President Donald Trump’s termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that they will receive assistance from the government. At a briefing, presidential spokesperson Ernesto Abella said the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), through the government’s embassy and consular officials and staff, is closely coordinating with the members of the Filipino community in the United States following termination of the program. “We will provide assistance, through the use of the Assistance to Nationals Fund and the Legal Assistance Fund, to Filipinos who may end up getting deported as a result of Washington's decision,” he said. Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said an estimated 10,000 Filipinos would be affected by the termination of the immigration program put in place in 2012 by then-US President Barack...

Published  September 7, 2017 2:51pm  By CRISTINA DC PASTOR, The FilAm “Rest assured that whatever happens to me, I am prepared.” Define American founder and undocumented immigrant journalist Jose Antonio Vargas wrote this on his Facebook wall, a day after the Trump administration announced it was ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). DACA is a program put in place by former President Obama to protect from deportation immigrants brought into the country illegally as children. For five years, the executive order allowed up to 800,000 young immigrants to remain in the US legally for school and for work. Vargas came to the US at age 12. He went to school in California and worked as a journalist for newspapers, eventually winning a Pulitzer Prize for the Washington Post. When he revealed in a New York Times essay that he is out of status, he became an advocate for immigration rights. He founded Define American, an organization that is promoting ...