Supertyphoon “Yolanda” showed the best and the worst of social media. In the immediate aftermath, at least, there was none of the irreverent humor that Filipinos are known for, we who make fun of anything and anyone, even and especially our own misfortune. The enormity of the tragedy was such that not even the worst kibitzers on social media had the guts to post any wisecrack.
Indigenous communities in the Visayas region that gathered in Bacolod City for the Dayaw indigenous people’s festival said they were still coping from the devastation of Super Typhoon “Yolanda” (Haiyan) and the 7.2-magnitude earthquake last year.
The earthquake that hit Bohol in October 2013 made an impact on the economy and infrastructure of the province, affecting business operations and destroying buildings and roads.
In the evenings it has a certain light that makes it look like a setting for a Somerset Maugham story on the Far East.
TWO years after the Bohol earthquake, and subsequent conservation work on damaged heritage structures by national cultural agencies, the National...
Because of the devastation wrought on various important cultural heritage sites in the Visayas by the Bohol earthquake and Supertyphoon...
The disaster has changed not only the landscape of the small but very beautiful province but also the lives of 1.3 million Boholanos.
