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Displaying 2 of about 2 resultsBANGKOK, 26 June 2014 – “Their houses may fall, their businesses may be lost, but, by God, the men of Guiuan will look good.”
So begins the uplifting story of how Alan Alcantara – the Barber of Guiuan – picks up himself and his small business in the wake of the devastating Typhoon Haiyan (known locally as Yolanda) in the Philippines last November.
The…
Geneva – Parliamentarians from ten Asian countries have issued a call to national governments to allocate at least 1 per cent of the national budget and development funding for reducing disaster risk.
The call came just days before negotiators gathered in Cancun, Mexico, for the sixteenth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Conven…