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MANILA, Philippines – Landslides triggered by rains from Typhoons “Winnie” and “Yoyong” killed more than 300 people in Dingalan, Aurora in November and December 2005. Nearly 1,000 houses were destroyed.

On Dec. 30, 2005, 70 families were marooned in Barangay Esperanza in Casiguran as floodwaters reached 10 feet high. All 24 villages in the town were flooded.

Mayor Reynaldo Bitong said the floods, the worst in Casiguran after Typhoon “Harurot’s” rains in July 2003, came as the Amro, Minanga, Dibet, Bianoan and Calabgan rivers overflowed.

On July 31, 2006, the Provincial Disaster Coordinating Council said 57 villages in the towns of Baler, Casiguran, Dilasag, Dinalungan, Dipaculao, Maria Aurora and San Luis were at high risk to floods and landslides on the heels of Typhoon “Henry.”

• Bus firm keeps getting threats from groups
• Biking priest carried letter castigating Arroyo
• Are Hanjin condos sitting on toxic site?
• Protests growing over Atienza OK of logging
• Poachers’ vessels yield cyanide, formalin bottles
• Newsbriefs
• Peace advocates urge Malaysia to stay
• In the know
• Partylist solon decries work conditions at Hanjin shipyard

• Boracay land conflict boils over
• 5 dead in new landslide in Diwalwal
• Quezon town declares state of calamity
• Teenage girl dies fighting off molester
• Pangasinan bishop gives gov failing grad
• DSWD starts databank for the poor
• Baguio-Cotabato peace caravan kicks off
• Erap’s threat to run in 2010 downplayed
• Newsbriefs