Cecil Morella
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Aid pushes through to typhoon Haiyan survivors
Substantial food and medical aid has finally began reaching the desperate survivors of the Philippines super typhoon.
World-famous rice terraces under threat
After putting his seedlings to bed in the world-famous Banaue rice terraces in the northern Philippines, farmer Gabriel Balicdon works as a tourist guide and buys rice from the…
Philippines attempts to sell deadly volcanoes to tourists
Rickety old jeeps barrel through a dry northern Philippines riverbed, setting off a dust storm that coats the visitors bouncing around on the back seat. The landscape around…
The wild, wet world of river trekking
"There is no right or wrong way," the trail master tells his nine fellow bushwalkers as they trace a little-known passage through the Philippines’ Sierra Madre range. "But…
Soldier guards ex-Philippines president, in life and death
Catalino Bactat has spent nearly all his adult life guarding Ferdinand Marcos, from the time when his boss was the most powerful man in the Philippines and now as a mass of dried…