"Baby boy discovered in trash unloaded from plane in Manila" by Associated Press | September 13, 2010
MANILA — Authorities at Manila’s airport found a newborn in a trash bag that was apparently unloaded from an airplane that was flown yesterday from the Middle East, officials said.
Security officers brought the baby boy, who was covered in blood and wrapped in tissue paper, to an airport clinic.
Doctors and nurses examined him, cleaned him up, wrapped him in cloth, and gave him a bottle of milk, according to airport officials.
“After he was cleaned, he let off a soft cry,’’ said Kate Calvo, a nurse at the airport clinic. “He was healthy, and his vital signs were OK, according to our doctors.’’
Airport doctors in Manila attended to a newborn boy found when a security officer noticed something moving in a garbage bag reportedly unloaded from a Gulf Air plane from Bahrain. (AFP/ Getty Images)
A security officer noticed something moving in a garbage bag that reportedly was unloaded from a Gulf Air plane that had arrived from Bahrain and found the baby inside, an airport statement said....
Social Welfare Secretary Dinky Soliman said she was angered by what happened, adding that police have been ordered to search for the infant’s mother, who could be criminally charged....
Many Filipinos are forced to work as maids and laborers abroad, including the Middle East, to escape crushing poverty and unemployment at home.
And then my agenda-pushing, pro-immigration paper says it is a good thing.
They only care about a GLOBAL SLAVE FORCE, folks!
Otherwise Filipinos -- or anyone else -- would NOT HAVE TO DO THIS!
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"In baby saga, an account of rape emerges" by Associated Press | September 17, 2010
MANILA — A Philippine woman who acknowledged giving birth to a baby on a flight from the Middle East and then leaving him in the trash on the plane said she was raped by her employer, a lawmaker said yesterday.
Still going to prosecute?
The baby was found by a security guard at Manila’s airport Sunday in a trash bag unloaded from a Gulf Air flight from Bahrain. The trash apparently came from the plane’s bathroom....
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"Super typhoon batters Philippines" by Associated Press | October 18, 2010
MANILA — Super Typhoon Megi, the strongest cyclone to hit the northern Philippines in years, lashed the region today with huge waves, strong rains, and ferocious winds that toppled electricity poles, drowned one man, and triggered massive emergency preparations.
Thousands of people sought shelter while authorities warned millions of residents and rice farmers along the typhoon’s path to look out for damage to crops, homes, and power lines. Flood-ravaged areas of China and Vietnam were also bracing for more rains from the powerful storm....
Vietnam’s central coast, where 21 people have died in floods, also prepared for another soaking.
With its ferocious wind and rainfall of 1.97 inches per hour, Megi was the most powerful typhoon to hit the Philippines in four years, government forecasters say. A 2006 howler with 155-m.p.h. winds set off mudslides that buried entire villages, killing about 1,000 people....
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"Filipinos take cover as Megi roars on; Typhoon blamed for 10 deaths" by Bullit Marquez, Associated Press | October 19, 2010
CAUAYAN, Philippines — Super Typhoon Megi dumped heavy rains over the Philippine capital as it departed today after killing 10 people, creating a wasteland of fallen trees in the north and sending thousands scrambling to safety in near-zero visibility.
The strongest cyclone to buffet the country in years slammed into the northern Philippines yesterday and was forecast to regain strength over the South China Sea today as it headed toward China and Vietnam, where recent floods unrelated to the storm already have caused 30 deaths.
Surging currents on Vietnam’s flooded main highway yesterday swept away a bus and 20 of its passengers, including a boy pulled from his mother’s grasp. In China, authorities evacuated 140,000 people from a coastal province ahead of the typhoon, which Chinese officials said could hit the southern coast as early as midnight. Heavy rains have already lashed Hainan.
Megi packed sustained winds of 140 miles per hour and gusts of 162 miles per hour as it made landfall in the northern province of Isabela, felling trees and utility poles and cutting off power, phone, and Internet services. Its ferocious winds slightly weakened while crossing the mountains of the Philippines’ main northern island of Luzon....
In July, a storm killed more than 100 people in Manila and outlying provinces.
See: Philippines Typhoon Photo
Interesting that the web version cut the following:
Retired Army Major General Benito Ramos, who heads the country's disaster preparedness agency, said bracing for the typhoon was like "preparing for war."
Thousands of military reserve officers and volunteers were on standby, along with helicopters. including six Chinooks that were committed by US troops holding war exercises with Filipino soldiers near Manila, Ramos said.
How much is this damn empire costing you, America?
Yeah, it is a good thing we are wasting money militarily dominating the planet so we can do humanitarian relief.
We could do that without the empire, and be better liked!
In July, an angry President Benigno Aquino III fired the head of the weather bureau for failing to predict the typhoon that hit Manila.
Maybe he needs a smoke, because our weathermen are always wrong over here.
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Also see: Phillipines President's First Test
I guess this was his second.
