1400 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/JDUN-8BC8YA?OpenDocument&RSS20&RSS20=FSby Rachelle M. Nessia Dumaguete City (19 November) -- The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council is set to visit towns and cities here for an ocular inspection of hazard-prone areas across the province.Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:16:00 +0100reliefWeb-latestUpdates-46ab9d860c517f540b44dd0522f7e5e120101119091600http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/business/11/14/10/rp-cited-microinsurance-opportunitiesMANILA, Philippines - The Philippines, India and Indonesia offer the biggest opportunities for the fledging microinsurance industry, which has a potential market of 3 billion people, industry officials said on Tuesday. Microinsurance offers coverage for people with low incomes, including products....Sun, 14 Nov 2010 04:14:00 +0100abs-cbnnews-cd7121837b731bb4357998865aa3694920101114041400http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/VVOS-8B5QNU?OpenDocument&RSS20&RSS20=FSDisaster relief charity ShelterBox, based in Cornwall, UK, immediately mobilised a ShelterBox Response Team (SRT) and yesterday the first fifty ShelterBoxes were distributed to families on the Mentawais who lost everything when the tsunami hit.Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:08:00 +0100reliefWeb-latestUpdates-46ad7879c37cdcd0d397717a179f1c5320101112220800http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=53531"Community radio stations in Haiti play an indispensable role during catastrophes, and so do women, who can identify the most urgent needs of families during the reconstruction of the country," said a representative of one of these stations in the Caribbean island nation.Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:52:00 +0100ipsnews-e957626348bee9cf44cb620fdb91175220101111185200