124220 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.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1672686/54-dead-thousands-forced-flee-homes-after-storm-batters-philippinesA resident of Samar province looks out from his home sitting in floodwaters brought on by heavy rains. Photo: Reuters. Tropical storm Jiangmi exited the Philippines Thursday, leaving at least 54 dead and 13 missing from floods and landslides as officials admitted that more extensive warnings could have saved more lives.Thu, 01 Jan 2015 10:26:00 +0100scmp-a9388afa60d80140bbd2b3fe9e4678a420150101102600http://www.tradearabia.com/news/PIC_272199.html, 5 days ago A man climbs to put flowers on a wave-shaped tsunami monument for victims of the 2004 tsunami in Ban Nam Khem, a southern fishing village destroyed by the wave December 26. Survivors of Asia's 2004 tsunami and relatives of its 226,000 victims gather along shorelines of the Indian Ocean....Thu, 01 Jan 2015 10:11:00 +0100tradearabia-39713836c36b894291bc69906d1c910620150101101100http://news.iafrica.com/worldnews/976609.htmlThis file photo shows a boy riding on a makeshift raft as he makes his way near his flooded home in southern Philippines, on December 4, 2012. The death toll from a tropical storm that hit the central Philippines on Christmas Day has risen to 20, with more than 20,000 others left homeless, according to the government.Thu, 01 Jan 2015 10:07:00 +0100iafrica-12e653ede1735b625bdaba706f19861520150101100700http://thepeninsulaqatar.com/news/asia/314231/tropical-storm-leaves-54-dead-as-it-exits-philippinesMANILA---Tropical storm Jiangmi exited the Philippines Thursday, leaving at least 54 dead and 13 missing from floods and landslides as officials admitted that more extensive warnings could have saved more lives. The storm's death toll was nearly triple that of the last major storm -- Super Typhoon....Thu, 01 Jan 2015 10:05:00 +0100thepeninsulaqatar-0bb079469373e05964fa7c165a1c03a720150101100500