175570 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 https://reliefweb.int/report/philippines/philippines-humanitarian-snapshot-15-august-2019DENGUE. Philippines Department of Health declared a National Dengue Epidemic on 06 August 2019. The declaration was aimed to identify areas for more intensive response and for local government units to use their Quick Response Fund to address the epidemic. 167,600 CASES. 720 DEATHS. SOUTHWEST MONSOON.Thu, 15 Aug 2019 08:56:00 +0200reliefWeb-5a33bc063ac12fd94d633805cec9113420190815085600https://www.philstar.com/business/science-and-environment/2019/08/15/1943367/dost-promote-business-continuity-principles-msmesMANILA, Philippines The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) wants to promote disaster resilience to micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in all regions through adoption of business continuity principles in their enterprises. The DOST had started off their Regional Science and....Wed, 14 Aug 2019 18:43:00 +0200philstar-c53be81a7b30bd99301152f5d157ef0e20190814184300https://reliefweb.int/report/philippines/ocd-pilots-community-based-quake-drill-tagum-cityBy Jeanevive Abangan. TAGUM CITY, Davao del Norte (PIA) -- This city became the pilot area for the community-based national simultaneous earthquake drill (NSED) in Davao Region. The Office of the Civil Defense in Davao Region (OCD-11) led member agencies of the Regional Disaster Risk Reduction....Wed, 14 Aug 2019 05:14:00 +0200reliefWeb-a15d50fdae931b11b9aa0bd94684e56220190814051400https://pakobserver.net/index.php/2019/08/05/31-perish-62-rescued-after-boats-capsize-in-philippines/Manila. Rescuers recovered more bodies in rough seas where three ferry boats capsized after being buffeted by fierce winds and waves off two central Philippine provinces, bringing the death toll to 31 with three missing, the coast guard said Sunday. Coast guard spokesman Armand Balilo said the dead....Tue, 13 Aug 2019 06:40:00 +0200pakobserver-13126160e9434c6ed10a072394ffc31e20190813064000