6400 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://www.manilatimes.net/2020/06/23/business/real-estate-and-property/a-world-redrawn-japan-architect-ban-urges-virus-safe-shelters/733696/TOKYO: Japan’s Pritzker Award-winning architect Shigeru Ban, famous for designing buildings from paper tubes in disaster areas, says the world needs to think about tackling natural catastrophes in the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) era. While he hopes the pandemic will lead to less of a crush....Mon, 22 Jun 2020 20:38:00 +0200manilatimes-6f917417edbba8a9282aebcae23bf17020200622203800http://www.jordantimes.com/opinion/helen-clark/disaster-and-developmentW hen Typhoon Hagupit made landfall in the Philippines on December 6, memories of Typhoon Haiyan, which killed more than 6,300 people, were fresh in people’s minds. Some 227,000 families — more than a million people — were evacuated ahead of Hagupit’s arrival, according to the United Nations.Sun, 21 Jun 2020 20:42:00 +0200jordantimes-2a680a4f607a26ed9aa8fd9af0aa374620200621204200https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/saturday-review/the-phone-box-at-the-edge-of-the-world-by-laura-imai-messina-review-dm6wvjj3kThis story of a disconnected phone box in rural Japan where the bereaved go to speak to the dead is based on fact. Laura Imai Messina, an Italian author and blogger based in Tokyo with her Japanese husband and children, heard about “the phone of the wind”, a cubicle in a beautiful garden that was....Sat, 20 Jun 2020 01:33:00 +0200thetimes-071afb8c3951ef4734705bfc4f70389a20200620013300https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/saturday-review/the-phone-box-at-the-edge-of-the-world-by-laura-imai-messina-review-dm6wvjj3kThis story of a disconnected phone box in rural Japan where the bereaved go to speak to the dead is based on fact. Laura Imai Messina, an Italian author and blogger based in Tokyo with her Japanese husband and children, heard about “the phone of the wind”, a cubicle in a beautiful garden that was....Sat, 20 Jun 2020 01:09:00 +0200thesundaytimes-071afb8c3951ef4734705bfc4f70389a20200620010900