8:58 pm: ASEM asks ASEAN to match typhoon-hit Philippines’ needs
The ASEM Foreign Ministers’ meeting today asked the ASEAN Secretariat to match the requirement of typhoon-hit Philippines in which thousands of people lost their lives as India was also considering extending assistance to that country. Conveying their condolences at the loss of lives, the Foreign Ministers at the meeting asked the ASEAN Secretariat not to duplicate but match the requirement of Philippines, sources said. – PTI
8:00 pm: Economic losses of close to about USD 810 million in Hainan
The typhoon has resulted in economic losses of close to about USD 810 million in Hainan by Monday evening, especially in the agricultural, fishing and forestry sectors, according to Chen Wu, spokesman for the Hainan Provincial Flood, Drought and Typhoon Prevention Department. Typhoon Haiyan has destroyed over 3,600 houses and damaged about 1.22 lakh hectares of farmland in the province.
7:05 pm: 9 dead in Haiyan-triggered rainstorms in China
Nine persons have been killed in incidents triggered by Typhoon Haiyan. The typhoon has killed over 10,000 lives in Philippines, as per reports. Two bodies were found in the southern island province of Hainan, as per state-run Xinhua news agency. Also, five crew members of the ship remained missing after the ship’s mooring rope broke when the typhoon drove the vessel away from Sanya in Hainan, the report said.
6:40 pm: UN climate talks open amid ‘sobering’ typhoon
Nations launched a new round of talks today for a 2015 deal to cut Earth-warming greenhouse gas emissions in the aftermath of a deadly Philippines typhoon the UN’s climate chief labelled “sobering”. The 12-day United Nations talks opened amid a slew of warnings about potentially disastrous warming with increasingly extreme weather phenomena unless humankind changes its atmosphere-polluting, fossil-fuel burning ways.
“What happens in this stadium is not a game. There are not two sides but the whole of humanity. There are no winners and losers, we all either win or lose in the future we make for ourselves,” UN climate chief Christiana Figueres told climate negotiators. – AFP
6:20 pm: Philippine President declares state of national calamity
Philippine President Aquino declares state of national calamity after Typhoon Haiyan left thousands dead and hundreds homeless.
6:05 pm: Philippines negotiator to fast for climate progress
A climate negotiator from the Philippines, which is mopping up the devastation of Typhoon Haiyan, pledged Monday to fast at UN talks in Warsaw until clear progress is made in the fractious process. “In solidarity with my countrymen who are struggling to find food back home and with my brother who has not had food for the last three days… I will now commence a voluntary fasting,” envoy Naderev Sano said as the 12-day talks opened to discuss ways of curbing climate-altering greenhouse gas emissions. – AFP
5:00 pm: Tropical depression ‘Zoraida’ might worsen the situation
To make matters worse, another tropical depression named ‘Zoraida’ is set to hit Philippines on late Tuesday, bringing in heavy rainfalls and pass through the areas already battered by Typhoon Haiyan.
According to a report posted on Philippine Information Agency (PIA), the country’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has ordered pre-emptive evacuation in low-lying and landslide-prone areas in Bohol, Cebu and Southern Leyte.
The report says that although tropical storm Zoraida has been described as less powerful than super typhoon Yolanda, it would be better to be over-prepared”.
4:30 pm: Philippine military confirms 942 deaths
The official death toll from typhoon Haiyan was pegged at 942 by the country’s military. Also, 275 were told to be missing, said the Military spokesman Lt Jim Alagao. However, two top officials pegged the death toll at more than 10, 000 earlier on Sunday.
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