Northwest region of Pacific Ocean has generated 25 named tropical storms this year, up from 17 recorded during typhoon season ...
Typhoon Man-yi crossed central Philippines to enter the East Sea Sunday night, packing winds of up to 149 km per hour, and is forecast to weaken into a tropical depression off Vietnam's central coast.
DOMESTIC rice production is expected to fall below 19.4 million metric tons (MT) this year due to damage caused by successive typhoons, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said on Monday.