MANILA, Philippines ... 20 typhoons and storms each year. It’s often hit by earthquakes and has more than a dozen active volcanoes, making it one of the world’s most disaster-prone countries.

Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr., who oversees disaster-response efforts, ordered the forced evacuation of people in high-risk areas ... and typhoons batter the disaster-prone Philippines ...

Typhoon Haima, which on Tuesday became the planet's seventh Category 5 storm of the year, is slamming northern Luzon in the Philippines with damaging winds, storm surge flooding and heavy rains.

MANILA--A powerful typhoon ... Philippines each year. The archipelago is located in the seismically active Pacific “Ring of Fire” region, making it one of the world’s most disaster-prone ...

CABANATUAN CITY, Philippines (CNN)-- Typhoon ... evacuated when her home flooded. The typhoon is expected to dump as much as 8 to 20 inches of rain in areas still water-logged from last week's ...

Perhaps it was something he saw when he visited the people of Eastern Visayas, among the Philippines’ poorest and most ...

(CNN)-- The fourth typhoon to hit the Philippines in a month came ashore east of the capital, Manila, on Saturday morning, bringing heavy rain, flooding, and washing away shanty houses near the coast.

Several areas of the port ... landslides across Vietnam. The typhoon had left a trail of destruction and two dozen people dead across southern China and the Philippines before it ravaged Vietnam.