News/Checkup Thread: Phillipine Supertyphoon

Yes. The VP is looking at 2016, not at the victims. Or 2013, for that matter.

The death toll is now considered over 5k, with 1.6k still missing.

At least it's not the 10k figure predicted after the tycoon.

The presence of JGSDF troops for SAR ops is winning over the typhoon survivors. Most of them said that they have no bad blood with them, which is good since the JSDF need some good overseas PR after their Iraqi deployments, although they've done some limited ones in Aceh a few years ago.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/11/19/why_it_took_a_super_typhoon_to_expose_the_seedy_underbelly_of_philippine_politics

For some of us back home, this hits hard on our local politics.

edited 23rd Nov '13 5:28:23 AM by Ominae

An editorial I found on criticism on local press vs CNN.◊

edited 26th Nov '13 10:15:47 PM by Ominae

Recently, the New People's Army is also assisting in relief efforts. If only done to simply give the national government the finger for not doing a good job in SAR efforts.