Men look for items which they can salvage from the remains of a building after a fire gutted a poor community last weekend leaving hundreds homeless in Manila, Philippines on Monday, September 15, 2025. (Photo by Joeal Calupitan/AP Photo)





Police escape protesters during a scuffle as they tried to enter the Malacanang presidential palace compound in Manila, Philippines, on Sunday, September 21, 2025. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)





A relative of detained protestors views a demonstration in front of a police station in Manila, Philippines, 22 September 2025. The demonstrators called for the release of more than a hundred detained protesters from a rally in the vicinity of Malacanang presidential palace. Close to a hundred police personnel were hurt in 21 September's violent protests in Manila, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) reported on September 22. The violent protest was triggered by the discovery of corruption on government flood control projects under President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s administration. (Photo by Francis R. Malasig/EPA)





A handout photo taken on September 22, 2025 and received through the courtesy of Facebook page of Tuba Public Information Office on September 23, shows rescuers carrying an injured commuter on a stretcher after a landslide hit vehicles traversing a road at the height of Super Typhoon Ragasa in Tuba town, Benguet province, north of Manila. Ragasa had already toppled trees, tore the roofs off buildings and killed at least one person in a landslide while lashing the northern Philippines, where thousands sought shelter in schools and evacuation centres. (Photo by John Dimain/Tuba Public Information Office/AFP Photo)





A motorist with a dog wades through a flooded road, following heavy rains intensified by Super Typhoon Ragasa, in Apalit, Pampanga province, Philippines, on September 23, 2025. (Photo by Lisa Marie David/Reuters)





A man walks along a road amid heavy rain due to weather patterns from Super Typhoon Ragasa in Lal-lo town, Cagayan province on September 22, 2025. Hundreds of families sheltered in schools and evacuation centres on September 22 as heavy rains and gale-force winds from Super Typhoon Ragasa lashed the northern Philippines and southern Taiwan. (Photo by John Dimain/AFP Photo)





People holding umbrellas struggle against heavy rains and strong winds, as Super Typhoon Ragasa slashes the Southeast Asian archipelagic country, in Metro Manila, Philippines, on September 23, 2025. The powerful tropical storm is expected to bring destructive winds and heavy rains to several parts of East Asia, including mainland China, the Asian financial hub of Hong Kong and parts of Taiwan Island. (Photo by Daniel Ceng/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A dog is seen at the roof of a house in a flooded village due to corruption in flood-control projects, which has been further worsened by frequent typhoons, in Calumpit, Bulacan Province, the Philippines on September, 26, 2025. Corruption left Bulacan's flood-control projects as “ghost projects”, worsening floods up to 2 meters deep. Now, after Typhoon Ragasa and as Storm Bualoi hits, remaining residents face grave danger. (Photo by Daniel Ceng/Anadolu via Getty Images)





In this handout photo taken early September 26, 2025 and released by the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), coast guard personnel evacuate residents along with their pets at the height of Severe Tropical Storm Bualoi in Ormoc City, Leyte province, central Philippines. The Philippines shut schools and scrapped flights on September 25, as a fresh storm threatened to hit just days after a super typhoon killed nine people in the archipelago. (Photo by Handout/Philippine Coast Guard (PCG)/AFP Photo)





Call center employees surf mobile phones as they gather outside their office building after earthquake tremors at Cebu in central Philippines on September 30, 2025. A 6.9-magnitude quake struck off the coast of central Philippines on September 30 evening, the US Geological Survey said, with no immediate reports of casualties or damage. (Photo by Alan Tangcawan/AFP Photo)





A man injured in an earthquake is seen outside the Cebu Provincial Hospital in Bogo City, Philippines, Wednesday, October 1, 2025. (Photo by Jacqueline Hernandez/AP Photo)





Vehicles maneuver past a damaged part of a road in Bogo City on October 1, 2025, after a powerful 6.9 magnitude earthquake jolted the central Philippines, killing dozens on the island of Cebu with fears the toll could rise. The death toll from a powerful earthquake in the central Philippines approached 60 on October 1, with injured patients overwhelming hospitals on the island of Cebu as workers carried dozens of body bags away in the chaotic aftermath. (Photo by Ted Aljibe/AFP Photo)





A car is crushed by the debris of partially collapsed buildings, following a magnitude 6.9 earthquake that jolted parts of the island, in Bogo City, Cebu, Philippines on October 01, 2025. Widespread damages to structures and properties, and multiple injuries and deaths have been reported following a powerful magnitude 6.9 earthquake that struck parts of Cebu on September 30. Local governments have declared a state of calamity in response to the situation, amid continued aftershocks. (Photo by Daniel Ceng/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Earthquake survivor Jesiel Malinao sits beside the coffins of her two sons on Thursday, October 2, 2025 after a strong earthquake on Tuesday caused a landslide that toppled their hillside homes in Bogo city, Cebu Province, Central Philippines. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)





Jesiel Malinao, 34, who survived the magnitude 6.9 quake, sits between the coffins of her two children during their wake in Bogo, Cebu, Philippines, on October 2, 2025. (Photo by Eloisa Lopez/Reuters)





A boy holds a sign that reads “we need food and water please” as he stands by on the roadside with other residents waiting for relief goods, days after the magnitude 6.9 quake in Daanbantayan, Cebu, Philippines, on October 3, 2025. (Photo by Eloisa Lopez/Reuters)





An iguana rests on a man's head during a pet blessing ceremony a day after World Animal Day, at a mall in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines on October 5, 2025. (Photo by Noel Celis/Reuters)





In this photo provided by the Bureau of Fire Protection, firefighters wear protective suits as they respond to a chemical spill incident at the San Pedro College following a strong earthquake in Davao City, southern Philippines on Friday October 10, 2025. (Photo byh Bureau of Fire Protection via AP Photo)





A relative of a victim who died in the 7.4-magnitude earthquake places a candle where the victim died, after a wall collapsed, in Mati town, Davao Oriental province in southern island of Mindanao. A powerful 6.9-magnitude aftershock jolted quake-hit southern Philippines late on October 10, triggering a fresh tsunami alert just hours after an earlier warning, authorities said. (Photo by Mark Navales/AFP Photo)





This handout photo taken on October 10, 2025, and made available through the courtesy of the Facebook page of the Bureau of Fire Protection Region 11 shows a member of the Bureau Fire Protection evacuating a resident in Baganga town, Davao Oriental province, in southern island of Minadanao, after a 7.4-magnitude struck the province. A powerful magnitude-7.4 earthquake struck off the southern Philippines on October 10, 2025, killing at least six people and triggering regional tsunami warnings that were later lifted. (Photo by Handout/Bureau of Fire Protection Region 11/AFP Photo)