MANILA: The Philippines has vowed to take further action to aid those displaced by deadly Super Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, following UN criticism that the government’s response so far had been “inadequate”.
President Benigno Aquino’s spokesman Herminio Coloma said yesterday the government was not merely trying to find new housing for those displaced by the storm, which was the most powerful ever recorded to have hit land, but was also trying to ensure that they would be relocated to safer ground.
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