Dozens of dogs on their way to a slaughterhouse have been rescued by police in the northern Philippines.

The death toll from storm-triggered flash floods in the southern Philippines has risen to more than 120, with over 100 people missing.

Back-to-back typhoons left at least 55 people dead in the northern Philippines and rescuers scrambling to deliver food and water to hundreds of villagers stuck on rooftops for four days because of flooding.

Typhoon Nalgae has hit the northern Philippines, packing gusts of up to 195 kilometres per hour.

Typhoon Nanmadol began blowing toward Taiwan today after leaving at least 10 people dead and scuttling a visit by a US Navy carrier group in the Philippines, officials said.

Fifteen people are missing after a tropical storm in the northern Philippines flooded a wide swathe of metropolitan Manila, officials said today.

Five people have died in a landslide sparked by four days of heavy rain which flooded several villages in the northern Philippines, an army spokesman said today.

Surging currents swept away 20 people on a bus in central Vietnam today, including a girl ripped from her mother’s arms, while high waters killed 27 others in separate areas as Typhoon Megi loomed offshore.

The Philippines’ most active volcano could have a huge eruption within days, officials warned today after detecting a drastic surge in earthquakes and eerie rumbling sounds in surrounding foothills. Tens of thousands of villagers have been evacuated as a precaution.

A typhoon battered the Philippine capital Manila as surrounding provinces were still reeling from recent flooding, sending residents of one town clambering on to rooftops today to escape rising waters.

Dozens of landslides in the rain-soaked mountains of the northern Philippines killed up to 200 people today.

A disaster-relief official said dozens of landslides in the rain-soaked mountains of the northern Philippines killed an estimated 100 people.

TENS of thousands of villagers fled the likely path of a powerful typhoon bearing down yesterday on the Philippines, as the government braced for the possibility of a second disaster just days after a storm killed more than 420 in four southeast Asian countries.

The Philippines called for urgent international aid today as rescuers pulled more bodies from swollen rivers and debris-strewn streets to bring the flooding death toll to 240.

RESCUERS pulled more bodies from swollen rivers yesterday as residents started to dig out their homes from under carpets of mud after flooding left 140 people dead in the Philippine capital and surrounding towns.

RESCUERS plucked bodies from muddy floodwaters and saved drenched survivors from rooftops yesterday after a tropical storm tore through the northern Philippines and left at least 106 people dead and missing.

Philippine officials said the number of dead or missing from Tropical Storm Ketsana climbed to at least 72 people.

A tropical depression and heavy monsoon rains have killed 11 people and forced more than 74,000 to flee floodwaters in the northern Philippines, officials said today.

A TYPHOON pummelled China’s eastern coast yesterday, toppling houses, flooding villages and forcing nearly a million people to flee to safety.

Big waves set off by a storm battered provinces along the Philippines’ western coast overnight, sending more than 5,000 people fleeing, some falsely thinking there was a tsunami, officials said today.

Vietnam braced for Typhoon Cimaron and planned mass evacuations after the storm slammed the northern Philippines, leaving at least 15 people dead in landslides and flooding, state media reported today.

The death toll from a powerful typhoon that cut across the northern Philippines today rose to at least 48 with dozens of people missing in floods and landslides as residents mounted a massive cleanup.

A bus negotiating a steep downhill road in the northern Philippines lost its brakes and crashed into roadside boulders today, killing 26 people, including the driver, police said.

Helicopters delivered food to survivors and picked up casualties today as flash floods began to recede in the northern Philippines, revealing the magnitude of a disaster triggered by back-to-back storms that killed more than 650 people and left nearly 400 missing.

About 80 dogs on the way to a slaughterhouse – and eventually restaurant menus - have been rescued in the northern Philippines.

A POWERFUL typhoon triggered landslides, destroyed houses and capsized a ferry, killing at least 20 people and leaving hundreds homeless in the Philippines.

A military plane crashed into a residential neighbourhood in northern Philippines today, killing at least three people.

At least 20 convicted murderers, rapists and robbers have escaped a prison in the northern Philippines.