Kalmaegi moved away from western Palawan province into the South China Sea before noon Wednesday and was barrelling toward Vietnam, according to forecasters

Philippine officials on Wednesday said the death toll from widespread flooding and devastation caused by Typhoon Kalmaegi in the country's central region has risen to at least 114 with 127 others reported missing, many of them in a hard-hit province still recovering from a deadly earthquake.

Bernardo Rafaelito Alejandro IV, deputy administrator of the Office of Civil Defence, said most of the deaths were reported in the central province of Cebu, which was pummelled by Kalmaegi on Tuesday, setting off flash floods and causing a river and other waterways to overflow. Read More

Kalmaegi moved away from western Palawan province into

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