FEATURE: Japan-funded projects spare Philippine city from horror of flash floods

Photo taken in February shows a river bank in the central Philippine city of Ormoc. The Japan International Cooperation Agency widened and improved it to mitigate high water events following a massive flash flood in the city in 1991. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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