HABI: The Philippine Textile Council has a mission to revive and proliferate more abaca weaving in Catanduanes, known as the abaca capital of the Philippines. The idea is to bring the art of abaca ...

Man-yi uprooted trees, brought down power lines and smashed flimsy houses to pieces after making its first landfall late Saturday on lightly populated Catanduanes island in the typhoon-prone Bicol ...