- - - - PADANG, Indonesia - Health workers doused the Indonesian city of Padang with disinfectant over concerns about disease outbreaks six days after a deadly earthquake rattled Sumatra. The rescue mission in Padang, a port of 900,000, and in surrounding hills devastated by landslides has now turned to a huge relief effort to help thousands who have lost their homes. [nSP521502] - - - - MANILA - Tropical storm Parma, stalled for two days off northwestern Philippines, was slowly heading toward the country's tobacco-producing region after killing at least 22 people. Right behind it is Typhoon Melor, a category 4 storm currently south of Okinawa and on a path that could take it over Tokyo by Thursday, according to the weather tracking website Tropical Storm Risk. [nMAN489557] - - - - MANADO, Indonesia - Indonesia's North Sulawesi has approved an environmental study for a gold project involving U.K.-based miner Archipelago Resources, the province's governor said. Archipelago Resources, which owns 85 percent of the Indonesian unit, PT Meares Soputan Mining (MSM), had to delay development of its Toka Tindung gold project in North Sulawesi due to environmental concerns from the local government. [nJAK174783] - - - - MANILA - Philippine annual inflation picked up in September for the first time in seven months but the average rate this year and next should stay on target despite higher prices caused by typhoons, central bank officials said. Inflation stood 0.7 percent in September, its first annual rise against the previous month since February, and analysts and the central bank expect farming losses from two typhoons in the past two weeks to push up food costs. [nMAN521698] - - - - HONG KONG - Singapore Airlines said that its yields improved in the quarter ended September, but would remain negative through to the end of the year as the sector struggles in the economic downturn. "The trends are moving in the right direction. We hope it will hold, but it's hard to tell," Chew Choon Seng, CEO of the world's biggest airline by market value, told reporters on the sidelines of an aviation conference in Hong Kong. [nHKG176695] (Compiled by Carl Bagh)
Indonesian students grab a crayon during a trauma healing exercise organised by World Vision at their school which was damaged in an earthquake at Kampung Timbalun in Padang, West Sumatra province ...
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