Residents who were displaced by flooding brought on by typhoons, cook their meals and wash their clothes at an evacuation centre in Laguna's San Pedro town, south of Manila November 4, 2009. Tens of thousands of people have been housed in evacuation centres for more than a month now after Typhoons Ketsana and Parma hit Metro-Manila and other towns in the Philippine island of Luzon. REUTERS/Erik de Castro (PHILIPPINES SOCIETY DISASTER ENVIRONMENT)
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