SLIDESHOW: A long week in the Philippine floods

SLIDESHOW: A long week in the Philippine floods:

MANILA, 10 August 2012 (IRIN) - Years of haphazard urban planning, combined with worsening weather events, are bringing death and destruction to the Philippines more often. The country of 100 million people has seen huge slum areas multiply, while riverside communities and upscale city developments have grown across an archipelago battered by about 20 storms annually, some of them deadly.