Illegal fishing scandals and human rights abuses linked to South Korea’s fishing industry have earned the country a bad reputation that is jeopardising its fish trade with the US and the EU, Greenpeace East Asia said.

Nearly 6,000 residents were evacuated from their homes in Butuan City as floods submerged at least 21 villages there, the Office of the Civil Defense in Caraga region said Friday.

A top-level crisis management team should be assigned in Mindanao to address challenges in areas badly hit by typhoon “Pablo.” The United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) cited the “rising death toll, the extent of damages, and the looming humanitarian crisis” as a result of the powerful storm.