When typhoon Haiyan ripped up Jaime Boctot's home and killed 14 members of his family, he would not be moved.
Another, the well-known campaigner Ye Haiyan, held up a sign reading: "Principal, call me if you want to get a room.
Officials are struggling to bring aid to areas of the Philippines worst affected by Typhoon Haiyan, with up to 10,000 people feared dead in Tacloban.
A huge international relief effort is under way in the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan killed up to 10,000 people in just one city.
The country was locked down as Typhoon Haiyan chewed up island communities throughout the Pacific and roared toward Tacloban, where it would claim an estimated 2,500 lives.
The outpouring of foreign assistance for the hundreds of thousands left homeless and hungry by Typhoon Haiyan is shaping up to be a monumental show of international largess — and a not-so-subtle dose of one-upmanship directed at the region's fastest-rising power, China.
China has always had matchmakers but none quite like Gong Haiyan, who set up the country's largest online dating website as a graduate student, 10 years ago.
Growing up, Gong Haiyan never considered herself a catch.
In the Philippines, researchers found that the international response to Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, backed up by $1bn in overseas money, had been "timely and met the critical objectives of providing food, water and shelter and preventing significant post-event mortality and morbidity".
"Children who were caught up in Haiyan are still traumatised by their experience and need ongoing assistance," said Beckham.
