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An online petition is now circulating among Filipino Internet users, urging the management of the Philippine Basketball Association team Burger King to donate the lost income of its suspended player, Wynne Arboleda, to the victims of the recent typhoons in the Philippines.

Arboleda has been suspended for the rest of the season in the country’s premiere professional basketball league for attacking a fan who was heckling him. The suspension without pay means 2.73 million Philippine pesos (around 81,540 Singapore dollars) in lost income for the Burger King player.

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Once more attesting to the fact that social media can be used for socially relevant causes, Yahoo! Philippines has tapped Flickr to create an online photo database of missing persons.

This initiative aims to help families find their loved ones who are still missing as a result of the floods spawned by the typhoons that recently devastated the Philippines, Ondoy (international codename: Ketsana) and Pepeng (Parma).

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Here’s a look at the Twibbon and some recent supporters.

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Read my CNET Asia blog post for more examples of online support for the victims of Ondoy/Ketsana.

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The outpouring of support through different online networks for the victims of the epic floods unleashed by tropical storm Ondoy (international codename: Ketsana) in the Philippines has been nothing short of phenomenal.

From the constantly updated blog post by Manuel L. Quezon III compiling information for those who want to help, to this TXTPower drive for donations via PayPal, to the Google Ondoy landing page that was created to help the typhoon victims, online efforts to share information and provide help dominated Philippine cyberspace.

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I’m blogging this using a prepaid HSDPA USB modem as our condominium still has no electricity after several hours, yet I’m luckier than many of my countrymen, some of whom are still stranded on the road or even on the rooftops of their houses.

Metro Manila and 23 provinces are now in a state of calamity in the wake of massive floods brought about by the heaviest rainfall in our country’s recorded history. Twitter and social networking sites such as Facebook have been the main means Filipino Internet users have kept pace with developments and shared information, such as the text numbers for disaster relief agencies and volunteer organizations now that voice networks are clogged.

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