The death toll from the Philippines' strongest typhoon of 2012 has risen to at least 230.<br /><br />Officials fear hundreds more bodies will be found as the army and rescuers reach the worst hit villages.<br /><br />One of the areas most devastated by Typhoon Bopha was the Compostela Valley. <br /><br />Up to 80 percent of the plantations here have been destroyed, at an estimated cost of 75 million euros.<br /><br />...<br />http://www.euronews.net/