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Smaller Asian countries slowly loosing it's identity - Need's a Rethinking
Oct 12 2009, Raj

China is slowly and gradually taking control of poor countries that surround India. By throwing up economic support to smaller countries, these countries are getting bogged down to demands from China. China’s clear strategy of occupying neighbouring..

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Militants Behead School Principal in Philippines
Joel, Manila
Muslim militants beheaded a school principal on a remote southern island in the Philippines after holding him for ransom for three weeks, a marine general said on...
Philippines, Militants, Muslim rebels
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The Significance (to me) of Obama’s Nobelization
Grace Calderon, Quezon City
I know I should be attending more to my car repairs and house repainting (I was a victim, too, of the recent massive flooding of Metro Manila, thanks to Cyclone...
Obama, Nobel Peace Prize, peacekeeping
made popular Oct 12 2009
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Philippine mudslides, floods kill more than 160
Jack, Los Angeles
Rescuers struggled through mud and pounding rain Friday to clear mountain roads and retrieve more than 160 dead from dozens of landslides that buried villages and cut...
mudslides, floods, landslides
made popular Oct 9 2009
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Typhoon batters northern Philippines
Nicholas, Liverpool
A powerful typhoon Saturday battered extreme northern Philippines with forceful winds and heavy rains, but spared the capital and surrounding areas still recovering...
Typhoon Parma, typhoon, floods
made popular Oct 3 2009
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More woes for Philippines: flood deaths rise to 300, second storm threatens the country
Rizaldy, Manila
Victims of floods in the Philippines trudged through ankle-deep sludge to crowded relief centres in search of scarce food and clean water today, as the government...
Philipines strom, Floods, Death in floods
made popular Sep 30 2009
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Philippine toll rises to 246 as new storms brew
Khalil, Manila
Rescuers pulled more bodies from swollen rivers and debris-strewn streets Tuesday, pushing the toll from flooding in the northern Philippines to more than 284 dead or...
storm, Philippines storm, Philippines Death Toll
made popular Sep 29 2009
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9 Dead, 926 Rescued From Capsized Philippine Ferry
Marcus, Manila
Passengers leapt into the dark sea and parents dropped children into life rafts when a ferry carrying nearly 1,000 people capsized in the middle of the night in the...
rafts, ferry, rescue
made popular Sep 7 2009
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Easy steps to relieve 'moments of depression'
Maynard, Manila
The global effects of recession have resulted to numerous setbacks worldwide. Conflicts among nations, particularly the war against terrorism, worsen the situation....
recession, depression, global problems
made popular Aug 27 2009
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Philippines' deadly clashes devour Dozens
Patrick, Manila
The fighting was sparked by military raids on Abu Sayyaf militant training camps in the villages of Silangkum and Baguindan on the southern island province of Basilan,...
Philipines Crashes, Islamic militants, military raids
made popular Aug 13 2009
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Typhoon Morakot kills 10 in Philippines
Johnny, Manila
Three French tourists died when their vehicle was swept into the water; two local tourist guides also died when they tried to rescue them, she said. Heavy rain...
Typhoon, Morakot, Philippines Typhoon
made popular Aug 8 2009
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Philippines’ Icon of Democracy Ms Aquino Passes Away
Karim Khan, Peshawar
Ex-president of Philippines and global icon of democracy Miss Corazon Aquino died on Saturday (August 01, 2009) at the age of 76. She had been suffering from colon...
Corazon Aquino, Ferdinand Marcos, icon of democracy
made popular Aug 5 2009
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Thank You, Cory
Grace Calderon, Quezon City
She passed away 8 hours ago, after a 16-month battle with colon cancer which doctors found a week ago to have spread to her liver. I don’t wish to remember Cory on...
Cory Aquino, People Power Revolution, female stereotype
made popular Aug 1 2009
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Saudi Marries Philippine Woman for Kidney
Marco Villa, Connecticut
Some men marry for love, other for the men, and then there are the romantic type who marry for the kidney. A Saudi man falls in that third category. The Philippines...
organ transplant industry, ban on foreign organ sales, Saudi Arabia
made popular Jul 21 2009
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Hate: Not a Meme to Trust (or Why Armed Jihad in Southeast Asia Will Not Prosper)
Grace Calderon, Quezon City
In Jack Balkin’s Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology, memes are said to be the foundation of ideological thought, and that they form the cultural ideas behind...
religion, Jemaah Islamiah, al-Qaeda in Southeast Asia
made popular Jul 18 2009
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12 killed, 100 others injured in series bombings in S Philippines
Khalil, Manila
Two separate blasts rocked the restive southern Philippines and killed six civilians Tuesday morning, bringing the death toll to 12 in bombings there over the past...
Philippine, bombings, Bombing in Philipines
made popular Jul 7 2009
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No one to take them, the Guantanamo Uighurs can stay in my house
Grace Calderon, Quezon City
The Uighurs are an ethnic group composed mostly of Muslim people who want their territory, the Xinjiang province in western China, to become independent. In their claim...
Guantanamo Uighurs, global untouchables, terror suspects
made popular Jun 15 2009
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Ice Does Melt: An Inconvenient Truth
Grace Calderon, Quezon City
Introspecting (yes, I indulge in it once in a while), I find 10 good reasons why I can’t seem to haul myself on the panic bandwagon of this global warming...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Global Warming Panic
made popular May 15 2009
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China’s Fingerprint All Over Southeast Asia’s Fate
Grace Calderon, Quezon City
The United States used to own the commercial and diplomatic franchise in Southeast Asia’s economic and political fate and fortune. Such is no longer the case. China...
China aid, Southeast Asia, Chinese influence in Asia
made popular May 14 2009
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Boys in the Woods
Grace Calderon, Quezon City
I was on a trip for some documentary film project in Mindanao, the beleaguered region in southern Philippines that has lately figured in international news once again...
Mindanao, Radical Islamists, Child labor
made popular May 11 2009
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Do you really know Third World?
Grace Calderon, Quezon City
When William Wallace, portrayed by Mel Gibson in the film ‘Braveheart,’ screamed “Freedom!” moments before he was decapitated, one can’t help but notice that...
Third World, Poverty, Freedom
made popular May 6 2009
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China’s Fingerprint All Over Southeast Asia’s Fate
Grace Calderon, Quezon City
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made popular May 14 2009
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