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Oct 8 2008, Grace

Vigan is the only town in the Philippines that has retained most of its Spanish colonial architecture. In the 18th and 19th centuries, Vigan was the third most important city in the Philippines after Manila and Cebu, two cities now totally modernized and...

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Oct 10 2008 by AP0 Comments

Somali pirates freed 20 Filipino seamen from a hijacked ship they held up for more than 80 days, officials said Friday, as the government doubled the pay of sailors passing through pirate-infested international waters.

 
 
Oct 9 2008 by AP0 Comments

Southeast Asian countries should strengthen their regulations to shield people from potentially harmful food and agricultural products that move easily across borders in the era of free trade, health officials said Thursday.

 
 
Oct 9 2008 by AP0 Comments

Pirates in Somalia released 15 Filipino seamen and four other crewmen of a chemical tanker hijacked nearly two months ago, but were still holding 67 other Filipino sailors, officials said Thursday.

 
 
Oct 8 2008 by AP0 Comments

Rebel groups and government-armed militias using child soldiers in the Philippines and 16 other strife-torn countries face prosecution in the United States under a new U.S. law, a human rights group said Wednesday.

 
 
Oct 1 2008 by AP0 Comments

Three more miners were rescued from a flooded gold mine Wednesday while two of their colleagues were found dead after being trapped for nine days in the northern Philippines, officials said. Three miners remained missing.

 
 
Sep 30 2008 by AP1 Comments

Five gold miners have been rescued after being trapped for a week in a flooded underground tunnel in the mountainous northern Philippines, officials said Tuesday.

 
 
Sep 29 2008 by AP0 Comments

Two gold miners were rescued Monday after being trapped for a week in a flooded underground tunnel in the mountainous northern Philippines, raising hopes that 12 other missing miners are also still alive, officials said.

 
 
Sep 27 2008 by AP1 Comments

Two strong earthquakes rocked the Philippine capital and nearby provinces nearly simultaneously Saturday, but no damage or tsunami alerts were reported, a senior seismologist said.

 
 
Sep 26 2008 by AP1 Comments

Running gunbattles have killed at least eight communist guerrillas and three soldiers after government troops captured a rebel camp in a southern Philippine province, a military spokesman said.

 
 
Sep 24 2008 by AP1 Comments

Something is better than nothing, Filipino veterans said Wednesday after hearing they could get lump-sum benefit payments from the U.S. government more than six decades after they fought alongside American forces during World War II.

 
 
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Mar 19 2007 by Rajni0 Comments

Carina Dayondon, Janet Belarmino, and Noelle Wenceslao - three Filipino women from the Philippine Coast, set off to climb Mt. Qomolangma. They left Manila on Sunday, March 19 and flew to Thailand en route to Nepal to conquer the 8,849.868 metres Mt....

 
 
Feb 13 2007 by Asmita0 Comments

The “Lovapalooza Valentine celebration” in Manila saw thousands of couples come together for a simultaneous kissing session at midnight.

The organizers of the event said 6,124 couples locked lips in an attempt to set a new record for Most...

 
 
Nov 13 2006 by Pooja0 Comments

Women all around the world are still craving for justice which otherwise are not given to them. Recently a case has come up and this time it is from Manila.

Nicole a 23-year-old young woman has blamed four servicemen of sexually molesting her last...

 
 
Dec 27 2005 by Irani2 Comments

GOOD GOLF GRIEF!

Tourism, which sells luxury and indulgence, can be a profligate consumer of natural resources.

Worldwide, 50 million people play golf. Each year, up to 5,000 hectares of the Earth’s land surface - an area the size of Paris - is...

 
 
Nov 14 2005 by Esther2 Comments

You get a good chocolate treat only if you are in Manila. I fail to understand why Lori is using a term like deconstruction to a culinary item, not forgetting that Derrida used it not to define any physical structure, but to analyze the play of...

 
 
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Rosalie Delos Reyes holds her 5-year-old daughter and a 3-year-old son as she breastfeeds them during the Second Synchronized Breastfeeding Worldwide Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008, in Marikina City, east of Manila, Philippines. Held in different parts of the...