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Gates donates 20 mln dollars to help rice farmers: instituteManila (AFP) Jan 28, 2008 - Bill Gates, the world's richest man, is to donate nearly 20 million dollars for research into helping rice farmers deal with global warming, the International Rice Research Institute said Monday. |
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Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007Oslo, Norway - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. |
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Brangelina’s 1st AidNew York City, New York, USA - Bill Clinton's global conference to help the world's needy turned into the Brangelina show yesterday -- with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie announcing they're spearheading efforts to raise millions to educate kids in war-torn countries and to rebuild New Orleans. |
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Photo in the News: “Nonexistent” Flying Fox DiscoveredMindoro, Philippines - This unusual species of flying fox was recently discovered in the Philippines not long after it was deemed not to exist. An unusual species of flying fox was recently discovered in the Philippines not long after it was deemed not to exist. |
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Coffee Calms Tension In Southern Philippine PoliticsLanao del Sur Province, Philippines - Fierce political rivals in the traditionally violence-prone Lanao del Sur province in southern Philippines have decided to settle their differences and defuse the rising tension in the region over a cup of coffee. |
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Philippines hopes pineapple peace plan will bear fruitManila, Philippines - The Philippine army plans to transform an insurgency-wracked island into the country's second largest pineapple producing region in an effort to end decades of bloodshed. |
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Workers Inn For $0.52 A Night Launched In ManilaManila, Philippines - Tired or don't have enough fare to go home in Manila, Philippines? |
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Philippines attempts world record for breastfeedingManila, Philippines - About 10,000 mothers gathered on Wednesday in nearly 300 state and private hospitals, day-care centres and parks across the Philippines to raise awareness of breastfeeding and try to set a Guinness record for the event. |
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Pit Bull saves 2 women from deadly cobra, dies wagging his tailBARANGAY LAPASAN (Philippines) - On Monday, Feb. 12 at around 2 p.m., "Chief", an American Pit Bull Terrier, rescued Liberata la Victoria, 87, and her granddaughter Maria Victoria Fronteras from a deadly cobra which had entered their house through an opening in the kitchen. |
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Vietnamese boat rescues 9 Filipino fishermen adrift at sea for 4 daysManila, Philippines - A Vietnamese fishing boat rescued nine Filipino fishermen who spent four days adrift in the South China Sea, officials said Friday. |
news from Southeast Asia
- Rare leatherback turtles return to Malaysia
- Popular UN-backed Internet word game feeds Myanmar’s cyclone victims
- UN agency to resume aid flights into Myanmar
- Endangered bears find refuge in new Vietnam center
- First Lungless Frog Found
- Rare water birds recovering in Cambodia
- Saved by trivia text service
- New bird discovered in Indonesia
- Secretary Rice Honors International Women of Courage
- Rare Sandpipers Found in Myanmar
