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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. |
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East Asian leaders shelve differences to pressure NKoreaCEBU, Philippines - East Asian leaders have shelved differences to put pressure on North Korea as countries around the region prepared to wrap up days of diplomatic summits with their biggest meeting of all. |
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Guard returns P500,000 left by condo residentQuezon City, Philippines - Were he a weaker man, George Bacod, a security guard at a Quezon City condominium, will be preparing a generous Christmas feast for his family by now. |
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Philippines Volcano Eruption May Have Run Its CourseManila, Philippines - The Mayon volcano's eight-week eruption is nearing its end, giving fresh hope to tens of thousands of people displaced by its lava flows, Philippine authorities said Thursday. |
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Philippines Hopes to Break World Record with Mass Tree-PlantingManila, Philippines - President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo took part Friday in a massive tree-planting campaign aimed at improving air quality in the Philippines while breaking a world record. |
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Waterproof rice can outlast the floodsPhilippines - Rice grows best in flooded paddy fields. Too much water, however, and modern high-yield varieties drown within a few days. |
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ADB Approves Loan To Clean Up Most Polluted River In ChinaManila, Philippines - The Asian Development Bank said Monday it approved an 80 million-dollar loan to help clean up one of China's most polluted rivers. |
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Rebels close to peace deal with ManilaCotabato City, Philippines - The leader of the Phili-ppines' biggest Muslim rebel group yesterday said a peace agreement with Manila is within reach, raising hopes of an end to more than three decades of fighting that has killed over 100,000 people and stunted economic development in the south. |
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Philippines caps fish culture activity at its largest lakeManila, Philippines - Fish farming activity at Laguna de Bay, one of southeast Asia's largest lakes, is to be curtailed to save the waters from worsening pollution, the environment department said Thursday. |
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Kaiser of the corals leadsPaglao, Philippines - Horn looks out across the tranquil waters off Panglao Island in the central Philippines and says: "It wasn�t always like this . . . quiet and peaceful." |
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