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RENO, Nev. - University of Nevada swimmers Marichi Gandionco and Heidi Gem Ong will represent the Philippines at the 25th Southeast Asia Games being held Dec. 9-18 at Vientiane, Laos. Both swimmers are from Quezon City and are scheduled to take the pool on Thursday.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Government-armed former militiamen wanted for murder and banditry took more than 70 villagers and children hostage Thursday from a southern Philippines village, demanding charges be dropped against them before they would free the captives.
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Nell Nolan's column for December 10, 2009
Pauline Lord sits in the kitchen of her home in East Lyme, sunlight streaming through windows that wrap two walls. One morning last week, she reflected on the past decade, during which she and her husband, David Harlow, created a small but thriving organic business at White Gate Farm, hailed for its diversity and creativity.
The academic overseers of Spanish have taken a stab at publishing rules for language. The results are coming out in a 4,000-page tome.
Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- The following companies may have unusual price changes in Asia trading , excluding Japan. Stock symbols are in parentheses, and share prices are from the previous close, unless noted otherwise.
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – In a paper appearing online today in Science , members of the Human Genome Organization's Pan-Asian SNP Consortium reported on genetic patterns in more than 70 Asian populations.
Amber D. Johnson, 21, 32 Estate Drive, theft, Dec. 1.
BY JOHN REED LEADER EDITOR NORTH JUDSON — If you’re shopping for scented pine cones at Walmart or craft supplies at Michael’s, there’s a good chance they came from American Oak Preserving Company in North Judson.
Can a Barcelona truck driver be expected to speak like a Buenos Aires banker? Can rules be imposed on a language spoken by 400 million people stretching from Madrid to Manila?
World champion Manny Pacquiao has invited Miguel Cotto and his wife to General Santos, Philippines to attend Manny’s birthday festivities on December 17. When Bob Arum was recently in Manila, Pacquiao said he had great respect for Cotto and would be honored if he and his wife could attend.
In paper titled "Mapping Human Genetic Diversity in Asia," published online in Science, over 90 scientists from the Human Genome Organization's Pan-Asian SNP Consortium report that their study conducted within and between different populations in Asia continent showed that genetic ancestry was highly correlated with ethnic and linguistic groups.
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Two things may help to explain the violent power politics in this impoverished part of the southern Philippines: the mansions at the center of this town, and the armed men who guard them.
Suspected bandits trying to evade police serving arrest warrants abducted dozens of villagers in the southern Philippines on Thursday and were still holding 57 hostages after releasing all the schoolchildren they had seized, officials said.
