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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.
Government-armed former militiamen freed 10 more hostages seized in the remote southern Philippines, and their leader demanded Friday that murder charges against them be dropped before they release 47 others.
Efren Peñaflorida, the 2009 CNN Hero of the Year, had a run-in with a pickpocket at a Manila airport on Thursday, but walked away unharmed and ready to laugh off the encounter.
This story will tell today's youth how courageous were their ancestors during the war against Japan.
Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Asia stocks climbed after Chinese industrial production rose more than economists forecast and U.S. jobless claims fell to a one-year low. The yen and credit- default swaps for bonds in Asia fell.
Our Lady of Guadalupe will pay her annual visit to the Tularosa Basin again Saturday. Almost 400 years ago in central Mexico, an Aztec Indian beheld a vision of a woman bathed in light on a mountain dedicated to Tonantsin, a female Aztec deity, who spoke to him.
Tribal gunmen in the southern Philippines warned Friday they would massacre dozens of hostages if police made a rescue bid, as hundreds of security forces surrounded their mountain lair.
In 1993, Bob and Tom Johnson requested permission to cultivate manila clams in their 1,059-acre lease in Drakes Estero. The Department of Fish and Game mistakenly added the clam permit to the Johnson’s second lease, a remote one-acre plot allocated for scallops.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Government-armed former militiamen have freed nine out of 57 hostages they seized in the remote southern Philippines, and are demanding that murder charges against them be dropped before releasing the other captives.
Hearts pounded as the country high school teacher started down the aisle with a ruler that doubled as a billy club.
Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Stocks climbed after Chinese industrial production rose more than economists forecast and U.S. jobless claims fell to a one-year low. The yen and credit- default swaps for bonds in Asia fell.
Judging by the prestige associated with the Nobel Peace Prize which was just awarded to President Barack Obama, the question of how to attain peace is one of the most fundamental matters facing humanity at large.
Judging by the prestige associated with the Nobel Peace Prize which was just awarded to President Barack Obama, the question of how to attain peace is one of the most fundamental matters facing humanity at large.
Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Stocks climbed after Chinese industrial production rose more than economists forecast and U.S. jobless claims fell to a one-year low. The yen and credit- default swaps for bonds in Asia fell.
Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Stocks climbed after Chinese industrial production rose more than economists forecast and U.S. jobless claims fell to a one-year low. The yen and credit- default swaps for bonds in Asia fell.
Manila - Philippine authorities were negotiating Friday for the release of 57 hostages held by gunmen demanding that murder charges against them be dropped. The suspects seized the hostages on Thursday in San Martin village in Prosperidad town in Agu...
