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  1. MANILA: Pushcart to greatnessRead the original story

    2 hrs ago | Asia News Network

    ... the next day. Manny Pacquiao's victory over Miguel Cotto and Penaflorida's accomplishment catapulted the Philippines to global renown. The Maguindanao incident grabbed the spotlight from them and sunk the Philippines in global regard (and notoriety) ...

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    Related Topix: Cavite, Philippines, Southern Tagalog, Philippines, World News

  2. Powerful Filipino clan says innocent in massacreRead the original story

    3 hrs ago | Newsday.com

    GENERAL SANTOS, Philippines - GENERAL SANTOS, Philippines a ' Kristia Subang wiped her father's coffin with a cloth and recalled the last time she saw the veteran newspaperman, when he woke her with a surprise gift of a new set of shoes for school a ' the night before he and 29 colleagues were massacred on their final assignment.

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    Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News, Journalism, Gloria Macapagal-arroyo

  3. Philippines: The Maguindanao Massacre

    3 hrs ago | Scoop

    Monday, 30 November 2009, 1:02 pm Press Release: Asian Human Rights Commission Philippines: How Could The 'Maguindanao Massacre' Been Allowed To Happen? As it has been widely reported, 57 people-including two human rights lawyers and 30 journalists - were slaughtered on November 23 in Maguindanao, a province in central Mindanao.

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  4. Muslim clan denies it killed 57 in PhilippinesRead the original story

    4 hrs ago | Shanghai Daily

    A POWERFUL Muslim clan accused of staging a massacre in the Philippines last week of 57 civilians, including dozens of journalists, denied any involvement in the killings during a rare news conference yesterday.

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  5. Karl philip L.Read the original story w/Photo

    5 hrs ago | New York Lookbook

    Karl philip Leuterio is on LOOKBOOK.nu! HYPE - or - - or - Karl philip Leuterio 22 YEAR OLD MAKE UP JUNKIE/ FASHION EATER/ HEADTONE BELTER/ NURSE FROM MANILA, PHILIPPINES Comments thanks.. u always save my day.. thanks for the hart! mwah.. awww rakile.. i gave u mu contact no.

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  6. Why Andal Ampatuan Jr. Thought He Could Get Away With ItRead the original story w/Photo

    6 hrs ago | The Pinoy

    ... a local mayor and the son of a powerful political patriarch who is allied with no less than the president of the Philippines. The suspect reportedly ordered the massacre to prevent a rival politician from challenging him in the upcoming ...

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    Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News

  7. Politician who lost wife in Philippines massacre files for candidacyRead the original story

    8 hrs ago | The Standard

    A politician whose wife and relatives were among 57 people massacred in the southern Philippines in an apparent bid to stop him from running for governor filed his candidacy today for the election.

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  8. Philippine Visayan travel experience to offset the horror of the Maguindanao massacreRead the original story w/Photo

    Wednesday Nov 25 | Examiner.com

    ... This article is part three of a series of articles whose goal is to offset the horrible news coming out of the Philippines in the last week due to the Maguindanao massacre. Part I Part II By now everyone has heard the gruesome details of how over 50 ...

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    Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News, Terrorism, Cebu, Philippines

  9. CNN's Amanpour: Journalists in dangerRead the original story

    11 hrs ago | ABS-CBN News

    The Philippines this year has been the world's most dangerous country for journalists, an official of the advocacy group the Committee to Protect Journalists told CNN's "Amanpour" program Wednesday .

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    Related Topix: Journalism, Southeast Asia, World News, Gloria Macapagal-arroyo

  10. Asian youth pray for victims of Maguindanao massacreRead the original story

    11 hrs ago | ABS-CBN News

    ... in a country filled with so much faith", Wong said. Besides delegates coming from this year's host country, the Philippines, delegations include: China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Macau, Taiwan, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Brunei, ...

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    Related Topix: Sweden, Asa, Sweden, World News, Kyushu, Japan, Japan, Asae, Japan, Cavite, Philippines, Southern Tagalog, Philippines

  11. Fan the Flames Africa PT02Read the original story

    11 hrs ago | Internet Archive

    ... State Hospital, Lawtey Correctional Institution, and by TV on our show with many amazing guests. "Fan the Flames Philippines" took place in August '08 and '09. We went as the key speakers to Dipolog City, Philippines to large conferences of pastors, ...

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  12. Andres BonifacioRead the original story w/Photo

    12 hrs ago | Manila Times

    Many Filipino nationalists think Andres Bonifacio, the Father of the Philippine Revolution, is a greater national hero than the intellectual, physician, poet, essayist and novelist Jose Rizal.

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    Related Topix: Cavite, Philippines, Southern Tagalog, Philippines, World News, Opinion

  13. Sports EyeRead the original story

    13 hrs ago | Sunday Punch

    ... in the country. The sports-minded Ebdane told me he's planning a bigger event that will be staged throughout the Philippines, starting in Mindanao, then Visayas and ending here in Luzon, most probably in Baguio City to run most likely for 21 or 24 ...

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  14. Powerful clan denies role in Philippine massacreRead the original story

    14 hrs ago | Examiner.com

    Andal Ampatuan Jr., a town mayor suspected in Monday's massacre, of Unsay township, Maguindanao province in southern Philippines, holds his detainee number while being photographed inside his detention cell at the National Bureau of Investigation in Manila Friday Nov.

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    Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News, Gloria Macapagal-arroyo

  15. Suspected NPA rebels raid police station in IsabelaRead the original story

    14 hrs ago | ABS-CBN News

    ... ewriter and a base radio. There was no casualty reported in the incident. The NPA and the Communist Party of the Philippines has been waging a more than 40-year armed insurgency in the Philippines. Comments

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    Related Topix: Cagayan Valley, Philippines, World News

  16. Another Osme a running for senatorRead the original story

    16 hrs ago | ABS-CBN News

    ... and lost in 1998. Promdi has yet to decide which presidential candidate to support in 2010 elections in the Philippines. The former governor said that after more than a decade of absence from government service, he is running to give voice to the ...

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    Related Topix: Cebu, Philippines, World News, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election

  17. Child protection program launchedRead the original story w/Photo

    16 hrs ago | Manila Bulletin

    After the success of its "Spread the Smiles" campaign that helped a number of poor children nationwide continue their education, Sony Ericsson and Ericsson Philippines together with SM Supermalls and UNICEF has joined hands again in launching a mobile education drive, which also seeks to strengthen a program for the protection of children.

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    Related Topix: Laptops/Notebooks, Cebu, Philippines, World News

  18. Ampatuan: Brod’s innocent; we’ll fight suspension Read the original story

    17 hrs ago | Topix

    SHARIFF AGUAK, Maguindanao – (UPDATE) Governor Zaldy Uy Ampatuan of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) came to the defense of his brother, Datu Unsay Mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr., who has been charged with masterminding the Nov. 23 killing of at least 67 people – most of them journalists. "I believe (that he is innocent)," Ampatuan told the Philippine Daily Inquirer and GMA 7 reporters in an interview at his palatial house Sunday afternoon.

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  19. ‘Massacre brains deserve to be burned at the stake’ Read the original story

    17 hrs ago | Topix

    Monet, the journalist’s widow was talking to the Philippine Daily Inquirer when a relative came in and informed her that the top glass of her husband’s coffin had just cracked. “My husband is crying for justice,” was Monet’s immediate reaction to the information. Salaysay, editor of the Cotabato City-based Mindanao Gazette, was part of the convoy of some 30 journalists and members of the Mangudadatu family and their supporters held hostage by a group of armed men allegedly led by Datu Unsay, Maguindanao Mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr in the morning of Nov. 23 in Barangay Salman in Ampatuan town, Maguindanao. “He was the most evil of all evils,” Monet said of Andal Jr., the main suspect in the carnage now known as the Maguindanao massacre. Monet, speaking in the vernacular, did not hide her anger when she added: “if I were to decide on his fate, I would have him burned on a stake," in an apparent reference to the old Christian practice of punishing individuals accused of being heretics or evil practitioners. Monet welcomed the filing of charges against Andal Jr. but said it was not enough. Inquirer Mindanao

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  20. Good Bye Sagada - Sagada, Luzon, PhilippinesRead the original story

    17 hrs ago | TravelPod.com Recent Updates

    Think a village of indigenous intellectuals. I have been up too late most nights playing chess with my local hosts.

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    Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News, Games, Chess