PH fishermen displaced amid toxic oil spill
A crab covered in oil creeps across the sand as Philippine fishermen wearing white protective suits, rubber gloves, and respirator masks scrape toxic sludge from...
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Fear, defiance for kin of drug war dead
Six years after four policemen burst into her Manila slum shack and shot dead her husband and teenage son, Mary Ann Bonifacio fears for her...
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Marawi walls tell of long, urban war
MARAWI—At first glance, the endless rows of devastated buildings could be the aftermath of a great earthquake. But the punctured, bullet-riddled walls tell the true...
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Typhoon survivors get bleak Christmas
CALUMPIT, BULACAN—Wading through knee-deep floods, 12-year-old Joana Yambao pushes her infant sister in a black wash basin along the surface of the filthy water in...
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Following the brazen assassination of Negros Oriental Governor Roel Degamo early this month, the government is now moving to dismantle...
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"Premeditation should be evidenced in the execution of a criminal act; it should be ‘receded by cool thought and reflection…...
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"What the radicals in UP have succeeded in so far doing is to encourage the youth to resort to bullying...
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"Is it possible to work out a rapprochement or an easing of tensions between (China and the United States)?" How...
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Novotel Manila Araneta City has launched Prana Indian Cuisine. Named after the Sanskrit word for “breath” or “life force," Prana's aim...
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Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.