Philippine investigators opened an inquiry on Wednesday into a ferry disaster believed to have killed 800.
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/ 14 February 2008
Philippines security officials said on Thursday they had uncovered a plot by Islamic militants linked to the al-Qaeda network to assassinate President Gloria Arroyo. Her security chief, Brigadier General Romeo Prestoza, said Arroyo had been informed of the threat, which forced her to cancel a scheduled trip on Friday to the northern resort city of Baguio.
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/ 26 January 2008
Women may be smashing glass ceilings on Wall Street, but a walk down the corridors of the World Economic Forum would have you fooled. Organisers say female delegates make up 17% of the hundreds of policymakers and business leaders that gathered in Davos this week — less than one in five.
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/ 30 November 2007
Philippine authorities launched a manhunt on Friday for more suspects accused of helping stage a dramatic but short-lived rebellion against the government, which was put down by the military. The small band of primarily armed-forces officers, who seized a luxury hotel on Thursday, were bundled off by police after a lightning raid.
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/ 29 November 2007
Fierce firefights broke out inside a five-star hotel in the Philippines capital on Thursday as government forces entered to arrest a group of military rebels, a reporter on the scene said. An armoured troop vehicle rammed repeatedly into the main door of the hotel and roared into the lobby amid a hail of gunfire.
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/ 25 November 2007
Seven people have been killed and tens of thousands evacuated their homes as Typhoon Mitag approaches the eastern Philippines, disaster relief agencies said on Sunday. The approach of Mitag was affected by a tropical storm, named Hagibis, which hit the country last week and which is now heading back.
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/ 22 November 2007
Thousands of people were being evacuated on Thursday as tropical storm Mitag gained strength, becoming a typhoon as it neared the eastern Philippines, officials said. Mitag, packing winds of 120km/h with gusts of 150km/h was barrelling towards the Bicol peninsula, south-east of the capital, Manila, the local weather bureau said.