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                    [Title] => Manila, Canberra sign pact vs terror
                    [Summary] => Filipino and Australian law enforcement agencies signed yesterday a 3.65-million-Australian dollar protocol agreement to help improve the Philippines’ counterterrorism capability.


The protocol forms part of a three-year, five-million-dollar counterterrorism assistance initiative, which was announced by Australian Prime Minister John Howard during his visit to the Philippines in July last year.
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It is not clear whether the talks will include fugitive businessman Dante Tan’s controversial escape to Australia. Tan is wanted for the biggest stock exchange manipulation ever to happen in the Philippines.
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Australia, Canada and the European Union (EU) are reopening their embassies, shut since Nov. 28 after reported threats posed by Islamist terrorists.

Foreign Affairs Secretary Blas Ople told the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines that the EU office reopened last Friday while the Australian Embassy was planning to reopen on Jan. 2.
[DatePublished] => 2002-12-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804901 [AuthorName] => Aurea Calica [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 183748 [Title] => ‘585’ co-pilot: Our right engine quit [Summary] => "The right engine of the plane just quit."

This was what co-pilot Joseph Gardiner told Air Transportation Office (ATO) chief Adelberto Yap yesterday in recounting the last seconds of Laoag International Airlines (LIA) Flight 585 before it crashed early Monday morning.

Gardiner had recalled that while the aircraft was climbing to 350 feet after takeoff, the right engine lost power, causing the aircraft to lose speed before it crashed, Yap said.
[DatePublished] => 2002-11-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1725486 [AuthorName] => Rudy Santos and Nestor Etolle [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR RUTH PIERCE
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                    [Title] => Manila, Canberra sign pact vs terror
                    [Summary] => Filipino and Australian law enforcement agencies signed yesterday a 3.65-million-Australian dollar protocol agreement to help improve the Philippines’ counterterrorism capability.


The protocol forms part of a three-year, five-million-dollar counterterrorism assistance initiative, which was announced by Australian Prime Minister John Howard during his visit to the Philippines in July last year.
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It is not clear whether the talks will include fugitive businessman Dante Tan’s controversial escape to Australia. Tan is wanted for the biggest stock exchange manipulation ever to happen in the Philippines.
[DatePublished] => 2003-07-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 188681 [Title] => Terror threat over; embassies reopen [Summary] => The "credible and specific threat" has passed, in time for Christmas.

Australia, Canada and the European Union (EU) are reopening their embassies, shut since Nov. 28 after reported threats posed by Islamist terrorists.

Foreign Affairs Secretary Blas Ople told the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines that the EU office reopened last Friday while the Australian Embassy was planning to reopen on Jan. 2.
[DatePublished] => 2002-12-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804901 [AuthorName] => Aurea Calica [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 183748 [Title] => ‘585’ co-pilot: Our right engine quit [Summary] => "The right engine of the plane just quit."

This was what co-pilot Joseph Gardiner told Air Transportation Office (ATO) chief Adelberto Yap yesterday in recounting the last seconds of Laoag International Airlines (LIA) Flight 585 before it crashed early Monday morning.

Gardiner had recalled that while the aircraft was climbing to 350 feet after takeoff, the right engine lost power, causing the aircraft to lose speed before it crashed, Yap said.
[DatePublished] => 2002-11-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1725486 [AuthorName] => Rudy Santos and Nestor Etolle [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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