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China and Southeast Asian governments demanded an explanation from the US and its allies on yesterday following media reports that American and Australian embassies in the region were being used as hubs for Washington's secret electronic data collection program.

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A young American intern at the White House has donated to the online fund-raising drive of the Kristiyano-Islam Peace Library (KRIS) which has committed to send 500 young but smart Christian and Muslim kids to school in five years.

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There are signs that the Philippine economy is headed toward brighter directions.

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One of the first pieces of advice I received from personnel at the East-West Center in Honolulu was to save my dollars and not bother buying bottled water.

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CHENGDU (AP) - When a powerful earthquake flattened Sichuan province a year ago, community organizer Zhang Guoyuan seized the moment.

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Officials of the Global Medical Academy (GMA), who paid a courtesy call on President Arroyo Saturday, bared the concept of a self-sufficient university town to be named the Center for Excellence in Education, which will occupy a three-hectare site in the Freeport.
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This after the approval of its feasibility study by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). The Didipio copper-gold project is one of the government’s 23 flagship mining projects and is only one of two foreign-funded projects under a financial and technical assistance agreement (FTAA).
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So isolated are the islands that make up the country’s smallest province that they are often left off local maps of the Philippines altogether.

But all that is about to change.
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A young American intern at the White House has donated to the online fund-raising drive of the Kristiyano-Islam Peace Library (KRIS) which has committed to send 500 young but smart Christian and Muslim kids to school in five years.

[DatePublished] => 2012-05-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1507622 [AuthorName] => Mary Rose Magcamit [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 784113 [Title] => The Philippine economy - Are there bright prospects ahead? [Summary] =>

There are signs that the Philippine economy is headed toward brighter directions.

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One of the first pieces of advice I received from personnel at the East-West Center in Honolulu was to save my dollars and not bother buying bottled water.

[DatePublished] => 2011-09-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 691810 [Title] => 1966-2011: A nation in search of the new children, parents and teachers [Summary] => In the ancient days in Rome, young virgins were carefully selected to guard the nation’s shrine, which housed the eternal flame. [DatePublished] => 2011-06-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133347 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1659389 [AuthorName] => Preciosa S. Soliven [SectionName] => Education and Home [SectionUrl] => education-and-home [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 465882 [Title] => Government blunts activism set off by China quake [Summary] =>

CHENGDU (AP) - When a powerful earthquake flattened Sichuan province a year ago, community organizer Zhang Guoyuan seized the moment.

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Officials of the Global Medical Academy (GMA), who paid a courtesy call on President Arroyo Saturday, bared the concept of a self-sufficient university town to be named the Center for Excellence in Education, which will occupy a three-hectare site in the Freeport.
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This after the approval of its feasibility study by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). The Didipio copper-gold project is one of the government’s 23 flagship mining projects and is only one of two foreign-funded projects under a financial and technical assistance agreement (FTAA).
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704647 [AuthorName] => Rocel Felix [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 284507 [Title] => We haven’t moved [Summary] => It’s been five days from the controversial act of public contrition which shook the nation, but we haven’t moved from where we stood just before that fateful Monday. After the stern pronouncements of Ms. Susan Roces, the peso has again breached the P56 mark and speculators are counting on the current political controversies to further push the peso down, maybe even past the all-time low of P56.45.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133756 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805279 [AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 271775 [Title] => Batanes prepares for Unesco heritage listing [Summary] => BASCO, Batanes (AFP) — Nothing much has changed in Batanes in a hundred years or more. There are no shopping malls or luxury apartments, electricity is relatively new and telecommunications remain a novelty in this remote corner of the Philippine archipelago, separated only by the Bashi Channel from southern Taiwan.

So isolated are the islands that make up the country’s smallest province that they are often left off local maps of the Philippines altogether.

But all that is about to change.
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