News: Philippines

We have started to collect the most important news related to Philippines in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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Philippines: news

Clan 'behind Philippine massacre'

Wednesday, September 8th 2010, 15:52

A powerful family accused of being behind the worst political massacre in the Philippines plotted the killings over dinner, a court has heard.
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Clan 'behind Philippine massacre'

Wednesday, September 8th 2010, 9:32
related places: Manila

The first witness in the trial of a powerful clan accused of the Philippines' worst political massacre says the family plotted the killings over dinner.
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Manila in hostage coffin 'mix-up'

Thursday, September 2nd 2010, 10:42
related countries: Hong Kong
related places: Manila

The Philippines vows to probe claims that coffins of three of Hong Kong's eight victims of last week's hijacking in Manila were wrongly labelled.
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Hong Kong rally over Manila dead

Sunday, August 29th 2010, 17:51
related countries: Hong Kong
related places: Manila

Thousands rally in Hong Kong to express their anger at the Philippines' handling of a coach hijacking in which eight Hong Kong tourists died.
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Hong Kong rally over Manila dead

Sunday, August 29th 2010, 12:52
related countries: Hong Kong
related places: Manila

Thousands of people have joined a rally in Hong Kong to express their anger at the Philippines' handling of last week's tourist coach hijacking.
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Funeral for Manila hostage-taker

Sunday, August 29th 2010, 5:11
related places: Manila

Some 1,000 people in the Philippines attend the funeral of the sacked policeman who seized a bus and killed eight hostages in Manila.
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Manila police ignored army offer

Thursday, August 26th 2010, 22:01
related places: Manila

Police handling the armed siege of a tour bus in Manila made no use of an offer of help from a military squad trained in hostage negotiations.
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Hong Kong mourns hijack victims

Thursday, August 26th 2010, 15:37
related countries: Hong Kong

A three-minute silence has been observed across Hong Kong for the eight tourists killed in a bus hijack in the Philippines on Monday.
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Hong Kong mourns Manila victims

Thursday, August 26th 2010, 6:34
related countries: Hong Kong
related places: Manila

People across Hong Kong observe three minutes' silence for the eight tourists killed in a Philippines bus hijack on Monday.
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Manila police admit siege bungle

Tuesday, August 24th 2010, 21:48
related countries: Hong Kong

Philippine police admit incompetence in their handling of Monday's bus hijacking in which eight Hong Kong tourists were shot dead.
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Fatal mistakes

Tuesday, August 24th 2010, 15:28
related places: Manila

Ten things the Manila bus siege police got wrong
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How did it end in such carnage?

Tuesday, August 24th 2010, 13:28
related countries: Hong Kong
related places: Manila

The Philippine government is to send a high-level delegation to Hong Kong amid increasing public anger there over the deaths of eight citizens in the hijacking of a tourist bus in Manila.
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Philippines hit by HK bus anger

Tuesday, August 24th 2010, 11:59
related countries: Hong Kong
related places: Manila

The Philippines is to send a top delegation to Hong Kong amid increasing public anger there over the death of eight citizens in a bus hijack in Manila.
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Hong Kong issues Philippine alert

Tuesday, August 24th 2010, 4:55
related countries: China, Hong Kong

Hong Kong warns against travel to the Philippines and China demands a full investigation after eight tourists were shot and killed in a bus hijack.
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Aquino pledges bus siege inquiry

Monday, August 23rd 2010, 22:43
related countries: Hong Kong

The Philippines authorities will thoroughly investigate how eight Hong Kong tourists were killed in a day-long bus siege, President Benigno Aquino says.
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Hostages die in Manila bus siege

Monday, August 23rd 2010, 18:04
related places: Manila

A bus hijacking in the Philippine capital in which eight Hong Kong tourists died ends after police shoot and kill the hostage-taker, a former police officer.
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Filipino farmers to get crop advice via mobile phone

Sunday, August 22nd 2010, 4:14

Farmers in the Philippines will soon be able to receive free text messages with advice on how to grow their rice.
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Philippines police 'torture' man

Wednesday, August 18th 2010, 14:20

The authorities in the Philippines investigate mobile phone footage that appears to show police torturing a naked man.
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Philippine airport bomb kills two

Friday, August 6th 2010, 4:28
related countries: United States
related places: Zamboanga

A bomb at the airport in Zamboanga, southern Philippines has killed two people and caused a US ambassador's trip to be cancelled.
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Church vs state

Tuesday, August 3rd 2010, 23:17

Sex education plan sparks row in the Philippines
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Talks on Philippine airline row

Tuesday, August 3rd 2010, 5:52

Government officials in the Philippines hold emergency talks with the national airline to stop an exodus of pilots in search of better pay.
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Talks on Philippine airline row

Tuesday, August 3rd 2010, 5:52

Government officials in the Philippines hold emergency talks with the national airline to stop an exodus of pilots in search of better pay.
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Facebook reveals murder suspect

Tuesday, July 27th 2010, 22:22

Police in the Philippines use Facebook to find and arrest a suspect in the murder of nine people, including three foreigners.
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Fatal Philippine storm cuts power

Wednesday, July 14th 2010, 15:14

The first typhoon of the season hits the Philippines, killing at least 22 people and cutting power to millions of homes.
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Coup plotter surrenders in Manila

Thursday, July 8th 2010, 6:01
related places: Manila

A rebel soldier who took part in the 2007 occupation of a luxury hotel in Manila surrenders to the new Philippine government.
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Philippine runaway bus kills 15

Sunday, July 4th 2010, 5:24

At least 15 people are killed when a runaway bus crashes into a wall in the Philippines after the vehicle's brakes fail.
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