| 10/6/2008 | Inquirer.net | Topics: Regions |
| Living museum on how to survive |
| BACOLOR, PAMPANGA—The village of Cabalantian here could well serve as a living museum on how to survive a disaster.
On Oct. 1, the 13th anniversary of what residents have called the "Cabalantian Tragedy," they teem with first-hand accounts of the abrupt and high surges of lahar, and the lessons they drew from it. |
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| 10/6/2008 | Inquirer.net | Topics: Regions |
| Militants fail to find missing activist |
| BAGUIO CITY—Members of the Cordillera Peoples Alliance have started visiting military camps in Northern Luzon to look for an activist who went missing on Sept. 17, but they have come back empty-handed. |
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| 10/6/2008 | Inquirer.net | Topics: Regions |
| Food catered at penal farm – COA report |
| MANILA, Philippines—The Commission on Audit (COA) has asked a penal colony in Zamboanga City to stop spending taxpayer money on "catering services" for its inmates, insisting that they are supposed to grow their own food. |
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| 10/6/2008 | Inquirer.net | Topics: Regions |
| Sayyaf leader dictating kidnap demands |
| ZAMBOANGA CITY—A Sulu-based Abu Sayyaf leader has been dictating the terms and conditions for the release of two humanitarian workers kidnapped in Basilan province. |
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| 10/6/2008 | Inquirer.net | Topics: Regions |
| Cabalantian Tragedy |
| Cabalantian, one of the 21 villages of Bacolor, Pampanga, located beside the then Gugu Creek. An old earth dike, built during the American period, protects the village from floods. |
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| 10/6/2008 | Inquirer.net | Topics: Regions |
| Mine survivor upset by ‘criminal’ tag |
| BAGUIO CITY -- As soon as Joseph Anayasan emerged on Friday from a flooded mining tunnel in Itogon, Benguet, where he was trapped for 11 days, he got the sad news from relatives that the police had declared him a fugitive. |
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| 10/4/2008 | Inquirer.net | Topics: Regions |
| UN sends 40 tons of biscuits to Mindanao |
| DAVAO CITY, Philippines—Reports about the increasing number of children dying of hunger in refugee camps in conflict areas in Mindanao has prompted the United Nation’s World Food Program (WFP) to ship in about 40 tons of high-energy and highly-nutritious biscuits. |
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| 10/4/2008 | Inquirer.net | Topics: Regions |
| Catholic laity backs Panlilio |
| ILOILO CITY, Philippines—The national organization of the Catholic laity has thrown its support behind Pampanga Gov. Eddie “Ed” Panlilio who is facing a recall campaign to oust him from office. |
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| 10/4/2008 | Inquirer.net | Topics: Regions |
| Ang Kapatiran targets 2010 posts in 2010 |
| ILOILO CITY, Philippines—Unfazed by its dismal showing in the last elections, the Ang Kapatiran (Alliance for the Common Good) party will be targeting at least 2010 positions in the 2010 national and local elections. |
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| 10/4/2008 | Inquirer.net | Topics: Regions |
| Newsbriefs |
| TAGUM CITY, Philippines—At least five persons, including an infant and a soldier, were killed in separate mishaps in Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental last week, police said Friday. |
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