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Giant crocodile captured alive in Philippines

Villagers and veteran hunters have captured a one-ton saltwater crocodile which they plan to make the star of a planned ecotourism park in a southern Philippine town, an official said Monday.

Thousands flee as Philippine volcano erupts

Thousands of people in the Philippines fled their homes as a volcano erupted on Monday, sending a spectacular column of ash high into the sky, residents said.

Philippine police arrest 36 in cybersex raid

Thirty-six people have been arrested in the Philippines for illegally selling Internet sex to web users in the United States, authorities said Tuesday.

Chilling photo captures Philippines politician's killer moments before he is shot dead

A politician in the Philippines who was shot dead while taking a photograph of his family on New Year's Day captured his killer on camera just seconds before the assassin fired the fatal shots.

4 killed as gunmen attack passenger bus in Southern Philippines

Two policemen, a bus driver and his assistant were killed when a group of armed men, clad in military and police uniforms, attacked a passenger bus in the southern Philippine province of Lanao del Norte early Thursday, military officials said.

Hong Kong tourists held hostage in the Philippines, ten including gunman killed

The death toll from Monday's hostage crisis in Manila climbed to 10 as of early Tuesday, with another hostage succumbing to injuries in a Manila hospital.

HIV epidemic may be imminent in the Philippines: report

Low condom use, needle sharing and a rise in casual sex and prostitution may unleash an HIV epidemic in the Philippines, according to a new study.

Beauty queen stripped of her Miss Philippines-Universe title

The winner of Miss Philippines-Universe 2010 pageant (Binibining Pilipinas) has been stripped of her title after local organisers discovered she was born overseas and out of wedlock.

Philippines Charges Clan Boss and 196 Others Over Massacre

Stephen Jones The Epoch Times 02/09/2010
Philippines Charges Clan Boss and 196 Others Over Massacre

The patriarch of a powerful clan in the southern Philippines has been charged with authorizing the massacre of 57 of his political rivals.

Philippines mayor pleads not guilty to dozens of murder charges

A member of a politically powerful family in the southern Philippines pleaded not guilty to dozens of murder charges filled against him in connection with a November massacre in Maguindanao province, Philippine news outlets reported.


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