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Philippines: Army not fighting 'all-out war' in south, says president (AKI) - The Philippines government is not conducting an "all-out war" in the southern province of Mindanao despite a military offensive against the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front, President Gloria Arroyo said on...  

MANILA, Philippines - The local unit of US car giant Ford Motor Co. is mulling the possibility of exporting vehicles to Vietnam when adjustments have been made in the trade agreements among countries in Southeast Asia.  

A 5.7-magnitude earthquake jolted parts of the Visayas and northern Mindanao of the Philippines on Monday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said. It said the tremor struck at 10:43 a.m., with the epicenter located 40 kilometers southeast of Maasin town in Southern...  

An earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale hit Leyte, Philippines at 10:47 a.m. (0247 GMT) on Monday, according to a bulletin released by the Hong Kong Observatory. The epicenter was initially determined to be 10.2 degrees north latitude and 125.3 degrees east longitude, about 50 km north...  

MANILA, PHILIPPINES: Thousands of troops backed by air and artillery fire have captured 15 Muslim guerrilla strongholds in the southern Philippines after five days of intense fighting, while more than 272,000 villagers have fled their homes, officials said Monday (25 Aug).  

In the Philippines, "malling" has become a verb, the act of going to a shopping mall and whiling away the hours. The Southeast Asian country has three of the world's 10 largest shopping centers, two of them in the capital, Manila.  

THE Tourism Department is selling the Philippines as an international shopping destination because tourists prefer Filipino brands to foreign ones when shopping here, an official said yesterday.  

Philippine troops check vehicles along a highway in Maguindanao province, southern Philippines as they continue pursuing Muslim rebels on Sunday 24 Aug 2008.  

MANILA, Philippines, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- The Philippines says it won't let up in its fight in Mindanao until Islamic separatists hand over three sub-commanders accused of terrorism.  

Review: The Paradise Trail by Duncan CampbellReads like an acid-dropping version of Alex Garland's The Beach says Robert Collins  

MANILA, Philippines—The Philippine government plans to tap up to $200 million in fresh funding from the World Bank to strengthen a conditional subsidy program which aims to temper the adverse effects of high food and fuel prices on the poor as efficiently as possible.  

At least 48 soldiers and civilians and scores of Muslim rebels have been killed in the southern Philippines in a week of fighting triggered by the collapse of a peace deal, the government said on Saturday.  

At least 144 people have been killed in recent violence after some radical separatists attacked civilians in the Philippines' southern region of Mindanao, disaster-relief and military officials said on Saturday. The death toll from attacks by members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in...  

Fighting eased in the southern Philippines as Muslim rebels who earlier occupied several towns largely ceased fighting and fled, military officials said.  

Entering the 2008 season, the Paradise High School girls varsity golf team is fortunate to have only lost Kelly Imes from last year's team, have a ton of talent returning and have an extremely favorable home course to both practice and play its matches on.