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Rappler Talk: How PH will host Obama, Xi, leaders in APEC 2015
MANILA, Philippines – Rappler sits down with Ambassador Marciano Paynor Jr., the person at the helm of the 2015 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) National Organizing Council, to talk about the...
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Website on mass killings tribunal inaccesible in Indonesia
JAKARTA, Indonesia – The official website on the tribunal, which is hearing the case of activists against Indonesia regarding the brutal 1965 mass killing in the country, is inaccessible in...
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VLOG: The world's window into APEC 2015
MANILA, Philippines - In the coming days, media from around the globe converge in Manila to cover the 2015 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit. Here is a look at the world's window into this major...
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Senators grill airport officials over bullet-planting scam
MANILA, Philippines – Airport officials got into hot water at the Senate, as lawmakers grilled them for failing to take responsibility to curb incidents of the alleged tanim-bala or bullet-planting...
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LIVE: Day 2 APEC Philippines 2015
MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines first hosted the APEC summit in 1996 in Subic, Zambales. Back then, the country was dubbed as "Asia's next economic tiger."Liberalizing the telecommunications...
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Putin, Jokowi skipping APEC in Manila
MANILA, Philippines – Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indonesian President Joko Widodo will no longer attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in the Philippines, officials said...
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Maternal mortality cut by almost half in 25 years – UN
GENEVA, Switzerland – Deaths of women from pregnancy-related causes have fallen by almost half across the world in the past quarter century, but only 9 countries have achieved the targets set by the...
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COA goes after DND for P752-M unliquidated quick response fund
MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Audit (COA) continues to go after the Department of National Defense (DND) for failing to liquidate P752 million (about $16 million)* in Quick Response Fund...
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Lawmaker tells Makabayan: 'Attend probe instead of rallying'
MANILA, Philippines – The chairperson of the House committee on indigenous cultural communities and indigenous peoples called on concerned individuals and groups to attend hearings on Lumad killings...
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New Cagayan de Oro mayor sworn in; Moreno holds out
CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines (UPDATED) – Cagayan de Oro City Vice Mayor Cesar Ian Acenas took his oath as the new mayor shortly before 7 pm Thursday, November 12, a week after the Ombudsman dismissed...
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Baby with two heads born in Bangladesh
DACCA, Bangladesh – Doctors at a Bangladesh hospital were treating a baby girl born with two heads on Thursday, November 12, medical officials and the newborn's father said.The baby was born late...
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Twin blasts claimed by IS kill 41 in Beirut Hezbollah bastion
BEIRUT, Lebanon – Twin bomb blasts claimed by the Islamic State group killed 41 people Thursday, November 12, on a busy shopping street in a Beirut stronghold of the Shiite movement Hezbollah, the...
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Canada PM Trudeau to meet with Queen Elizabeth II
OTTAWA, Canada – Canada's new prime minister, Justin Trudeau, will make a stopover in London to meet with Queen Elizabeth II while en route to Malta for Commonwealth talks, his office said Thursday,...
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UN moves to prevent 'possible genocide' in Burundi
NEW YORK, US – The United Nations (UN) moved Thursday, November 12, to pull Burundi back from the brink of "possible genocide," adopting a resolution that called for urgent talks and laid the...
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Japan spots Chinese spy ship in new area near disputed isles
TOKYO, Japan – Japan said Friday, November 13, it was monitoring waters near islands disputed with China in the East China Sea after it spotted a naval intelligence ship from the country operating in a...
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Suu Kyi party wins historic Myanmar polls
YANGON, Myanmar (UPDATED) – Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition on Friday, November 13, won a parliamentary majority from weekend polls that will allow it to elect a president and form a government in a...
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Palace: Putin to miss APEC due to plane crash probe
MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has personally informed Philippine President Benigno Aquino III that he cannot attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)...
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Obama, 11 leaders to meet in Manila on TPP – reports
MANILA, Philippines – US President Barack Obama and 11 other world leaders will meet in Manila on Wednesday, November 18, to discuss a landmark deal creating the world’s largest free trade area,...
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10 Cambodians arrested over illegal logging patrol murders
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – Ten people, including a soldier, have been arrested over the murders of a forest ranger and a policeman who were investigating illegal logging in Cambodia, officials said on...
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Erap gives Lumad until 6pm to disperse for APEC
MANILA, Philippines – Manila Mayor Joseph Ejercito Estrada gave the Lumad who are staging a demonstration at Liwasang Bonifacio until 6 pm Friday, November 13, to disperse and give way to the...
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