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| Philippines' shattered peace process -- 21 August 2008 |
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A potential peace pact between the Philippine
government and the Moro Islamic Liberation
Front fighters in the south now seems all but
impossible.
Dozens have been killed in a series of
attacks and Mindanao residents caught in the
crossfire are taking matters into their own
hands.
Al Jazeera's Marga Ortigas reports on why the
prospect of peace in the southern Philippines
seems extremely remote now.
Tags : philippines mindanao peace process marga ortigas aljazeera |
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Durée : 190 s |
| Experience Philippines! Episode 1: It Begins |
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http://www.experiencephilippines.ph
My main videos of the trip from the most
recent:
Episode 6:
http://www.happyslip.com/2008/07/22/my-other-
home/
Episode 5:
http://www.happyslip.com/2008/06/18/extremely
-hot-therapy-experience-philippines-ep-5/
Episode 4:
http://www.happyslip.com/2008/05/14/experienc
e-philippines-ep-4-boracay-to-palawan/
Episode 3:
http://www.happyslip.com/2008/04/05/experienc
e-philippines-ep-3-see-u-in-cebu/
Episode 2:
http://www.happyslip.com/2008/03/21/experienc
e-philippines-ep-2-lets-dance-in-bohol/
Episode 1:
http://www.happyslip.com/2008/03/14/experienc
e-philippines-episode-1-it-begins/
Music: Mike Rizzy
http://www.mikerizzy.com
http://www.myspace.com/mikerizzyktp
Tags : happyslip |
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Durée : 228 s |
| Philippines |
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Me and my Mom's trip to the philippines
god, my first time there and it was only 10
days.
i freaking miss it. =(
btw, the song is titled I'll Remember You by
No Secrets! =)
Tags : mabalacat pampanga philippines |
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Durée : 581 s |
| Philippines Street Children |
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For more than 15 years Dr. Chuck Frost, MTSU
professor of Social Work, has regularly
visited the Philippines. Throughout that
time he has painfully noticed street children
who are in desperate need. As he delved into
the problem he found out that millions of
children are living on the streets throughout
the world.
Tags : Phillipines street children poverty homelessness mtsu |
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Durée : 468 s |
| Typhoon Fengshen pounds Philippines |
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MANILA, Philippines - Rescuers battled huge
waves and strong winds Sunday to reach a
ferry that capsized during a deadly typhoon
in the Philippines a day earlier, but found
no immediate signs of the more than 740
passengers and crew.
Coast guard frogmen who managed to get to the
stricken ship got no response when they
rapped on the hull with metal instruments,
then had to give up for the night due to the
strong waves.
"They haven't seen anyone. They're scouring
the area. They're studying the direction of
the waves to determine where survivors may
have drifted," coast guard spokesman Lt.
Cmdr. Arman Balilo said.
Rescuers hoped to get inside on Monday,
likely with U.S. assistance requested by the
Philippine Red Cross. Typhoon Fengshen has
killed at least 137 people across the
sprawling archipelago, setting off landslides
and floods, and knocking out electricity.
So far, 10 people from the ferry are known to
have made it to land. Six bodies, including
those of a man and woman who had bound
themselves together, have washed ashore,
along with children's slippers and life
jackets.
Officials were checking reports that a large
number of survivors might have reached one
nearby island and that a life raft was
spotted off another, coast guard spokesman
Cmdr. Antonio Cuasito said.
"We can only pray that there are many
survivors so we can reduce the number of
casualties," he said.
About two dozen relatives went to the Manila
office of ferry owner Sulpicio Lines. Some
wept as they waited for news.
"I'm very worried. I need to know what
happened to my family," said Felino Farionin,
his voice cracking. His wife, son and four
in-laws were on the ferry, which was going
from Manila to Cebu.
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo talked to
officials in a teleconference aired live on
nationwide radio Sunday, scolding coast guard
officials for allowing the ferry to leave
Manila late Friday despite the bad weather.
Reynato Lanoria, a janitor on the ship,
estimated about 100 people could have
survived, "but the others were trapped
inside."
"I think they are all dead by now," he told
DZMM radio after making it to shore by
jumping in the water and reaching a life
raft.
Lanoria said he was on the top deck when a
crew member ordered people to put on life
vests around 11:30 a.m. Saturday. About 30
minutes later, the ship began tilting so fast
that elderly people and children fell on the
rain-slickened deck.
Passenger Jesus Gica also worried that many
people were trapped below when the ship
listed.
"There were many of us who jumped overboard,
but we were separated because of the big
waves," he said. "The others were also able
to board the life rafts, but it was useless
because the strong winds flipped them over."
The ferry initially ran aground a few miles
off central Sibuyan island Saturday, then
capsized, said Mayor Nanette Tansingco of
Sibuyan's San Fernando. With the upturned
ferry visible from her town, she appealed for
food, medicine and embalming fluid.
The nearly 24,000-ton ferry — with 626
passengers and 121 crew members on board —
was "dead in the water" after its engine
failed around noon Saturday, coast guard
chief Vice Adm. Wilfredo Tamayo said.
The storm stymied attempts to reach the ship
and kept aircraft at bay on Saturday before
shifting course Sunday to the northwest and
battered Manila at dawn. Major streets were
flooded, and numerous traffic lights were
out.
In the central province of Iloilo, Gov. Neil
Tupaz said 59 people drowned, with another 40
missing.
"Almost all the towns are covered by water.
It's like an ocean," Tupaz said.
Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday he was praying
for the victims of the ferry disaster,
particularly the large number of children
aboard. The Philippines is predominantly
Catholic.
The typhoon-prone Philippines was the site of
the world's worst peacetime maritime disaster
when the ferry MV Dona Paz sank in 1987,
killing more than 4,341 people.
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