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International team to survey sunken Philippine oil tanker Manila - An international marine contractor is due in the Philippines this week to help deal with a sunken tanker which has caused the country's worst ever oil spill, oil company Petron said

MANILA (AFP) - President Gloria Arroyo has named a former Supreme Court justice to head a special commission to probe a spate of extrajudicial killings of journalists and leftist political activists. Former justice Jose Melo would ''lead an

The Philippines Cebu City Mayor has said he is planning to purchase Russian-made AK47 assault rifles and assign them to agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to help secure the city during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean)

MANILA, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) — Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo announced on Monday the formation of an independent commission that will investigate the spate of killings of leftist activists and journalists in the country. Arroyo made the