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Monday, April 11, 2005 (Philippines)
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| Flags of Asean member-countries flutter along the approach to the Marcelo Fernan Bridge to usher the start of the two-day Asean Foreign Ministers’ Retreat Sunday in Mactan. The retreat is expected to discuss the controversial issue of Myanmar’s Asean chairmanship next year. (AP photo) |
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CEBU CITY -- In the absence of government funding for pre-schools, fewer than 400 of Cebu's more than 1,000 elementary schools are offering early training to children under the public school system.
Department of Education (DepEd) 7 records show that the 369 elementary schools account for only one-third of the total 1,049 schools province-wide.
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Suspect in killing of journalist nabbed
| DAVAO CITY -- One of the suspects in the murder of journalist Marlene Garcia-Esperat was arrested by authorities in Tagum City Saturday, a day before members of a Paris-based international media freedom watchdog arrived in Tacurong City to investigate the killing. |
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Pinoys leaving Catholic Church: official
| MANILA -- A Church official has said more and more Catholic Filipinos are leaving and transferring to other religions due to their failure to evangelize the Philippines, the only Roman Catholic country in Asia. |
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4 fishers survive sea ordeal by eating clothes
| MANILA -- Four fishermen had to eat their clothes, a few squid and pieces peeled off from their fishing boat's bamboo outrigger to survive a 20-day sea ordeal in the shark-infested South China Sea before being rescued. |
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