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Monday, August 21, 2006 (Philippines)
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| Activists shout slogans in Makati as they gather in front of the statue of former senator Benigno Aquino Jr., whose assassination on Aug. 21, 1983 sparked the “people power” uprising that ended the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos. (AP photo) |
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LA PAZ -- A team using robotic submarine equipment plans to inspect a sunken tanker that has leaked oil and wreaked environmental havoc across fishing villages and mangrove swamps in a central province, the coast guard said Sunday.
The Luxembourg-based insurer of the sunken Solar 1 has pledged to ship the equipment from Singapore in a few days after it appoints a salvage company that will undertake the deep-sea inspection and possibly the retrieval of the tanker, Coast Guard Captain Luis Tuason said.
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Lawmaker 'risks' libel over secret account claim
| MANILA -- Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez Sr. said Sunday that an opposition legislator who accused President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her spouse of keeping a secret multimillion-dollar account in a German bank may be liable for libel. |
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Legislator offers to take lie test
| CEBU CITY -- To disprove a lawyer's allegation that he handed money to suspected shabu lab operator Hung Chin Chang last month, Rep. Antonio Cuenco (Cebu City, south district) is willing to undergo a polygraph test. |
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2 kids abducted by yaya, rescued
| DAVAO CITY -- Police rescued the two minors who were abducted by their former nanny last week and brought to a far-flung barangay in Maragusan, Compostela Valley. |
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