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Residents walk past a wall covered with a tarpaulin poster of the ongoing 45th Annual Board of Governors meeting of the Asian Development Bank at suburban Pasay city south of Manila, Philippines, Thursday May 3, 2012. Delegates attending the international conference of the ADB in the Philippines capital may not see what they came to discuss: abject poverty. The makeshift, temporary wall on both sides of the bridge from the airport to downtown Manila, hides a sprawling slum along a garbage-strewn creek in the background. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Philippines erects wall to obscure view of slums

Last updated Thursday, May 3, 2012 - 11:47am

MANILA, Philippines -- Delegates attending an international conference in the Philippines capital may not see what they came to discuss: abject poverty.

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In this photo released by the Office of the Vice-President in Manila, residents check their damaged house at Guihulngan, Negros Oriental province in central Philippines Tuesday Feb. 7, 2012, a day after a magnitude 6.9 earthquake hit the province and at least four other central provinces killing at least 15 people and damaging homes and infrastructures. Rescuers dug with picks and shovels trying to reach dozens of people trapped under houses collapsed by the strong earthquake Monday that shook central Philippines and set off landslide. (AP Photo/Office of the Vice-President)

Rescuers continue search for missing in deadly Phillipines quake

Girlie Linao Deutsche Presse-Agentur

Last updated Tuesday, February 7, 2012 - 2:29pm

MANILA, Philippines -- Rescuers dug through debris and mud in the central Philippines Tuesday in search of nearly 100 missing a day after a 6.9-magnitude earthquake triggered landslides, collapsed houses and killed at least 48 people.

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Death toll in Philippine floods rises to 436

Oliver Teves The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, December 17, 2011 - 10:00am

MANILA, Philippines -- Pounding rain from a tropical storm swelled rivers and sent walls of water crushing into two southern Philippine cities in the thick of night, killing at least 436 people, many caught in their beds, officials said Saturday.

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Residents recover belongings after powerful Typhoon Nesat wiped out most of the homes near the bay along a coastal village in Navotas, north of Manila, Philippines on Wednesday Sept. 28, 2011. Emergency services and residents in the Philippine capital cleaned up and restored electricity Wednesday after the powerful typhoon unleashed floodwaters and fierce wind that killed at least 20 people and sent huge waves crashing over seawalls. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Philippines repairs after typhoon kills 21

Hrvoje Hranjski, Jim Gomez The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 9:55am

MANILA, Philippines — Forecasters sounded alarms over a new storm headed for the Philippines Wednesday, even as workers repaired seawalls demolished by a typhoon that killed at least 21 people and left scores stranded in swamped communities.

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(AARON FAVILA/The Associated Press) Filipinos carry their bicycles along Manila’s damaged bayside park as strong currents hit the area because of Typhoon Nesat when it landed in the Philippines on Tuesday Sept. 27, 2011. The powerful typhoon slammed ashore the northern Philippines Tuesday, unleashing floods, cutting power and halting work in the capital, Manila, where residents waded in waist-deep waters and strong winds toppled trees.

Pounding typhoon rains flood Philippine capital

Hrvoje Hranjski, Jim Gomez The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 9:35am

MANILA, Philippines — Manila residents waded through waist-deep floodwaters and dodged flying debris Tuesday as a powerful typhoon struck the Philippines, killing at least 16 people and sending waves as tall as palm trees crashing over seawalls.

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