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The Philippine government aims to approve contracts to explore and develop the country's massive geothermal energy resources, which could attract more than $2.5 billion in private investment, an official said.

A powerful typhoon slammed into the northeastern Philippines on Saturday, killing four people, tearing roofs off houses and uprooting trees, but damage and flooding was much less than expected.

Tropical Storm Marinae is heading toward central Vietnam after lashing the central Philippines, where authorities say it killed at least 14 people.

Gunmen opened fire on a commuter bus in the restive southern Philippines, killing two and wounding eight passengers, authorities said on Thursday.

AGENTS of the National Bureau of Investigation and the Philippine National Police on Thursday night ended the checkered career of notorious robber Alvin Flores and three of his men in a gunbattle in Cebu.

The end for the heavily-armed suspects known for posing as cops came at 8 p.m. Thursday when operatives of the NBI led by Ruel Lasala and the Directorate for Intelligence under Director Eugene Martin raided the their hideout at the Tripina Ceneca Compound in Barangay Staca, Compostela, Cebu.

The Philippines has sent hundreds of armed policemen to the southern region of Mindanao to force the release of a kidnapped Irish priest after rejecting an offer of help from Muslim rebels, officials said on Wednesday.

At least 11 people are dead and six missing after Typhoon Mirinae roared across Manila and southern Luzon island before weakening into a storm and moving west of the Philippines toward the South China Sea.

Louisiana Association of Educators officials said Monday they will meet with the Avoyelles Parish School District's Filipino teachers who have joined hundreds of other Louisiana educators denouncing labor contract violations by their recruiter.

I was asked to pay $11,200 for a placement fee, and some of it I had to borrow from a company," said Amy F. Bihag, one of 20 Filipino teachers working for Avoyelles Parish schools. As she spoke, she broke into tears when referring to payments that have left her in deep in debt.

The firms have been used by some Louisiana school districts, including in Avoyelles, Caddo and East Baton Rouge parishes, to fill teacher positions.

Girls in gangs become more vulnerable when families can ill afford to feed them, increasing risk of being prostituted.

Thirty-nine fishermen on board 14 boats returned safely ashore hours after authorities declared they were missing, local media reported Monday.

Google has been implicated in copyright issues for more than four years, digitizing millions of books without permission.

However, Ms. Courtney Hohne, a Google spokeswoman said, “We take the view, backed up by international copyright law, that no copyright is violated in this process since the amount of text displayed is so small and it’s purely for information.”

“In fact, it’s comparable to a quotation from a book in a review or our Web search results, both of which are perfectly legal,” she added.

In October, Google offered to pay each U.S. based author at least $60 per book scanned, and 63 percent of future sales revenue. The company also said that it was “actively encouraging authors, publishers, and rights-holders around the world to register for the settlement”.

Philippine government Sunday rejected the kidnappers' demand to pay 2 million U.S. dollars in exchange of the freedom of an elderly Irish priest being abducted in the country's troubled south for three weeks.

A fire swept through a residential building as people slept in a slum community in the central Philippines on Monday, killing 16 residents including women and children.

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A 27-year-old pedicab driver was killed while his cousin was seriously wounded when an unidentified armed man shot them in Binondo, Manila last Friday evening, police said Saturday.

Angelo Corpin, a resident of Gate 54 Area C, Parola compound, Binondo, Manila, was declared dead on arrival at a hospital from multiple gunshot wounds. Jet Lee Corpin, 16, is now being treated at the Philippine Orthopedic Hospital for a single bullet wound on his right arm.

The shooting incident took place at around 7 p.m., Friday near the Iglesia ni Cristo chapel at Gate 54, Parola compound, Binondo, Manila, according to Police Officer 2 Jay Santos of the Manila Police District – Homicide section.

The victims were watching television at a mini store near their house when the unidentified armed suspect passed by and shot at them using a still undetermined fire arm, Santos said. (Leonard D. Postrado)

BALTIMORE City police are looking for a Filipino who had accompanied a Filipino couple who had owned a notorious bar in connection with the acquisition of four handguns whose bullets can go through body armor.

The Investigative Voice said that a police report confirmed that police raided the Cheerleaders Bar in Fells Point last August looking for four FN 5.7 millimeter guns, The guns had disappeared since they were purchased by bar owner Vincent Javellana, and his wife Mary Joyce.

Police initially questioned Javellana but he claimed he did not have the handguns. Authorities later learned of a shipment from Baltimore to the Philippines and Javellana later said the guns were in the shipment and that he had not filed the proper paperwork to export firearms.

“In just under 16 months this bar has been before our board four separate times for numerous violations,” Board Chairman Stephan Fogleman said, noting the $4,700 in fines levied against the bar by the board.

Captors of a 79-year old Irish missionary kidnapped in the southern Philippines have released a video in which the priest says his abductors are demanding $2 million to release him.

Local residents make their way through floodwaters in Taytay township, Rizal province east of... Local residents make their way through floodwaters in Taytay township, Rizal province east of Manila, Philippines, Saturday, Oct.

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MANILA, Philippines—As many as 1.4 million Filipino adults (aged 20 and above) acquired diabetes in the last five years mainly because of unhealthy diets and sedentary lifestyles, according to data compiled by anti-diabetes advocates.

The data, presented by the International Diabetes Federation in their Diabetes Atlas for 2009, put the number of Filipino adults with Type 2 or acquired diabetes at 3.4 million out of a 51-million adult population, with 4.9 million more on the brink of developing diabetes.

Kidney disease is the top complication of diabetes; other complications are heart attack, stroke, nerve disease that can lead to amputation of lower limbs and eye disease.

Warning signs include frequent urination, excessive thirst, increased hunger, weight loss, tiredness, lack of interest and concentration, vomiting and stomach pain (which is often mistaken for flu), a tingling sensation or numbness in the hands or feet. Other signs include blurred vision, frequent infections and slow-healing wounds.

Dr. Tommy Ty Willing, president and chairman of Diabetes Philippines said type 2 diabetes can be prevented by maintaining healthy weight and being physically active. Regular walking for at least 30 minutes per day has been shown to reduce the risk of Type 2 diabetes by 35 to 40 per cent.