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Korean Air flight 631 overran the runway at Cebu Mactan International Airport during landing on Sunday, 23 October. The aircraft, an A330-300, came to rest approximately 300 meters beyond the runway. None of the 162 passengers and 11 crew members sustained serious injuries. Korean Air 631 departed Seoul at 19:20 local time (10:20 UTC) and flew south toward Cebu. At about 14:12 UTC KE631 was on final approach to Runway 22 and executed a go around, immediately attempting to land again at 14:26 UTC. After a second go around, KE631 held northeast of the airfield for approximately 30 minutes before...

President-elect Donald Trump extended an offer to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to visit the White House next year, an aide to the foreign leader says. Christopher Go, a special adviser to Duterte, says the president-elect and the Philippine leader had a 'very engaging, animated' talk today that lasted more than seven minutes. Duterte lost out on a bilateral meeting with President Barack Obama this fall after calling him a 'son of a b****'. The Philippine president has professed a kinship with Trump, whose cursing on the campaign trail raised eyebrows more than once. Duterte also ran on an anti-establishment and...

After the president of the Philippines announced a separation from the US – a statement which his government has since walked back – Russia’s ambassador to the country said Moscow is ready to provide assistance to and fully cooperate with Manila. “Formulate your wish list. What kind of assistance do you expect from Russia and we will be ready to sit down with you and discuss what can and should be done,” Russian Ambassador Igor Khovaev told GMA News on Friday. He went on to state that Russia is open to working with the Philippines in “any area, any field...

One of the most powerful storms ever recorded killed at least 10,000 people in the central Philippines province of Leyte, a senior police official said on Sunday, with coastal towns and the regional capital devastated by huge waves. Super typhoon Haiyan destroyed about 70 to 80 percent of the area in its path as it tore through the province on Friday, said chief superintendent Elmer Soria, a regional police director. Haiyan, a category 5 typhoon that churned through the Philippine archipelago in a straight line from east to west, packing wind gusts of around 275 kph (170 mph), weakened significantly...

The US navy started WW-II with leftover destroyers. The destroyers we were building towards the end of WW-II were vastly more powerful. Two or three of them in groups would amount to something like the secondary (5") battery of an Iowa class battleship. This was with radar, radar fire control, and significant AA capabilities, along with torpedoes and depth charges. In the middle of the campaign to retake the Phillipines, there occurred one of the more astonishing stories I've ever read or heard, in which three such ships basically sailed into Ormoc Bay, and essentially fired off their entire ammo...

Actor Alec Baldwin's joke about getting a Filipino mail-order bride provoked a sharp response in the Philippines, with one senator saying Monday that the "30 Rock" star faces violence if he ever visits. Baldwin, 51, who is divorced with a teenage daughter, said in a May 12 interview on "The Late Show" with David Letterman that he would love to have more children. The Emmy-winning actor quipped that he was "thinking about getting a Filipino mail-order bride at this point ... or a Russian one."

Al Qaida linked Abu Sayyaf terrorist group is making a comeback. Terrorists are like cockroaches. Just when you think you have them eradicated, a new bunch reappear. The Al Qaida linked Abu Sayyaf terrorist group is making a resurgence in the Philippines. With US assistance,the Philippine military had this terrorst organization on the ropes in recent years. The Phillippines will need assistance once again to defeat Abu Sayyaf. With President Obama wanting to scale back military operations and spending, this assistance may not materialize.

At least one person has died and six more are injured after a powerful explosion ripped through the South Wing entrance of the Phillippines’ House of Representatives. The blast occured on Tuesday evening local time, just moments after a session ended.

Zamboanga City, 21 May (AKI) - The defeat of the leader of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MNLF) Nur Misuari in the Sulu archipelago's gubernatorial race could be a setback for peace, a local expert told AdnKronos International (AKI). "If Misuari had won, we could have hoped for a respite in terms of peace and order in Sulu," Octavio Dinampo, a university professor and an expert on the Sulu conflict, told AKI on Monday. "Misuari still has a strong say among his men," added Dinampo who was also an independent observer at the May mid-term elections,. Dinampo’s comment come as...

SAN PEDRO CUTUD, Philippines - Seven devotees were nailed to crosses on Good Friday in a northern Philippine village where the rites drew thousands of tourists and spectators. ADVERTISEMENT The Lenten ritual is opposed by religious leaders in the Philippines — Southeast Asia's largest predominantly Roman Catholic nation. But it has persisted to become one of the country's most-awaited summer attractions in San Fernando City's San Pedro Cutud village. The devotees' palms and feet were attached to wooden crosses with 4-inch nails soaked in alcohol to prevent infection after a nearly mile-long walk to the mound, each carrying a wooden...

Globally, remittances make up about $230bn Money sent home by Filipinos working overseas last year totalled a record $12.8bn (£6.5bn), the Philippines' central bank has said.The remittances - a 20% rise on 2005 - account for about 10% of the country's economy, the bank added. Most of the eight million overseas workers are in the US or Middle East. According to the World Bank, the Philippines is the fifth-largest recipient of foreign remittances behind India, China, Mexico and France. It has forecast that Filipinos will send home about $14.1bn this year. Their remittances play an increasingly significant role in...

The director of the CIA praised the Philippines on Thursday for its fight against terrorists, saying the country's government and military have worked closely with the United States to decrease the threat from extremists. CIA Director Michael Hayden told lawmakers that U.S.-Philippine cooperation has "contributed greatly to strengthening the capacity of the Philippine armed forces and the Philippine security services." "In terms of what intelligence and military power can do, it's done it in this part of the global war" against terror, Hayden said at a House of Representatives Intelligence Committee hearing. On Wednesday, the Philippine military announced the death...

Philippine troops step up offensive against Abu Sayyaf Date: January 19 2007 MANILA: Philippine soldiers killed 10 Islamic rebels in fresh fighting in the south yesterday as the President, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, vowed to put down the militants "with a hand of steel". Lieutenant-Colonel Ariel Caculitan, a marine spokesman, said 10 Abu Sayyaf militants and three soldiers were killed in an hour-long gun battle on the island of Jolo, where most of the militant group has taken shelter. Two rebels were captured. About 100 US military advisers are on Jolo to provide intelligence and training to the 7000 Philippine troops...

"The Great Raid": The Year's GREAT Movie By Debbie Schlussel If you love America, "The Great Raid" is the movie for you. If you love freedom and appreciate the fight it takes to sustain it, you'll love this movie. But if you don't appreciate what it takes to protect our life as free Americans--the sacrifices our military men and women make every day, then you must see "The Great Raid." In theaters, today, "The Great Raid" is--hands down--the best movie of the year. It has drama, action, a love story, heroes and villains. And it makes you proud to be...

FILIPINOS know all about the breathtaking shoe and jewellery collections Imelda Marcos amassed during two decades as first lady, but a Manila court is making them wait before being able to watch a film she says makes a joke of her life. After complaints from Mrs Marcos’s lawyers, a judge yesterday issued a 20-day restraining order on the documentary, Imelda, which had been due for an advance media screening yesterday and general release on 7 July. "This is a good omen," an aide quoted Mrs Marcos as saying. The judge, who said the complaint had enough merit to halt the...

Philippines to Deport Two U.S. Brothers By HRVOJE HRANJSKI, Associated Press Writer MANILA, Philippines - Philippine authorities said Tuesday they were set to deport two American brothers arrested for suspected links to terrorism and for allegedly meeting charity groups believed to be al-Qaida fronts in the country. One of the men, Michael Ray Stubbs, worked as a heating and air conditioning technician at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ? a major nuclear weapons lab outside San Francisco ? for about 10 years ending in 2000. Officials said the FBI (news - web sites) was looking into whether he had access...

You have to scour the websites to find good news anywhere between the Dardanelles and Kamchatka. There are tidbits despite the PC media’s BBC-speak self-hating pessimism. Indian Prime Minister Vajpayee has won his blackmail against the Hindu revivalists; a dialogue between South Asia’s two nuclear armed powers is creeping with Sec. of State Powell barking at their heels. The Iraq museum antiquities were hidden not stolen for the most part. [Does any good news ever catch up with the headlines?] The oil is beginning to flow even if OPEC doesn’t want to talk to Iraqi oil officials. Police, water, electricity,...

23 January, 2003 The Filipino gay community has accused the Roman Catholic Church of 'fanning' the flames of homophobia after they were excluded from an international conference on the role of families in Manila. The Filipino gay community was angry at a statement made by Manila Archbishop Jaime Cardinal Sin that Christian family values were being eroded by advocates of gay marriage, as well as technology and divorce, reported Agence France-Presse. Oscar Atadero, a spokesman for Progay Philippines, said Sin's attack on homosexuality was totally uncalled for. Atadero likened Christan gays to "Jesus outside the gates" and said that in...

Dear American soldier, You don't know me, but I know who you are, and I will not forget. You are deploying from Fort Carson and Fort Hood and Fort Bliss and Fort Stewart. You hail from Middletown and Middleboro and Greenville and Redding and Thousand Oaks and Maple Tree. You are white, black, brown and yellow -- but always Americans first. You are with the 3rd Brigade Combat Team and the 10th Combat Support Hospital and the 571st Air Ambulance Medical Evacuation Company. You are with the 1st Cavalry Division and the 3rd Infantry Division and the "Iron Horse"...

<p>DAVAO, Philippines — At least 19 people were killed, including an American, Tuesday as a powerful explosion ripped through a waiting area at the Davao City International Airport in the southern Philippines.</p> <p>Three other Americans, from a Southern Baptist missionary family, were among the over 150 injured after the bomb, hidden in a backpack, exploded just outside the arrival airport terminal.</p>