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Magnitude-8.8 Chile quake triggers RP tsunami alert 1

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

Magnitude-8.8 Chile quake triggers RP tsunami alert 1
MARK D. MERUEÑAS, GMANews.TV

(Update 3 – Feb. 28 5:10 a.m.) State seismologists on early Sunday morning retained the Tsunami Alert Level 1 that was raised in the Philippines on Saturday afternoon after a powerful 8.8-magnitude earthquake hit south-central Chile on the [...]

Former President Corazon Aquino, people power icon, passes away

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

MANILA, Philippines – Former Philippine President Corazon Aquino, icon of people power in the Philippines and around the world, passed away at 3:18 a.m. Saturday, her son, Senator Benigno Aquino III, said. The official cause of death was cardiorespiratory arrest.
The 76-year-old Aquino was diagnosed with colon cancer in March of last year and was treated [...]