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Jumbo jet oxygen tank blast would be a first: officials |
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Tuesday, 29 July 2008 14:54 |
 SYDNEY - An onboard oxygen bottle has never before exploded on a passenger jet in mid-air, airline and air safety officials said Monday, as investigators probed the cause of a huge hole in a Qantas jumbo.
The Australian carrier is carrying out urgent inspections of oxygen bottles on its entire fleet of Boeing 747s after the fuselage of a 747-400 was ripped open, forcing an emergency landing Friday in Manila.
"Boeing advises that no, they have not had one of their aircraft with an oxygen tank disintegrating," Qantas chief engineer David Cox told reporters.
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Three South Koreans killed in northern Philippine city |
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Tuesday, 29 July 2008 14:12 |
Three South Koreans, including a 10-year-old girl, were killed by suspected robbers inside their residence in a northern Philippine city, a police report said Tuesday.
Police said the bodies of the victims - Chang Suk-hi, 54, her 35-year-old daughter and her 10-year-old granddaughter - were discovered Sunday in their house in Olongapo City, 90 kilometres north-west of Manila.
All three women suffered stab wounds in the neck and different parts of their bodies.
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Eleven dead, 27 injured in Philippine bus crash |
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Tuesday, 29 July 2008 14:07 |
Eleven people were killed and 27 injured when two passenger buses collided along a highway in the eastern Philippines, police said.
The pre-dawn accident occurred in Pamplona town in Camarines Sur province, 255km south-east of Manila.
Police said the buses were traveling in opposite directions along Maharlika Highway when one of them went into the opposite lane, causing the crash.
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Ces Drilon's guide says Isnajis not behind kidnap |
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Monday, 14 July 2008 16:00 |
Former kidnap victims Ces Oreña-Drilon and Mindanao State University (MSU) professor Octavio Dinampo found themselves at the opposite sides of the table during the Department of Justice's (DOJ) preliminary hearing of their kidnap case, after Dinampo stood by his statement that Indanan, Sulu mayor Alvarez Isnaji and his son Haider were not involved in the crime.
Dinampo, who recently arrived in the country after coming from Uganda, pleaded emotionally to Drilon to "tell the truth" because she may have been pressured to pinning the Isnajis in the kidnapping.
"I just would like her to contemplate for a while. Of course I know pressures are pressures, that, to be fair to everybody I think she must stand," Dinampo said.
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Esperon sees signing of ancestral domain agreement within the month |
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Monday, 14 July 2008 03:13 |
 LAMITAN CITY, Basilan, Philippines — The government’s presidential peace adviser predicts that the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the government will sign the ancestral domain agreement within the month.
Secretary Hermogenes Esperon, presidential peace adviser, told BusinessWorld on Thursday that the government already sent its latest proposal on the ancestral domain agreement draft to the Malaysian facilitator.
"Maybe within July," he said when asked if the signing and resumption of the talks will be held before the Aug. 31 expiration date of the International Monitoring Team.
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