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(UPDATE) One of the 25 anti-mining hunger strikers camped outside the Department of Environment and Natural Resources has been rushed to a hospital in Quezon City, organizers said Saturday night.
23:17:10 2009-11-21
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Some 25 hunger strikers, most of them members of the Mangyan tribe, vowed on Thursday to continue their protest in front of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) central office in Quezon City to press for the cancellation of a big mining project on Mindoro island.
04:58:55 2009-11-20
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(UPDATE) Mindoro residents have decided not to lift their hunger strike even after the Department of Environment and Nature Resources (DENR) suspended for 90 days the controversial environmental compliance certificate (ECC) for large-scale mining in a watershed and ancestral domain area.
20:09:50 2009-11-19
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(UPDATE) Barely a week after National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales was appointed acting defense secretary, protesters massed the gates of the national military headquarters in Quezon City.
17:05:36 2009-11-19
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The Pasay City police has said it will investigate its own men for allegedly firing at residents of a Muslim community, whose shanties were demolished Wednesday.
15:52:53 2009-11-19
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The 25 hunger strikers from Mindoro are not going home just yet.
20:53:35 2009-11-18
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(UPDATE) Twenty five Mindoreños, mostly members of the indigenous Mangyan community, on Tuesday launched a hunger strike to call for the immediate revocation of a mining clearance issued by Environment Secretary Lito Atienza to a Norwegian nickel mine on Mindoro island.
21:08:42 2009-11-17
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Residents in the village of Maa here are calling for a stop to the construction of an upscale subdivision at a nearby ridge, saying it might lead to environmental destruction.
17:57:27 2009-11-17
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Did US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton succeed in changing negative views about the United States during her two-day visit to Manila last week?
17:18:38 2009-11-17
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BEIJING—China has detained several dissidents and campaigners ahead of US President Barack Obama's much-anticipated first visit to the country, their relatives and close contacts told Agence France-Presse Saturday.
17:24:50 2009-11-14
