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		<title>Manila Gets Set for the Downturn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Carlos H. Conde   
Asia Sentinel
Friday, 21 November 2008
Often described as the sick man of Asia, the Philippines appears to be walking an economic tightrope again. Its currency has fallen sharply against the US dollar from a high of P44:US$1 to P50:US$1, a fall of 13.6 percent since August. Three of the pillars [...]]]></description>
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		<title>40 die as Philippine ferry capsizes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Carlos H. Conde
International Herald Tribune
Published: November 5, 2008
MANILA: Forty people, 11 of them children, died after a ferry capsized in the central Philippines, the Coast Guard said Wednesday, the latest in a long line of maritime tragedies.
The Philippine Coast Guard said the interisland ferry, the Don Dexter Cathlyn, overturned on Tuesday after being buffeted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The melamine stain: One sign of a worldwide problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Thomas Fuller
International Herald Tribune
Published: October 12, 2008
Carlos Conde contributed reporting from Manila, Janesara Fugal from Bangkok and Carmen Ng from Hong Kong.
BANGKOK: Is there more tainted food out there?
The far-flung recall of products contaminated with melamine - dozens of brands of infant formula in China, Cadbury chocolates in Australia, Lipton green tea in Taiwan [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://carlosconde.com/2008/10/15/the-melamine-stain-one-sign-of-a-worldwide-problem/</link>
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		<title>Asia, too, feels the pain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Keith Bradsher
The New York Times
Published: October 10, 2008
Choe Sang-Hun in Seoul, Carlos H. Conde in Manila, Thomas Fuller in Bangkok, Anand Giridharadas in Mumbai and Hilda Wang in Hong Kong also contributed reporting.
HONG KONG: Can a region like Asia - with more than $3 trillion in foreign exchange reserves, high savings rates, mostly well-capitalized [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Islamist militant held in the Philippines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Carlos H. Conde
International Herald Tribune
Published: August 31, 2008
MANILA: The authorities have taken into custody a man they contend is one of the founders of an Islamic extremist group who masterminded the bombing of a passenger ship here in 2004 that killed 116 people. It was the worst terrorist attack in Southeast Asia since the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As the MOA Unravels, What Now?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Carlos H. Conde
Philippine Human Rights Reporting Project
Now that the plan to ram through the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD) has unraveled, the administration of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is trying to sweep it under the carpet.
The agreement has been in limbo ever since the Supreme Court issued a temporary restraining order at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://carlosconde.com/2008/08/27/as-the-moa-unravels-what-now/</link>
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		<title>Fighting worsens in Philippines, displacing 300,000 on Mindanao</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Carlos H. Conde
International Herald Tribune
The New York Times
Published: August 26, 2008
MANILA: Fighting in the southern Philippines between government troops and Islamic separatists is getting worse by the day, with the number of displaced people now reaching 300,000, officials and disaster volunteers said Tuesday.
Army officials estimated that 150 rebels from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://carlosconde.com/2008/08/27/fighting-worsens-in-philippines-displacing-300000-on-mindanao/</link>
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		<title>Peace process fraught with peril for Arroyo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Carlos H. Conde
International Herald Tribune
The New York Times
Published: August 24, 2008
MANILA: Three weeks ago, the government of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was scheduled to sign a peace deal that, among other things, had promised to cede part of Mindanao, the main island in the south of the Philippines, to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://carlosconde.com/2008/08/24/rebels-pose-dilemma-for-president-arroyo/</link>
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		<title>Mindanao’s Wrecked Peace Deal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A botched agreement, domestic politics and insurgent violence threaten to renew war in the southern Philippines
By Carlos H. Conde
Asia Sentinel
21 August 2008
By many accounts, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, the separatist group in the southern Philippines, should have emerged the victor in what is now widely regarded as a fiasco involving a peace deal with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://carlosconde.com/2008/08/21/mindanao%e2%80%99s-wrecked-peace-deal/</link>
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		<title>Islamic separatists kill 28 in Philippines rampage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Carlos H. Conde
The New York Times
International Herald Tribune
Published: August 18, 2008
MANILA: Islamic separatists attacked several towns and villages Monday in the troubled southern Philippine region of Mindanao, killing at least 28 people in a rampage that, officials said, included hacking several people with machetes and spraying bullets into buses.
The attacks came as tens of [...]]]></description>
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