When Typhoon Ketsana hit Manila this year, the crowded city's planners were stunned at the amount of rain that poured down in a short time.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

Mrs.Aquino's coffin, draped in the Philippine flag and laid over a bed of yellow flowers, was carried in a large truck Monday through a section of Manila's EDSA highway: the site of the "people power" movement she led in 1986 that overthrew the authoritarian Marcos government.

VOA: standard.2009.08.03

Two senior U.S.diplomats went to Burma last week to open the dialogue and at a Manila news conference with Philippine Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo, Clinton called the mission by Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian Affairs Kurt Campbell and his deputy Scott Marciel "very successful."

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

The highlight should be a televised re-enactment in December of Rizal's trial in Manila's Fort Santiago and his final walk from the Intramuros district to the execution site in what is now Rizal Park.

CNN: Glancing Back

Diaz's team of eight trains and shares tools and technology with others across Manila's slums as well as with locals from towns like Cebu and Visayas.

CNN: Plastic bottles light up lives

Chairs DMCI group, which has built such landmarks as the Manila Doctor's Hospital and Manila Hotel.

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