Philippine media outlets say that a dismissed policeman has taken hostage a bus loaded with passengers in the capital Manila, AP said.

菲律宾媒体透露，挟持这辆满载乘客大巴的是一名被撤职警察。

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Manila, Philippines (CNN) — Authorities botched rescue efforts during a deadly hostage situation on a tourist bus, the Philippine National Police said in a statement Tuesday.

菲律宾马尼拉(CNN讯)——周二，菲律宾国家警察当局在一份声明中称，在日前的旅游大巴遭劫持事件中，警方的失误最终造成了不可挽回的后果。

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A similar farce is playing out in the Philippine capital, Manila, where a planned new air terminal has been delayed by four years because of contract rows.

同样的闹剧也在菲律宾首都马尼拉上演。由于合同条款的问题，建立新的候机楼的计划已经被延迟了4年之久。

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In the next few weeks, American forces occupied Puerto Rico and the Philippine capital of Manila.

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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

Similar to the recent difficulty of identifying the seven billionth human born on earth (that prize went to Danica May Camacho, a girl born in the Philippine capital of Manila, symbolically chosen by the UN to mark the global population milestone), it is understandable if Apple used location as an important factor in calculating their tiebreaks.

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In Manila, Philippine President Benigno Aquino confirmed that the observers were safe and that the negotiations about their release were ongoing.

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Away from the opera bouffe of Manila, Philippine politics looks less like liberal democracy than elective feudalism, where dominant local clans hold sway.

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