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[Title] => Royalty Reaching Out
[Summary] => With his gorgeous chiseled features and piercing eyes, framed by flowing blonde locks all carried off with regal bearing, Prince Andrea Casiraghi of Monaco certainly does not disappoint any girl who has ever dreamt of a Prince Charming.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-18 00:00:00
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[Title] => Asbestosis ‘victims’ to file damage suit
[Summary] => A non-government organization (NGO) is set to seek punitive damages from 24 American companies which used to operate at the former Subic naval base for allegedly providing hazardous workplaces to their Filipino workers who are now suffering from cancer.
The Alliance for Bases Clean-up International (ABC Inc.) said it would demand about $100,000 each for the former Subic workers who are now reportedly suffering from early stages of asbestosis to malignant mesothelioma or cancer.
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-23 00:00:00
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[AuthorID] => 1096905
[AuthorName] => Evelyn Macairan
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[ArticleID] => 274098
[Title] => Toxic waste ‘victims’ hold Mass for Prince Rainier
[Summary] => OLONGAPO CITY — Alleged victims of toxic wastes at the former US military bases in Clark and Subic gathered here yesterday for a Mass for Prince Rainier of Monaco, who died last April 6 and was laid to rest also yesterday.
Myla Baldonado, executive director of the People’s Task Force for Bases Clean-up, said the Misang Bayan held at the San Lorenzo Ruiz chapel was meant to show support for the family of Prince Rainier, especially his daughter, Princess Caroline.
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-16 00:00:00
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[Title] => Discuss toxic waste with Bush, GMA urged
[Summary] => Senate Majority Leader Loren Legarda urged President Arroyo yesterday to discuss with US President George W. Bush the "urgent need" to remove lethal toxic wastes left behind by the American military in Subic and Clark.
"The removal of the environmental nightmare at Clark and Subic should be on top of the agenda of President Bush and President Arroyo. It is a matter of utmost urgency and importance," she said.
[DatePublished] => 2003-10-13 00:00:00
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[Title] => US military yet to reply to toxic waste lawsuit
[Summary] => US Navy and Air Force authorities have asked a US court to give it another month to reply to a lawsuit filed by American pro bono lawyers on behalf of 36 residents near the former military bases in Clark and Subic.
The suit seeks to compel the US military to identify toxic wastes it supposedly left behind in its former Philippine facilities.
"If the extension is granted, we expect a ruling on the suit by the first week of April," said lawyer-activist Cora Fabros, who helped put up the case.
[DatePublished] => 2003-03-14 00:00:00
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[AuthorID] => 1708612
[AuthorName] => Romel Bagares
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[Title] => US group offers to clean up toxic wastes for free
[Summary] => CLARK FIELD, Pampanga — Newly installed Clark Development Corp. (CDC) president and chief executive officer Emmanuel Angeles has announced that a United States-based firm is set to clean up, for free, toxic wastes left behind by the US Air Force in this former military base.
Angeles said leaders of the US group visited the Clark Special Economic Zone (CSEZ) recently to present its clean-up proposal, and are expected to be back this month.
[DatePublished] => 2001-03-26 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Ding Cervantes
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[Title] => Angeles City allots funds for toxic waste study
[Summary] => ANGELES CITY â€â€Ã‚ Long dogged by the issue of toxic wastes allegedly left behind by the American military at Clark Field, the city government finally acknowledged yesterday the dangers posed by the hazardous substances to local residents.
Mayor Carmelo Lazatin signed an agreement with the People’s Task Force on Bases Clean-up (PTFBC), allocating P511,511 in city funds for a three-month study to determine the extent of the toxic wastes’ harmful effects on the health of residents of two barangays, Sapang Bato and Margot.
[DatePublished] => 2000-10-09 00:00:00
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[Title] => Another Clark toxic waste 'victim' dies; more kids ill
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MABALACAT, Pampanga - The remaining skepticism on whether toxic wastes at Clark
Field are responsible for unusual illnesses among local folk seems to be
vanishing as another 10-year-old girl died of leukemia here recently.
The death of Kathleen Lavaria in Barangay Dolores here last May 10 has
heightened fears among 20,000 lahar-displaced families who had stayed at an
evacuation center at the former US Clark Air Force Base here after the 1991
eruption of Mt.
[DatePublished] => 2000-05-22 00:00:00
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[Title] => Toxic wastes' death toll reaches 101, group claims
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CLARK FIELD, Pampanga -- When 10-year-old Iris Pangan fell on her knees in her
Grade 3 classroom in Barangay Tabun here seven years ago, she was never to be
the same again.
In their small home at the Mawaque resettlement for lahar victims, her jobless
parents observed yesterday the traditional ika-siyam or ninth day of her death
last May 2.
[DatePublished] => 2000-05-11 00:00:00
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[Title] => 6-year-old toxic waste 'warrior' laid to rest
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MABALACAT, Pampanga - "She is our toxic (waste) warrior, a testimony to
Americans' inhumanity to Filipinos."
Sen. Sergio Osmeña III thus paid tribute to six-year-old Crizel Jane
Valencia who was laid to rest at a cemetery at the Madapdap resettlement here
yesterday afternoon.
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