Down and Out and Running Numbers in the Rougher Precincts of Manila
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Much like manâs best friend, the rough-hewn Filipino movie âThe Bet Collectorâ chases its protagonist from step to step, misery to misery, all but nipping at her heels.
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Brooklynâs Foreclosure Prevention Project has been so inundated with calls from those in trouble with mortgage bills that it had to stop taking them.
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By By Mariecar Mendoza, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Sep.
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It's dusk in the Philippine capital  Manila and the five-storey office of Advanced Contact Solutions  Inc. (ACS) is beginning to fill up.
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About 450 people were injured by stray bullets and firecrackers as the Philippines held its traditionally raucous New Year festivities, but the number was far less than in previous years, authorities said on Tuesday.
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The path to several thousand private hells is all too public. In this small town 20 miles south of the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, it leads down the open-sided corridors of the district hospital to a garden at the back, and the mortuary beyond.
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Fall 2008 collections on Seventh Avenue reveal that these are particularly trying times.
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This is a boomtown, but it is also scattered with signs of bust &#151; namely, homeless people. And the city is taking a hard line against them.
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Shops are reopening and telephone lines are back up, but reconstruction in the impoverished eastern Philippines province of Albay after deadly mudflows could take years, officials say.
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When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping.
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By Anthony Deutsch Associated Press  JAKARTA, Indonesia -- In a low-lying riverside district of the capital, dead chickens floated in the same filthy floodwaters that women used to bathe children and wash clothes.
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PHILIPPINES: The tides of mud carved a random trail of destruction through Philippine towns, robbing already impoverished residents of children, houses and hope.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - It's a daily grind for the thousands of junkies living in the city's eastside slum.
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The tides of mud carved a random trail of destruction through Philippine towns, robbing already impoverished residents of children, houses and hope.
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Streeters are getting a little less than they did in the past.
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Selling sex on the streets of this gambling capital is a dangerous pursuit: Streetwalkers have been strangled, smothered, slashed and set ablaze.
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Filipinos send on average 12 to 15 text messages a day--making the Philippines the text-messaging capital of the world.