Philippines Deploys Trucks as Transport Strike Cripples Country
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The Philippine government deployed trucks and vans to carry thousands of stranded commuters to work as bus and jeepney drivers went on strike to protest rising fuel prices, crippling Manila and other parts of the country.
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Hundreds of army and civilian engineers  have begun massive construction work in the northern  Philippines to rebuild flood-hit areas that have been cut off  from the rest of the country for weeks.
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At least 12 people were killed and about 160 injured when a train derailed in the dark and plunged down a slope in the Philippines, officials said.
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REAL, Philippines  - Helicopters delivered food to famished survivors and picked up casualties as flash floods began to recede, revealing the magnitude of a disaster triggered by back-to-back storms that left more than 650 people dead and nearly 400 missing in the northern Philippines.
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Typhoon Xangsane churned toward Vietnam  on Friday after killing 31 people in the Philippines, injuring  hundreds and leaving a trail of widespread destruction.
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The fourth major storm in as many months to tear through the Philippines has left hundreds dead or missing.
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NEW DELHI: Over three million trucks went off the Indian roads on Saturday as truckers launched their indefinite nationwide strike to protest against the imposition of a service tax on transport booking agents.
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Philippine troops are rushing food and drinking water by foot and helicopters to areas cut off by four storms that have left more than 1,300
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REAL, Philippines -- Helicopters delivered food to famished survivors and picked up casualties as the weather cleared yesterday in villages ravaged by back-to-back storms that left 640 people dead and nearly 400 missing in the northern Philippines.
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Philippine soldiers have rushed food, drinking water and other supplies by foot and helicopters to provinces cut off by four storms in two weeks that have left more than 1,300 people dead or missing.
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A ferry fire in the Philippines that killed more than 100 people was caused by a bomb, a report has concluded. President Gloria Arroyo, who initially downplayed claims of responsibility from the Abu Sayyaf
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Relief crews battling walls of mud and lashing rain to reach villages still isolated days after back-to-back storms devastated the northeastern Philippines have found 51 more bodies, taking the death toll to at least 740 people
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NEW DELHI: India&#39;s largest truckers&#39; union began a nationwide strike yesterday, disrupting shipment of goods, to protest a government plan for a service tax on transport booking agents.
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At least nine people have died and  dozens more are injured, after a trio of bomb attacks in the Philippines.
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The first foreign aid flights of food and medicines have arrived in the eastern Philippines, where officials said devastating mudslides had left at least 1,266 people dead or missing.
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PADRE BURGOS, Philippines  - Rescuers in the  Philippines smashed train windows Friday to reach 100  passengers trapped when a carriage derailed and dragged other  cars into a steep ravine, killing at least 10 people.
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REAL, Philippines  - Helicopters delivered food to famished survivors and picked up casualties as the weather cleared on Saturday in villages ravaged by back-to-back storms that left 640 people dead and nearly 400 missing in the northern Philippines.