Mass swamp wedding marks Valentine's Day in Philippines
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Standing ankle-deep in swamp mud, couples have wed in an unusual Valentines Day' ceremony on this western Philippine island, that marked their commitment to the environment.
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Kusol Wetchakul offers prayers for the soul of his sister Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2004, at dawn along the beach near Khao Lak, Thailand.
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Valentines Day in South Korea means  chocolates, romantic dinners and a high-tech mobile phone  device that can secretly check the passion in the voice of a  lover.
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Tens of thousands flocked to a religious  rally in the Philippine capital's main park on Sunday in a show  of defiance against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and her  supporters in the lower house of Congress.
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DARAGA, Philippines  - Distraught survivors searched piles of bodies for the faces of their loved ones in the central Philippines on Saturday after landslides triggered by Typhoon Durian left hundreds dead.
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Massive and widespread flooding and landslides have left around 800,000 people in need of help and more than1,000 people dead or missing since the most recent of a series of typhoons hit the Philippines.
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Australians seeking love on Valentine's Day speed-dated in deckchairs on Bondi Beach, while Japanese trekked through snow in search of romance and Filipinos sang syrupy ballards.
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MARAGUNDON, Philippines -- A powerful rainstorm triggered landslides and flash floods that killed nearly 340 people in the eastern Philippines, officials said yesterday, and rescuers raced to save those stranded in three coastal towns before a typhoon strikes the hard-hit region.
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Love was in the air at several Dhaka universities on Wednesday as students held concerts and cuddled at rare events to celebrate Valentine's Day in majority Muslim Bangladesh.
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REAL, Philippines  - Flood waters receded in the  Philippines on Friday in the wake of a typhoon that killed at  least 35 people, but thousands more remained cut off from help,  hungry and at risk of disease after a week of severe flooding.
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The Philippines Saturday expressed&quot;deepest sympathy&quot; to the families of the dead in the Russian school siege on Friday, in which 322 people were killed when Russian troops stormed
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Bandar Seri Begawan - Bruneiâs Royal Wedding between His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Haji Al-Mutahdee Billah and Yang Mulia Dayangku Sarah binti Pengiran Salleh Ab Rahaman has attracted some 170 foreign journalists to the Sultanate.
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Robert and Gayleen were married at 4 p.m. Dec. 24, 1964. "It was such a pretty day for a wedding," Gayleen said.
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The wedding of Brunei's crown prince is set to become Asia's most lavish ceremony in years.
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Victims of mudslides in the Philippines are buried in a mass grave, in an effort to prevent disease.
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_ Royalty and dignitaries from around the world filled the palace Thursday for the marriage of Brunei&#39;s crown prince to a 17-year-old half-Swiss commoner in what was likely to be Asia&#39;s wedding of the year.
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Editor&#39;s Note: Published on page A1 of the Dec. 30, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. IVY CATHERINE Tomenio, along with her Japanese husband and their three young children, left their