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Many groups called on the U.S. to assist in the clean up of the former U.S. bases in central Philippines, adding that they have caused the death of thousands of residents in the area.

Northern Philippines' Cordillera Autonomous Region (CAR) is gearing up for the expected influx of tourists next year for the Visit Philippines 2003 by improving security for foreign and local visitors, officials in the mountain region said.

A coalition of Filipino and American environmental groups has filed a case against the U.S. Defence Department to compel Washington to assess the level of toxic and hazardous waste found at the two former U.S. military bases in central Luzon.

A judge of a lower court in suburban Quezon City acquitted a Catholic priest from northern Luzon of rape charges, because of the inconsistent testimony of his accuser, a teenage girl, who filed the case four years ago.

Blast destroys Marcos bust in Tuba

The family of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos has paid P0.5 million ($9,433) towards unsettled electric bills for power consumption in a mansion in northern Luzon.

The Philippines National Police on Thursday arrested a dismissed soldier and four of his companions in connection with the abduction of a German Embassy employee in Manila, and her Brazilian husband.

Two miners were buried alive in an underground accident at the Philex Mining Corporation in Mountain Province, northern Luzon, recently, a belated report said.

Members of the communist New People's Army (NPA), the military arm of the 33-year-old Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), will be treated like common criminals and will not be given special treatment accorded to rebels, a senior official said.

One soldier and 15 communists were injured during an hour-and-a-half clash on Thursday, after patrolling soldiers discovered an encampment of the communist New People's Army (NPA) in a remote village in Ilocos Norte, northern Luzon, a belated military report said.

More than one million Filipino children examined by the National Kidney Transplant Institute (NKTI), showed urine results with a high probability of kidney disease in future.

Congresswoman Imee Marcos confirmed that action film star Fernando Poe Jr is the opposition's presidential candidate the 2004 elections.