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May 4, 2006
Topics world, book, children, philippines, afp, history, birth, united, health, california, help, women and city
Roughly 3,738 mothers on Thursday claimed to make history in the Guinness Book of World Records for simultaneous mass breastfeeding in at least one minute, breaking the previous world record of 1,135 set by the City of Berkeley Women Infants Children Program in California on August 3, 2002, reports AFP. Manila's local authority organized the event with the help of United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), aiming to create awareness among public about the benefits of breastfeeding.
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April 14, 2006
Topics icons, philippines, buildings, easter, jesus, newspapers, bible, mary, cars, church, news and police
Shaveta Bansal - All Headline News ContributorManila police officers acted as the 12 apostles in a series of Masses and on Easter Sunday, the northern town of Minalin will explode a life-size effigy of biblical traitor Judas.
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March 4, 2006
A Dutch airline says no piece of luggage can be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. KLM has been fined $238,000 by a court in the Philippines for losing a passenger's bag - a KLM record. The incident occurred eight years ago when the passenger was going from Manila to Kazakhstan to give a lecture at a World Health Organization conference. He wore jeans, a T-shirt and sneakers at the lecture because his luggage was lost, and he claims that damaged his reputation.
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October 21, 2005
A mix-up by local immigration authorities in County Down in Northern Ireland has left a family separated for three weeks. Irene Malcolmson, a Philippine native who has been living in the UK with her British husband, was refused to enter the UK after she visited her native country to see her sick father. Authorities claimed that Malcolmson was entering the country as an illegal immigrant.
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June 17, 2005
A new ringtone invades cellphones all across the Philippines: the allegedly wiretapped voice of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's comments on vote-rigging. A voice resembling that of Arroyo is heard talking to an election official requesting assurance of a one-million-vote margin over her fiercest opponent during the May 2004 election.
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