However, a recent study of coastal cities still predicted the Philippines' capital Manila would see its vulnerability to flooding double by the end of the century, due to sea-level rises.
Associated Press writers Hrvoje Hranjski and Oliver Teves in Manila, Philippines, contributed to this report.
Manila, Philippines (CNN) -- Growing up, Cecilia Lopez hoped to escape poverty by finishing school and becoming a teacher.
Associated Press writer Jim Gomez in Manila, Philippines, contributed to this report.
These were one of the many questions answered and topics discussed in a 2-days workshop entitled "Digital Archiving of Audio Visual Content in Public Service Broadcastings" recently in Metro Manila, Philippines.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) Almost four decades after he was arrested and tortured and his sister disappeared into a maze of Philippine police cells and military houses, playwright Bonifacio Ilagan is finally seeing his suffering officially recognized.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) One of the Philippines' most active volcanoes spewed huge rocks and ash after daybreak Tuesday, killing at least five climbers and trapping more than a dozen others near the crater in its first eruption in three years, officials said.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) Filipinos in Asia's largest predominantly Roman Catholic nation attended Mass on Sunday with their church awkwardly having no pope for the first time in 600 years and prayed for the smooth rise of a successor to Benedict XVI to lead an embattled institution.
Taiwan also threatened to send the Philippines' representative back to Manila if its neighbour does not respond within 72 hours.
In the Philippines, the city of Manila recently awarded contracts to run the city's water and sewerage services to two private consortia.
New branches in Manila, Philippines and the UK are expected to begin dishing out the distinctively tangy frozen yogurt in the upcoming summer months.
In March 2012, a Royal Caribbean-owned cruise ship was forced to cancel a trip after fire broke out a day after it left Manila, the Philippines, for Malaysia.
As part of a concerted diplomatic push, on November 16th Hillary Clinton, the secretary of state, was on the deck of an American warship in Manila Bay in the Philippines, to strengthen the two countries' military ties.
News of it did not reach the Philippines until an American force had taken Manila against token resistance.
As a result, the Indian firms themselves have been helping to move jobs to the Philippines by setting up call centres in Manila and other parts of the country.
Manila, capital of the Philippines, is doing the same.
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In the first significant action, on May 1st, Commodore George Dewey's small squadron destroyed an antiquated Spanish fleet in a morning's shelling in Manila Bay, in the distant Philippines.
Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in the Philippines is the largest of the overseas cemeteries, with more than 17, 000 Americans, marking World War II's Pacific Theatre.
Manila Water, a utility in the Philippines, reduced the amount of water it was losing, through wastage and illegal tapping, from 63% in 1997 to 12% in 2010 by making water affordable for the poor.
The western coastal road is mostly paved, and comfortable air-conditioned buses now come straight to Sablayan from Manila via car ferries that chug from the Philippines' main island, Luzon, to Abra de Ilog.
Chinese navy and marine surveillance ships are patrolling a reef known as Ayungin Shoal in the Philippines and Ren'ai Reef in China to stop Manila trying to "reinforce control" over disputed waters by repairing a warship stranded on the reef, Global Times quotes insiders as saying.
Kidnap-for-ransom groups are prevalent in the southern Philippines, according to the BBC's Kate McGeown in Manila.
BBC: Abducted US teenager Kevin Lunsmann 'free' in Philippines
D. in economics from the University of the Philippines and taught economics for ten years at the Ateneo de Manila University.
This is the Church of the Immaculate Conception of San Agustin in Manila, one of the oldest churches in the Philippines.
Overseas Foreign Workers or "OFWs" as they are known in the Philippines get tax breaks and a special line at Manila's International Airport.
The mall, which opened in May and already attracts 1 million shoppers on weekends, is the crowning achievement of Sy's 60-year career in retailing that began with one small shoe store in Manila and now includes 26 other malls in the Philippines, four more in China, one in Guam and a chain of department stores and supermarkets.
Philippines' leading retailer opened his biggest mall yet in May on Manila's waterfront.
Pacquiao put retirement talk to bed this week in an interview with the Manila Standard Today, one of the largest newspapers in the Philippines.
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