XINING, China – China poured rescue crews and equipment into a mountainous Tibetan region Thursday in a bid to find survivors more than a day after strong earthquakes killed more than 600 people and injured thousands.

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MANILA, Dec. 5 — A lawmaker on Saturday said the decision of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to declare martial law in Maguindanao province due to the mass killing of close to 60 people, including at least two dozen journalists, was not a knee-jerking reaction.

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It’s a sickening time to be a journalist in the Philippines.

At least 30 local reporters were among 57 people killed last week after being abducted and shot in the volatile south of the country, allegedly by the private army of a powerful Muslim clan that rules Maguindanao province.

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Flood rose as much as 10 feet in some areas in Cainta Rizal and Laguna and Markina with the ravaging floods of Typhoon Ondoy. It was by far the highest flood that ever swept homes all around Metro Manila and surrounding Provinces.