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Passengers wait for information about their flights at terminal 3 of Ninoy International Airport in Pasay, Metro Manila, on Jan 1, 2023.
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Manila airport scrambles to restore normalcy

Rescue workers helps a resident affected by floods, in Plaridel, Philippines, on Dec 26, 2022.
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Philippine death toll from Christmas floods rises to 13

Rescuers evacuating a child from a flooded area in Ozamiz City, Misamis Occidental, on Dec 25, 2022.
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Philippines floods force tens of thousands to flee homes

In this file photo taken on Aug 26, 2022, people watch a cockfighting match at the San Pedro Coliseum in Laguna province in the Philippines.
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Ex-Philippine police charged in cockfight kidnappings

    Ms Maricel Abawag and her son rest in their pushcart 'home' next to a residential condominium building in Quezon City.
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    Street life: Manila's homeless find shelter in pushcarts

    Prison inmates carry a coffin during a mass burial of 70 unclaimed bodies of prisoners at New Bilibid Prison Cemetery in Muntinlupa, metro Manila on Dec 2, 2022.
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    Philippines' largest prison holds mass burial for 70 inmates

    A large pit near the official quarters of the Philippines' prisons chief Gerald Bantag in suburban Manila.
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    Just what is this pit in Philippine prisons chief's quarters?

    More than 6,200 people died in the Philippines' war on drugs under former president Rodrigo Duterte.
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    Philippine police officer jailed in rare Duterte drug war conviction

    Prison inmates in a compound chapel as police conduct a drug search operation in the cells in Manila on Oct 21, 2022.
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    Killings in Philippine anti-drug operations will be minimised

    Australian Peter Scully (right) and three of his co-accused were charged with offences including trafficking, child pornography, child abuse and rape.
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    29 years' jail for Australian in Philippine child sex abuse case