Three buried alive

Three people, including two children, died while another went missing following a landslide in Samboan, Cebu on Sunday night.

Senior Police Officer 1 Dominador Perolino, acting town police chief, identified the young fatalities as Nathaniel and Errol, both surnamed Cañete. The third fataility was identified as Florence Galla.

Perolino said the three died after four homes in Barangay Poblacion were buried by a landslide Sunday night.

The police officer said the landslide occurred due to heavy rains in Cebu province the whole Sunday.

A certain Edwin Galla Jr. remained missing while six occupants of the buried houses have been brought to Malabuyoc District Hospital for treatment.

Meanwhile, a total of 134 families were evacuated from three flooded villages in Cagayan de Oro City on Sunday.

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Intel Core 2 eXtreme QX9650 Processor

n this review we'll examine the latest signficant addition to Intel's processor series - the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 processor based on the Yorkfield core. The core belongs to a new family designed for mobile, desktop and server processors generally codenamed Penryn. Frankly speaking, the majority of users have been most anticipating the updated dual-core solutions on Wolfdale core, since quad-core products interest a considerably smaller percent of potential buyers. But this time Intel did it "AMD style", having began to promote a new processor series with a product for enthusiasts and servers.

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Four whale sharks

DAGUPAN CITY - Residents of Bonuan Binloc were surprised to see four whale sharks along the coast of the beach this Tuesday around seven o'clock in the morning.

According to the residents, two were seen in the morning and around three in the afternoon, two more were noticed.

Elmer Saranglao, worker of a nearest resort, said that some fishermen were planning already to get the whale sharks and bring the meat to the market. Thios prompted him to call the attention of officials on the situation.

Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) said that the whale sharks were having their feeding season here.

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passengers missing

A Philippine ferry with more than 700 people on board capsized during a typhoon and most are missing, officials said on Sunday.

Rescuers were trying to reach the scene where the MV Princess of Stars sank near Sibuyan island in the centre of the country but churning waves from Typhoon Fengshen made the crossing hazardous.

"The ship is upside down. We are waiting for rescuers but there are none so far. Our pump boats are all broken," Ricardo Aligno, a town councilor from the coastal village of San Fernando, told local radio.

The coast guard expected one of its ships to arrive in the area by early afternoon. The ferry sank about three kilometers from shore.

Local mayor Nanette Tansingco told radio that three survivors had been found.

But at least four others aboard are known to have died.

The bodies of two women and some children's' slippers were washed ashore. Before dawn on Sunday, some villagers heard warning sirens from the ship, which had 626 passengers and 121 crew on board.

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800 passengers stranded

Close to 800 passengers are stranded in ports of Bicol Friday as typhoon Frank (international codename Fengshen) battered the region and parts of the Visayas, the National Disaster Coordinating Council said.

Initial NDCC data showed that a total of 794 people were stranded in various ports in Bicol as public storm warning signal No. 3 was hoisted over some parts of the region.

NDCC said 153 are stranded in Matnog port while 30 others failed to sail home from Pilar in Sorsogon province. There were 244 people stranded in Tabaco City, Albay; 10 in Virac, Catanduanes; and 357 in Masbate province.

As of 11 a.m., weather bureau PAGASA said signal No. 3 has been raised in the provinces of Masbate, Sorsogon, Albay and Catanduanes in Luzon as well as in Samar provinces, Leyte and Biliran Island in the Visayas.

Signal No. 2 was hoisted over Camarines Sur, Camarines Norte, Southern Leyte, Burias Island, northern Cebu, Dinagat Island and Siargao Island.

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Pentax is taking its compact Optio W60, an update of its waterproof cameras, even deeper underwater to find customers.

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Oil crosses 136 dollars

NEW YORK - Crude oil hit 136 dollars a barrel Friday for the first time in New York trade, jumping more than eight dollars in a day as the market responded to a sharp decline in the dollar.

New York's main oil futures contract, light sweet crude for July delivery, touched an all-time high of 136.62 dollars a barrel, up 8.83 dollars from Thursday's close.

That far outstripped its previous all-time peak of 135.09 dollars struck on on May 22.

The dollar slumped after the US government reported the US unemployment rate jumped unexpectedly by a half percentage point to 5.5 percent last month, the steepest increase in more than two decades.

The weakening dollar boosts oil prices because it makes crude relatively cheaper for buyers using other currencies, analysts said.

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Four hurt in Cavite LPG blast

Four members of a family were injured after a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinder exploded inside their home in Rosario, Cavite, before dawn Tuesday.

Senior Superintendent Edgar Rotero of the Cavite Police Provincial Office said Vigildo Bombita and his three sons identified as Niño, Bryan and Byron, were asleep on the second floor of their home when the LPG tank exploded around 1 a.m.

Rotero said the victims fell from the second floor after it collapsed because of the explosion's impact. Three other homes were affected by the explosion, police investigators said.

The victims were rushed to St. Martin's Hospital in Rosario town.

Rotero said Vigildo initially suspected that the explosion was caused by the air-conditioning unit. Police ordnance personnel, however, ruled out Vigildo's theory because the unit was still working properly.

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Las Piñas fire

Three people were hurt and 130 houses burned down when a fire broke out in Las Piñas City Saturday night.

Firefighters estimated that more than P3 million worth of property in Factor Compound in Barangay Almanza Uno were destroyed by the blaze.

Investigators are still determining the cause of the fire but they suspect that a lighted candle left unattended inside one of the houses may have sparked the fire.

The residents, however, suspect arson--they said the fire may have been deliberately set in order to drive them out of their homes.

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