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SUDDEN DOWNPOUR IN METRO MANILA

Marikina residents play in the rain after a sudden downpour following a humid Friday afternoon in the metropolis. The weather bureau PAGASA had warned of isolated rainshowers prior to the onset of the rainy season. (Photo by Rem Zamora for ABS-CBNnews.com)

SLIDESHOW: Philippine underground economy workers
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Despite the holiday, traffic on EDSA at the Kamuning flyover is at a standstill on Monday as motorists and travelers on buses return to the capital after the long weekend. Many Metro Manila residents took advantage of the long vacation and started returning to to the metropolis only on Monday. Photo by Manny Palmero for ABS-CBNnews.com (SOURCE)

SLIDESHOW: A (Filipino) Woman’s Day

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INTERACTIVE: Japan earthquake, then and now

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On March 11, 2011, at 2:46 p.m. local time, a magnitude 8.9 earthquake jolted the northeast coastal area of Japan.

The epicenter was in Oshika Peninsula of Tohoku.

But the largest devastation was wrought on Iwate Prefecture, devastated by tsunami waves that reached as high as 40 meters (133 feet).

It would turn out to be the strongest earthquake to hit Japan ever, more powerful than the Great Kanto earthquake that devastated Tokyo in 1923 or more recently, the Great Hanshin earthquake that shook the Kobe area in 1995.

The quake took more than 19,000 lives with total damages estimated at over US$122 billion.

Nearly a year later, a photographer of Agence France Presse (AFP) went back to the scenes where the original pictures of the quake were taken by AFP. Here, in an interactive format, is how the area looked like before and after.

UPLB students protest the killing of Rey Peñaranda

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Students from the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) gather on Monday to mourn and condemn the killing of Rey Peñaranda, a 3rd-year student in the UPLB who was stabbed Sunday morning during a mugging incident just outside of the university. 

Buses used by INC members fill Roxas Boulevard

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A line of buses, used by members of the Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC) to go to their gathering at the Qurino Grandstand, stretches on both sides of Roxas Boulevard as far as the eye can see on Tuesday. The INC’s “grand evangelical mission” is seen by some political analysts as a show of force behind impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona. 

Panagbenga festival in Baguio City

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A contingent from Kabayan, Benguet, performs their winning entry “Adivay Festival” in the Street Dancing competition of the Panagbenga Flower Festival in Baguio City. The Panagbenga is an annual festival held in Baguio City to celebrate the city’s abundance of flowers.

Children play in the rain

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Students from an elementary School in Quezon City use a makeshift slide to play on the gutter after a sudden downpour in Metro Manila on Thursday. The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomic Services (PAGASA) said a Low Pressure Area is affecting the southern part of the country. 

Two giant crocodiles caught in Palawan

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Two giant saltwater crocodiles, caught in a river in  Bgy. Rio Tuba in Bataraza, Palawan are transferred on Tuesday night to the custody of the Palawan Crocodile Farm and Conservatory in Puerto Princesa. Farm officials named the 16-foot male crocodile as Valentino and the 11-foot female as Valentina on the occasion of Valentine’s Day.