1.   Hardest hit among property stocks was Megaworld Properties and Holdings Inc., a condominium builder closely identified with the on-going construction boom in the Philippine capital.

2.   In a briefing for analysts, Sio said the Philippine capital, given its current income and population levels, is already saturated with shopping malls.

3.   The Philippine capital and surrounding provinces produce about a third of economic output.

4.   A group of Americans and their families flew back to the Philippine capital Monday after being released from five days of captivity by suspected Muslim extremists.

5.   A group of Americans and their families flew back to the Philippine capital Monday after being released from their five-day captivity by suspected Muslim extremists.

6.   Both trains were bound for Manila when they collided in the suburb - a squatter town to the south of the Philippine capital.

7.   Central bank officials discussed the fund briefly in the Philippine capital, Manila, earlier this month, but no conclusion was reached, Herbert said.

8.   Estrada and Ang were among those charged in the Philippines in April with the Philippine capital offense of plunder, or the theft of public funds.

9.   Five people drowned in floodwaters in Pangasinan province northwest of the Philippine capital, police said.

10.   He remained jailed Friday in Manila, the Philippine capital.