1.   The Philippine government wants the U.S. to maintain a military presence in Southeast Asia.

2.   An envoy to Philippine government hostage negotiator Robert Aventajado confirmed seeing Schilling in an Abu Sayyaf camp, a U.S. State Department representative said.

3.   As Islamic extremism has become public enemy number one and has recently emerged in southeast Asia, Gloria suggested that the Philippine government may be playing up this fear.

4.   Both Subic and Clark are owned by the Philippine government.

5.   A Philippine government official said the immigration authorities can hold him indefinitely.

6.   A study of Subic, which the Philippine government is developing as an international business and tourism zone, found only isolated contamination.

7.   According to Pardo, Tan requested asked the Philippine government to help the beleaguered airline.

8.   But it was only in the past three months that the university received the endorsement from the Philippine government to prepare a demonstration for the APEC forum in Manila.

9.   But the Philippine government has ruled out direct combat involvement by American troops.

10.   Congress passed the legislation at the behest of the Philippine government, which feared that many of its ablest citizens would leave the country.