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Manila quits disputed shoal

Philippine President Benigno Aquino has ordered home its two ships engaged in a maritime standoff with China over a disputed shoal, citing bad weather, according to the government.

President Aquino has ordered two ships to leave Scarborough Shoal as a typhoon was approaching.

Aquino ordered a coast guard patrol vessel and a fisheries bureau survey ship out of Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea on Friday night, Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said.

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