To keep production up, papermakers turned to the Manila rope typically found on ships. In contrast to cotton and linen, Manila rope was derived from Manila hemp—an extremely strong and durable ...

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Hundreds of thousands of Catholic pilgrims swarmed the streets of Manila in search of a miracle ... the Nazarene statue -- scrambled to grab the rope used to draw the life-sized religious icon ...

By nudging ASEAN to take a tougher stance, Teodoro's trying to rope the bloc into a bilateral beef, risking division over solidarity. It's less about regional unity and more about Manila flexing ...