RALLY
Anti-riot policemen swing their batons at running protesters to disperse them as they rally to protest against what they claim to be US intervention outside the US embassy in Manila yesterday. Filipino and US troops are holding exercises in the Sulu Sea off the western Philippine province of Palawan, which lies near the disputed Spratly Islands. Conflicting territorial claims by several countries over the Spratlys and Paracels are raising tensions in Asia.