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Protesters burn an effigy of Philippine President Benigno Aquino III during a rally near the president's Malacanang Palace in Manila on Labor Day, Tuesday, May 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

**FILE** Air Force Maj. Richard Buck, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Graig Salt and Navy Capt. Craig Cupp work June 9, 2006, to reconstruct the cleft lip of a 13-year-old girl aboard the U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Mercy in Jolo, Philippines. (Courtesy of U.S. Navy)

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Philippine President Benigno Aquino III (left) talks with Myanmar President Thein Sein after a group photograph at the opening ceremony of the 20th ASEAN summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

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** FILE ** A volunteer from the Philippine Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) pets a pit bull, one of more than 200 rescued from South Korean nationals at a coffee farm lot in San Pablo city, Laguna province, south of Manila, Philippines, on April 3, 2012. (Associated Press)

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The stricken cruise ship Azamara Quest is seen in the Sulu Sea in the southern Philippines on Saturday, March 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Philippine air force)

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Col. Arnulfo Marcelo Burgos, a spokesman for the Philippine military, shows a picture of Malaysian Zulkipli bin Hir, also known as Marwan, a top leader of the regional, al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah terror network, during a press conference on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012, in Quezon City, Philippines, north of Manila. (AP Photo/Pat Roque)

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Residents search for victims following a landslide that occurred Jan. 5, 2012, in the small-scale mining community of Pantukan in southern Philippines. (Associated Press/Philippine Army)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS A resident of Cagayan de Oro in the southern Philippines dries his clothes on toppled trees along a riverbank on Thursday. Flash flooding Dec. 16 killed more than 1,000 people.

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Soldiers and health workers carry the body of a flash-flood victim in preparation for a mass burial at a public cemetery on Monday in Iligan city, southern Philippines. Tropical storm Washi blew away Monday after devastating the southern Philippines with flash floods that killed hundreds of people as they slept and turned two coastal cities into a muddy wasteland filled with overturned cars and uprooted trees. (Associated Press)

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Police carry the body of a victim by a flash flood that hit Cagayan de Oro city, Philippines, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011. A tropical storm triggered flash floods in the southern Philippines, killing scores of people and missing more. Mayor Lawrence Cruz of nearby Iligan said the coast guard and other rescuers were scouring the waters off his coastal city for survivors or bodies that may have been swept to the sea by a swollen river. (AP Photo/Froilan Gallardo)

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Kevin Lunsman, a kidnapped American teenage boy, talks Dec. 10, 2011, to Filipino soldiers inside the Philippine military compound in Zamboanga City, Philippines, following his escape from suspected al Qaeda-linked militants. (Associated Press)

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Philippine President Benigno Aquino III (left) addresses the National Criminal Justice Summit in Manila on Monday, Dec. 5, 2011, as Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona (right) and Anti-Graft Court Presiding Justice Francisco Villaluz Jr. listen. (AP Photo/Malacanang Palace Photo Bureau, Gil Nartea)

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A U.S. Marine salutes the colors during a wreath-laying ceremony at the American Cemetery and Memorial at suburban Taguig city, east of Manila, Philippines, as they pay tribute to U.S. veterans and their families on Veterans Day Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. The Manila American Cemetery and Memorial contains the remains of WWII Americans who died in the Pacific, China, India, and Burma along with Philippine Scouts who served with the U.S. forces. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

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Residents evacuate to safer grounds as massive flooding continues for the second day Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011, at Calumpit township, Bulacan province north of Manila, Philippines. Typhoon Nalgae, the second typhoon in a week to hit the rain-soaked northern Philippines, added misery to thousands of people, some of whom are still perched on rooftops while several other Asian nations also reeled from flooding. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS A sculpture by Filipino contemporary artist Mideo Cruz showing his version of Jesus Christ was part of the exhibit at Manila's Cultural Center of the Philippines that caused an outcry over its use of religious figures and symbols.

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Reynaldo Balawing (left) and wife Concepcion Balawing, parents of Junrey Balawing, 18, react as Junrey jokes on the microphone on June 12, 2011, after he was officially declared 'the world's shortest living man' by the Guinness World Records at Sindangan Municipal Hall, Sindangan township, Zamboanga Del Norte province in Southern Philippines. (Associated Press)

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Motorists drive through floodwaters following a sudden downpour that inundated low-lying areas in Manila, Philippines, on May 24, 2011. (Associated Press)

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Philippine President Benigno Aquino III, center, Vice-President Jejomar Binay, left, and former President Fidel Ramos, right, link arms as they sing a patriotic song to celebrate the 25th anniversary of People Power Friday Feb. 25, 2011, at the People Power Monument along EDSA highway at suburban Quezon city, northeast of Manila, Philippines. Mr. Ramos was one of the leaders of the nearly bloodless four-day people power revolution 25 years ago that ousted the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos from 20-year rule and helped install Aquino's mother Corazon "Cory" Aquino to the presidency. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

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Civilians flash an "L" sign (for Laban which means Fight!) as they sing patriotic song during the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the People Power revolution Friday, Feb. 25, 2011, at the People Power Monument along EDSA highway at suburban Quezon city, northeast of Manila, Philippines. The nearly bloodless four-day people power revolution 25 years ago saw the ouster of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos from 20-year rule and helped install current President Benigno Aquino III's mother Corazon "Cory" Aquino to the presidency. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)