BY JP LOPEZ
DESPITE its failure to extract the “truth” from Rowena del Rosario, the Senate blue ribbon committee yesterday freed the former bookkeeper of LTA Inc. in the probe of the sale of pre-owned Robinson helicopters at brand-new price to the PNP in 2009. Upon the motion of Sen. Francis Escudero, the panel lifted the contempt citation and the arrest order against Del Rosario. Continue reading
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LAS VEGAS – The editor-in-chief of Ring Magazine, known as the Bible of Boxing, has given Manny Pacquiao his full blessing. Nigel Collins, who joined the magazine in 1972 and became editor-in-chief in 1985, was at Friday’s official weigh-in for Pacquiao’s exciting rematch with Marco Antonio Barrera. Continue reading
Marlon Purificacion – HINDI pa man natatapos ang hinagpis ng mga Pinoy sa panlalait ng programang “Desperate Housewives” ng ABC TV, lumabas naman sa YouTube ang isa pang mapanlait at pambabastos kay dating Pangulong Corazon ‘Cory’ Aquino kung saan sinabihan itong slut o babaing kaladkarin. Continue reading
By Jose Katigbak – It looked like a scene from a Filipino tearjerker. But Nora Aunor was not acting when she cried tears of joy, hugged her lawyer and drew an audible sigh of relief after a court in California dismissed two-year-old drug charges against her. Continue reading
MANILA (AFP) — The Philippine government is to seek an apology from the producers of the hit US television series “Desperate Housewives” for a racial slur against Filipino medics, the Philippine Daily Inquirer said on its web site Wednesday. [VIDEO]
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Contestants for the upcoming Amazing Philippines Beauties contest for transvestites and transsexuals pose during a press launch at a hotel in Manila October 2, 2007. REUTERS/Darren Whiteside (PHILIPPINES) Continue reading
Benjamin Abalos, second from right, head of the Commission on Elections, makes his way thru a crowd at a press conference at his house in suburban Mandaluyong, east of Manila, Philippines, on Monday Oct. 1, 2007. The scandal-tainted Philippine elections chief announced his resignation Monday amid allegations he tried to bribe a Cabinet official and a businessman to approve a broadband contract with a Chinese company. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
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A jeepney drives thru a street flooded from heavy rains in Manila, August 2007. Tropical storm Lekima killed nine people and left another missing in the Philippines after unleashing landslides, floods and big waves, rescuers said Sunday.(AFP/File/Jay Directo)
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The UN Security Council issued a benign statement of concern over Myanmar’s violent crackdown against peaceful protestors. Asian countries need to step forward and strongly condemn the regime.
By Klaus Dahmann – Pinning hopes on the United Nations Security Council is often pointless. Once again, the council has left the impression that when its authority is needed the most, the highest UN committee remains divided. What sounds good on paper–the task of protecting world peace–has proved in practice to once again be a sham. Myanmar is the most recent example of this. Continue reading
By Gaby Tabunar – The letters OFW stand for Overseas Filipino Workers. Roughly ten percent of the country’s 80 million people have gone abroad to work, earning much more than they could make here.
A whole bureaucracy is built around this migration. One agency processes more than a thousand applications of workers who want to work abroad. Continue reading