PHILIPPINES NEWS SERVICE — IT’S final. The government will wage an all-out war on the Abu Sayyaf Group not offer the bandits amnesty. Malacañang arrived at this decision amid the barrage of…
Enrile to help housemaids
PHILIPPINES NEWS SERVICE — After tackling the problem of the ordinary cellphone users victimized by “vanishing loads,” Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile is now setting his sight on abused or maltreated housemaids…
Nograles-Duterte word war rages
PHILIPPINES NEWS SERVICE — THE investigation on the extra-judicial killings in Davao City by the Commission on Human Rights has become a word war between two feuding prominent politicians, Speaker Prospero Nograles…
Surveys vs. upcoming SONA
In today’s headline of the Inquirer, Social Weather Station came out once again with the latest (dis)satisfaction rating of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. This means that at 54% to 55%, her grading…
Database of Filipino S&T Researchers Re-launched
The Bahay Kubo Research (BKR) team, a group of young Filipino researchers working voluntarily to promote S&T in the Philippines, re-launched its database of Filipino researchers’ website this week. The new database…
Seafarers’ NGO urges RP government to act on piracy problem
Manila – With 44 Filipino seafarers remain in captivity in Somalia and a number in Nigeria, the International Seafarers’ Action Center (ISAC) Philippines Foundation, Inc. once again, appealed to the Philippine government…
(U.S. ASIAN WIRE) Jim Barredo, Filipino American Drummer of Explosive Band
Jim Barredo, Filipino American Drummer CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (U.S. ASIAN WIRE) Tim Be Told, Charlottesville’s confection of catchy hooks and positive vibes, is a band on the rise. They combine a variety of…
GMA sets island-hopping to belie health speculations
PHILIPPINES NEWS SERVICE — IN a bid to end speculations about her health, President Macapagal-Arroyo will go island hopping this coming week after curtailing her self-quarantine at the Asian hospital in Muntinlupa…
Poll automation back on road after players reconcile
PHILIPPINES NEWS SERVICE — THE full automation of the 2010 national elections will push through, the Commission on Elections said yesterday after Smartmatic and its Filipino partner Total Information Management Corp. patched…
RP ceases as haven for fugitive aliens
PHILIPPINES NEWS SERVICE — THE Philippines has ceased to be a safe haven for foreigners eluding the law in their countries. An American wanted in the United States for possessing and selling…
GMA boob job denied
PHILIPPINES NEWS SERVICE — PRESIDENT Macapagal-Arroyo checked in at the Asian Hospital for her self-imposed quarantine and while in the hospital had a biopsy to check a mass which was found to…
THE GRAND MIDORI MAKATI
THE GRAND MIDORI MAKATI GREETINGS; Federal Land Inc., the property developer of the Metrobank Group., has formed a joint venture company with Japanese real estate firm Orix Corp. to develop a P4-billion…
Anti-smoking ordinance of San Juan City
San Juan City bans smoking in public San Juan bans smoking in public By FRANCIS T. WAKEFIELD Manila Bulletin July 5, 2009, 8:40pm The ordinance, known as “The Comprehensive Anti-Smoking Ordinance of…
Facebook Game ‘Brain Buddies’ Becomes the New Darling of Facebook Users
– 1.5 Million minutes of play time during the first week – Launched in 8 languages – Most international Facebook Game with user from 150 countries – Dispute among Facebook users: Whose…
So-called ‘terrorist card’?
It seems unlikely the growing suspicion that GMA plays the ‘terrorist card’ at a time when she appears to have a problem of her own resulting from another doubt that lingered in…