Posts Tagged Philippine News
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, PhilippinesThe celebration of National Buntis (pregnant women) Day on the 10th of March every year highlights the significance of what is considered by many as life’s greatest miracle: A mother carrying a new human being in her womb. While pregnancy is often a cause for happiness and celebration, it is also a time to make big decisions for the new mom that would later have immediate and long-term impacts on the baby’s life. One of these crucial decisions, according to a nonprofit organization focused on lactation education, is how to feed the child
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, PhilippinesFor the first time since elections have been held in the country, detainees will be allowed to exercise their right to vote in the May balloting. The Commission on Elections, saying it was high time that the disenfranchisement of detainees ended, will run a pilot program with the Commission on Human Rights in this year’s elections for the enfranchisement of 24,000 detainees. “Unlike Canada, Australia,…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, PhilippinesA day after a state of calamity was declared in Mindanao due to long brownouts in the region, environmentalists said the Arroyo government should not blame El Niño, a periodically recurrent phenomenon, for causing the power and water shortages. In a statement on Saturday, Archie Orillosa of the Advocates of Science and Technology for the People (AGHAM), said the Arroyo government and the National Grid Corp. (NGCP) should have prepared for the coming of the El Niño phenomenon.
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BATANGAS CITY, PhilippinesA motor boat with about 10 passengers on board suffered a broken hull and was carried away by the waves as it drifted off Fortune island in Nasugbu Saturday….
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, PhilippinesNacionalista Party standard bearer Senator Manuel Villar arrived here on Saturday for the second day of his slate’s barnstorming in Eastern Visayas.
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ARLINGTON - His campaign for political office in the Philippines will begin soon. He has hinted that this could be his last fight.
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MANILA, PhilippinesIf only he knows when and where, Liberal Party standard-bearer Sen. Benigno ‘Noynoy’ Aquino III is raring to debate Nacionalista Party candidate Sen.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, PhilippinesVice President Noli de Castro and Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile scored ‘moderate’ net satisfaction ratings, Chief Justice Reynato Puno a ‘neutral’ net satisfaction rating, and House Speaker Prospero Nograles a ‘poor’ net satisfaction rating in the Fourth Quarter…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
FRONTLINE 03/13/2010 Had Speaker Prospero Nograles not moved to have the zombie registrants removed by filing a mandamus before the high court, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) commissioners would have done nothing to clean up the voters list. Recall that during the joint congressional panel hearing, the commissioners claimed that they cannot, motu propio, delist these double, multiple and dead voters, since this was now within the jurisdiction of the court through exclusion proceedings, with even Comelec Chairman Jose Melo, even claiming that these registrants falling under the double, multiple and dead in the voters list simply committed honest mistakes. Now suddenly, the…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
FEATURE 03/13/2010 TAIPEI With his thick central Chinese accent, Chen Tangsan could easily be mistaken for any other resident of Henan province, but he is in fact a descendant of Taiwanese headhunters and proud of it. More than 350 years after a distant ancestor left Taiwan and settled deep in Chinas interior, Chen returned to the island, seeking his roots in the verdant hills which aboriginal tribes still consider their own. Ive finally found my ancestral home, the 43-year-old told AFP after his first trip to the Tsou tribe near Taiwans iconic Alishan mountain.
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
03/13/2010 Some 9,000 pending cases languishing in the Department of Justice (DoJ) since the Ramos administration will be resolved in the next four months, if Acting Justice Secretary Alberto Agra will have his way. Agra said he has no plan of overhauling the organization and would instead concentrate on reducing the backlog of cases.
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03/13/2010 An energy crisis in the country triggered by a severe drought deepened yesterday as Metro Manila endured another round of rolling blackouts. It was the third week this year that the nations capital faced power outages, while Mindanao has faced blackouts daily for more than a month. We have a supply deficiency
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, Philippines After weeks of scorching heat, rain has finally come at least in parts of Metro Manila and the government-run weather bureau is forecasting that there will be more due to a cold…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
SANGAY, CAMARINES SURPwersa ng Masang Pilipino vice presidential candidate Mayor Jejomar Binay said Thursday he’ll be ready to take over in the event both he and former President Joseph Estrada win and Estrada opts to cut short…
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
MANILA, PhilippinesThe Department of Justice (DoJ) has ordered the Quezon City Prosecutor’s Office to charge Judge Ma. Theresa de la Torre-Yadao with ‘knowingly rendering unjust judgment’ when she convicted former Occidental Mindoro Rep.
