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Category: Yahoo

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    VERA Files statement on DFA’s statement on Sabah for Spratlys story

    Mar 31, 2015 7:12 PM

      The Department of Foreign Affairs is misleading the public when it says “Sabah is not in any way part of the note” verbale the Phililippine government sent recently to Malaysia in denying VERA Files’s story “PH offers Sabah to win Malaysia’s support for UN case vs China.” Note Verbale No. 15-1979 sent to Malaysia, […]

    sabah, spratlys

  • Categories Arts & Culture Yahoo

    The Chusueys: Good argument for family business

    Mar 30, 2015 6:44 PM

      By CHICKIE LOCSIN THE fast-expanding Henann Group of hotels is a good argument for a family business. At the helm is the patriarch, Henry Chusuey. His wife Ana, twelve years his junior, is the company treasurer. Henann is a combination of their name: Henry plus Ana. The couple mentors their only daughter Christina Ann, […]

    Henann Hotel groups

  • Categories Banner Yahoo

    PH offers Sabah to win Malaysia’s support for UN case vs China

    Mar 30, 2015 12:30 AM

        By TESSA JAMANDRE THE Philippines has offered to downgrade its claim on Sabah in exchange for Malaysia’s support for its case against China before the United Nations. The quid pro quo was contained in a note verbale the Department of Foreign Affairs handed to a representative of the Malaysian Embassy last week, a […]

    sabah, spratlys

  • Categories Arts & Culture Yahoo

    Loom bands for a cause

    Mar 25, 2015 6:15 PM

      By OFELIA C. EMPIAN FOR Melchora Grace Balacdao-Matias, looming bands began as an activity to merely overcome boredom in her new work environment in Kuwait. Little did Matias (Mitz to her friends) know that her loom bands would be of help to some 500 school children in the remote municipality of Bakun in Benguet […]

    loom bands

  • Categories Top Stories Yahoo

    What PNoy and Kris Aquino text each other

    Mar 25, 2015 12:26 PM

    By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS OMG. I almost fell off my chair upon reading the text exchanges between President Aquino and his sister, Kris Aquino posted by journalist Cecil Morella in Facebook. Tuesday afternoon, Kris Aquino posted in her Instagram account (withlovekrisaquino) her text exchanges with the President last Friday just to disprove rumors that PNoy […]

    Kris Aquino, PNoy

  • Categories Top Stories Yahoo

    A novel approach against TB in Maguindanao

    Mar 24, 2015 9:19 AM

    Text and photo by JAKE SORIANO UPI, MAGUINDANAO — Free medicines and half a sack of rice have gone a long way in combatting deadly tuberculosis here. Alarmed at the high TB detection rates in Upi, the local government and the rural health center have resorted to rewarding cured patients, as well as those who […]

    maguindanao, TB, tuberculosis, Upi

  • Categories Arts & Culture Yahoo

    Dancing to a better life

    Mar 23, 2015 11:18 PM

      By CHICKIE LOCSIN From bleak garbage dumps to glamor-filled dance floors, Wilbert Aunzo has come a long way. Aunzo was a scavenger and an out –of- school youth who picked garbage to buy his daily meal of rice and salt . When he was twelve, he joined a dance camp organized by Edward and […]

    DanceSport

  • Categories News Yahoo

    Santa Clarita, California to welcome Filipino Special Olympic athletes

    Mar 19, 2015 10:29 AM

    Text and photos by ARTHA KIRA PAREDES LOS ANGELES, California—Before participating in the nine-day 2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games, the 52-member Filipino delegation will be welcomed and celebrated in Santa Clarita City. Santa Clarita is among the 100 host towns where Special Olympic athletes will be staying from July 21 to 24. It will […]

    Disability, PWDs, Special Olympics

  • Categories Top Stories Yahoo

    Poe to Aquino: Be a leader, tell the truth

    Mar 18, 2015 6:25 AM

                                      By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS READING President Aquino’s speech before the 2015 graduates of the Philippine Military Academy last Sunday, I got the impression that he is isolated from the real world outside Malacañang. For how does one who has to suffer daily the monstrous Metro Manila traffic and the inefficiency of the MRT accept […]

    Fallen44, Grace Poe, Mamasapano tragedy

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    BOI requested for interview with Aquino

    Mar 16, 2015 10:29 PM

    By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS IT is not true that the Board of Inquiry did not try to ask the side of President Aquino on the Jan. 25 Mamasapano tragedy that claimed 67 lives including 44 of the country’s elite police commandos, 18 members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, and five civilians, including an eight-year […]

    BOI-PNP report, Fallen44, Mamasapano tragedy

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