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  • PNoy wants sanctions for local execs who allow return of informal settlers near waterways

    President Benigno Aquino III wants sanctions for local government officials who will allow informal settlers to return and build houses near waterways, a Cabinet official said Wednesday.Public Works and Highways Secretary Rogelio Singson said Aquino gave the directive during Tuesday's Cabinet meeting to make sure that the government will be able to implement its plan to clear eight priority ...

  • SC justices back Sereno in SQA order vs. Comelec money ban

    Supreme Court magistrates have formally supported the status quo ante (SQA) order issued by Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno stopping the implementation of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) resolution against large cash withdrawals before the May 13 polls.To recall, an SC resolution days before the elections said the order was "[g]iven by authority of Chief Justice [Maria Lourdes ...

  • American predator professor suspected to have abused Filipino children roamed Asia

    Mexican authorities have arrested an American professor who was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in the resort city of Playa del Carmen. Prosecutor Gaspar Armando Garcia Torres said Walter Lee Williams, 64, (pictured) a former university professor, is wanted on charges of sexual exploitation of children and traveling to Philippines for child sex. Garcia said Williams was ...

  • Philippines sends fresh troops to disputed shoal

    MANILA (AP) - The Philippine defence secretary says his country sent fresh troops and supplies to a Philippine-occupied shoal in the disputed South China Sea where Chinese ships recently established a presence. Defence Secretary Voltaire Gazmin said on Wednesday that a small contingent of Filipino marines was sent to replace troops at the Second Thomas Shoal early this week. The Filipino ...

  • National local governments addressing flood problem — officials

    Government officials together with local government units (LGUs) are doing their parts in addressing the country's perennial flood problems, at least two Cabinet secretaries said Wednesday."Tumutulong naman ang mga LGUs, 'yung ating mga mayors ay kausap natin, at iba't ibang ahensya ng LGUs ay nakatutok naman dito sa ating mga baha," said Interior and Local Government ...

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Any Given Sunday

In "Any Given Sunday," director Oliver Stone indulges all of his worst impulses in the service of a storyline that is conventional at best, but he still manages to emerge with a mildly engaging film. Overwrought and underdeveloped, "Any Given Sunday" explodes on the screen with all the sound and fury of Stone's "Natural Born Killers" (1994) without any of the substance. Far from the searing indic ... ...

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  • Govt now on final phase of updating 80-year-old Penal Code

    The government is now in the final part of a two-phase revision of the 80-year-old Revised Penal Code (RPC), enacted during the American occupation in 1932. The Department of Justice (DOJ) said the Criminal Code Committee (CCC), created in April 2011 to carry out the task of updating the country's general criminal code, has started "Phase 2" or drafting "Book 2" of the ...

  • COA Over P90M of P155 fund for rehab centers still unliquidated

    Part of the P155 million funding intended for the construction and maintenance of drug rehabilitation centers in the country has yet to be accounted for, according to the Commission on Audit (COA) in a report.The funds were released by the Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB) to national government agencies (P140.57 million), local government units (P13.99 million), and non-government organizations ...

  • Tobacco enriches corrupts northern Philippines

    This photo taken on May 2, 2013 shows children sorting tobacco leaves for curing at a farm in Currimao town, Ilocos norte province, northern Philippines. Tobacco enriches and corrupts in the dry, sun-drenched northern Philippines, where family fortunes as well as political empires are built on the golden leaf. AFP / TED ALJIBE CANDON CITY, Philippines--Tobacco enriches and corrupts in the dry, ...

  • IHT Rendezvous Sending a Signal Philippines to Destroy Ivory Stock

    Workers arrange some of five tons of confiscated ivory at the Ninoy Aquino Parks and Wildlife center in Quezon city. The tusks will be destroyed Friday to oppose the illegal wildlife trade, Philippines officials ...

  • UPDATE 1-Robinsons Retail plans up to $924 mln Philippine IPO

    Wed Jun 19, 2013 1:54am EDT (Adds details on company and Philippine IPO market) * Plans to sell 461.9 mln shares at 86.64 pesos each * Offering is one of the biggest IPOs in Philippines * Manila index down more than 12 pct since mid-May HONG KONG/MANILA, June 19 (Reuters) - Robinsons Retail Group, which operates supermarkets, hardware and department stores in the Philippines, plans to raise up ...

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