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  • PNoy rallies Navy says PHL will not be cowed by threats

    – Faced with an ongoing diplomatic row with Taiwan and a long-standing territorial dispute with China, President Benigno Aquino III on Tuesday rallied Navy troops here, saying the Philippines will not be cowed by threats including those from the outside."Sa ilalim ng ating agenda ng mabuting pamamahala, malinaw ang pahiwatig natin ngayon sa buong mundo: Ang sa Pilipinas ay sa ...

  • Purple Vote vs White Vote It was a tie

    The Reproductive Health (RH) law was an election campaign battleground, with the Purple Vote movement (pro) and the White Vote camp (anti) each vociferously backing their endorsed ...

  • New batch of Mancao photos also photoshopped De Lima says

    As far as Justice Secretary Leila de Lima is concerned, photos of fugitive murder suspect Cezar Mancao II showing him in various locations, including outside the Department of Justice (DOJ) main office on Padre Faura in Manila, are "obviously photoshopped."Interviewed on Tuesday, De Lima appealed to the media not to entertain Mancao, a suspect in the high-profile Dacer-Corbito double ...

  • PHL open to fisheries pact after resolving diplomatic row with Taiwan

    FORT SAN FELIPE, Cavite City -- The Philippines is open to discussing a fisheries agreement with its neighboring countries after resolving its diplomatic row with Taiwan triggered by the fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman in disputed waters earlier this ...

  • Coin tossing breaks tie in Philippine mayoral race

    Marvic Feraren and Boyet Py both received 3,236 votes for mayor of San Teodoro town in Mindoro Oriental province in Monday's elections.The Elections Commissions suggested the two men flip a coin five times each, which is allowed under the country's Election Code to break a tie.Feraren won Tuesday, but not before a second round of coin flipping.They tied in the first round ...

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Kill Bill: Vol. 2

Kill Bill: Vol. 2

The second part of Quentin Tarantinos unjustly cleaved exploitation epic Kill Bill is as vastly different from the first as the first was from all the other films he had made up until that point. A grindhouse homage to chop-stocky ultraviolence and vengeance-fueled heroics, ... ...

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  • PNoy still not keen on Cha-cha in next Congress

    - President Benigno Aquino III is still not keen on changing economic provisions of the 1987 Constitution in the next Congress, despite getting most of his allies elected in both chambers of the legislature during the midterm polls.In an interview here Tuesday, Aquino said his administration would rather focus on making the bureaucracy more efficient and building infrastructure to attract ...

  • Australia increases aid to PHL

    Australia is increasing its development assistance to the Philippines with continued focus on education, poverty reduction, and climate change. The Australian government will provide Manila P5.7 billion or AUS$141 million in official development assistance for the period 2013-2014, a AUS$12.3 million or P494 million increase from last year’s AUS$128.7 million or P5.5 billion. ...

  • PNoy thumbs down proposal to defer 2013 barangay polls

    - President Benigno Aquino III on Tuesday rejected a proposal from the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to defer the 2013 barangay elections."Kinakabahan ako baka maraming postponement na mangyariKailangan kayanin nila (Comelec)," Aquino told reporters after attending a Philippine Navy event here.On ...

  • US concerned over Philippines killing of Taiwanese fisherman

    WASHINGTON, May 15 (Xinhua) -- The United States on Wednesday expressed concern about the increasing tensions between the Philippines and China's Taiwan following last week's fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman by the Philippine Coast Guard. At a news briefing, the State Department's acting deputy spokesman Patric Ventrell also urged the two sides to take "all ...

  • Malaysia completes probe of Kiram intrusion focuses on three individuals

    Malaysian authorities have completed their investigation into the entry into Sabah of armed followers of Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III, with the probe zeroing in on least three individuals, a Malaysian news site reported on Tuesday. ...

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