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  • New anti-dengue technique needs at least 3 more years of work DOH open to field test

    A new way to fight dengue mosquitoes by "bugging" them with a virus is still years away from deployment, but this early the Department of Health has indicated that it is open to field testing the technique. The DOH has expressed its willingness to have bugging of mosquitoes field-tested in the country although Dr. Scott O'Neill pointed out that at the moment, "there is no ...

  • Filipinos celebrate Philippine Independence Day at SF’s Union Square

    Moreau high school dancers in Union Square, San Francisco. https://www.facebook.com/KalayaanSF SAN FRANCISCO--What a way to celebrate the 115th year of Philippine independence--Filipinos transformed San Francisco's landmark Union Square into a Philippine town plaza for a day last June 15. Where there were usually art shows and buskers, was now filled with food booths vending lumpia, ...

  • Philippine Muslims Wait for Peace Agreement

    Manila, Jun 18 (Prensa Latina) The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (FMLI) expressed its dissatisfaction with the governmental delay in the signing of the peace agreement. Our organization feels discouraged by the constant delay of the government to reach definitive peace, said in a ABS-CBN television station's report Ghazali Jaafar, vice President of FMLI, group that was founded in 1984 with ...

  • US 7-11 stores rapped for exploiting Filipinos

    Graphics depicting the locations of 7-Eleven stores involved in a federal indictment are shown after a news conference at the US Attorney’s office, Monday, June 17, 2013, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Philippine officials in the US are investigating the reported exploitation of Filipino immigrants at several 7-Eleven convenience stores in two East Coast states under a scheme likened ...

  • Fila throws full support behind Philippine Volcanoes

    FILA president/CEO Cris Albert, Philippine Volcanoes' representative/chair William Bailey Global sportswear brand Fila is known for its specialized product lines in running, basketball, racquet sports and golf. It opened in the country in 1983, launching an apparel line and later specializing in footwear. Since then, it has become one of the country's premier footwear brands, under ...

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Win Win [Blu-Ray]

Win Win [Blu-Ray]

So-called feel-good movies are tricky business because most filmmakers are all too willing to paper over or outright bend reality in order to deliver the emotional candy the audience is craving. Of course, a little candy isnt a bad thing, but too much of it makes you sick, and that is often the c ... ...

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  • With crummy airport and mercenary taxi drivers it’s not fun in the Philippines

    Tourism Secretary Ramon R. Jimenez, Jr. will have to get airport authorities to improve their services, particularly transport, if we are to convince visitors is it, indeed, more fun in the Philippines. Last week's column on overcharging taxi drivers stirred a hornet's nest. The feedback I received would make travelers, including Filipinos, want to take the first flight out of the ...

  • Five slain five kidnapped in Philippines

    COMMUNIST insurgents have killed five civilians and kidnapped five soldiers in the southern Philippines in the latest of a series of violent acts following the collapse of peace talks, authorities ...

  • Cayetano the only senator-elect to comply with all SOCE filing requirements

    Only one among the 12 senators-elect who were elected or re-elected to the Senate during the recent May polls complied fully with the Commission on Elections' requirements in the filing of expenditures reports, the Comelec said Tuesday.According to an urgent memorandum from the office of Comelec commissioner Christian Robert Lim, Alan Peter Cayetano is the lone senatorial victor who ...

  • In Global First Philippines to Destroy Its Ivory Stock

    On June 21 the Philippines will destroy five tons of seized ivory, becoming the world's first ivory-consuming nation to destroy its national ivory ...

  • 665 pass Radiologic X-ray technologist licensure exams — PRC

    A total of 637 out of 1,122 passed the Radiologic Technologist Licensure Examination given this month, the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announced Tuesday.At the same time, the PRC also announced that 31 out of 138 passed the X-Ray Technologist Licensure Examination also given this ...

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