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  • Drowning a public health issue like TB malaria — group

    Drowning has become a public health issue in the Philippines especially among minors that it should be treated "like tuberculosis and malaria" by the government, the head of a water safety and lifesaving awareness group said Wednesday.Unlike diseases which can be avoided through vaccination or medicine, drowning can be prevented mainly through "survival swimming," or the ...

  • Philippines Golan peacekeepers to stay for now

    Philippines troops at the Quneitra crossing between Syria and the Israeli annexed Golan Heights last week. The Philippines Wednesday said it would keep its peacekeepers in the Golan Heights until at least August, and may stay longer if the United Nations increased security ...

  • U.N. U.S. ask Filipinos not to leave Golan Heights

    Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert Del Rosario talks about three big issues involving the Philippines, including the presence of the Philippine contingent to the UN peacekeeping forces at the Golan Heights during a news conference Wednesday June 19, 2013 in Manila, Philippines. (AP Photo/Bullit ...

  • UN US warn of maximum volatility in Golan Heights if Philippine peacekeepers withdraw

    MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines' top diplomat says U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry have appealed to Manila not to withdraw more than 300 Filipino peacekeepers from the Golan Heights to avoid "maximum volatility" in the restive Middle East region. Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said Wednesday the diplomats made the appeal to ...

  • NBI rescues kidnapped OFW in Cebu 1 suspect killed 1 arrested

    MANILA, Philippines--A member of a kidnapping group was killed and one of his accomplices was arrested in a bloody rescue of an abducted overseas Filipino worker in Talisay, Cebu by the National Bureau of Investigation. NBI Director Nonnatus Rojas on Wednesday said the fatality was Wane B. Tiano, a member of a kidnapping gang in the province. Ronelo Martel Roble, 47, from Kalinaw 2, San ...

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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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  • PNP to procure 2500 vehicles for P2 billion — Roxas

    With an "unprecedented" budget of P2 billion, the Philippine National Police (PNP) will procure some 2,500 vehicles that will be distributed to police offices all over the country, Interior Secretary Mar Roxas II announced Wednesday."This is the first time nagkaroon ng ganitong kalaking pagbili," Roxas said at a press briefing in Camp Crame. "Unprecedented itong P2 ...

  • Govt needs 23 years to complete NCR flood control plan

    The government needs 23 years to complete its P351-billion master plan to solve the perennial flooding in Metro Manila, but short-term steps are being undertaken to address the problem, Cabinet officials said Wednesday. At a press briefing in Malacañang, Public Works Secretary Rogelio Singson explained that the full implementation of the flood control plan will only be realized in 2035 ...

  • Philippines sends fresh troops to disputed shoal guarded by Chinese ships in new standoff

    MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines has deployed a fresh batch of marines and supplies to a shoal in the disputed South China Sea, where a Chinese warship and surveillance vessels appeared last month and triggered a new standoff in the strategic waters, the Philippine defence secretary said Wednesday. The new contingent of Filipino marines replaced troops at the Second Thomas Shoal, where the ...

  • 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 ...

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