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  • High School State Swimming Championships CIF Los Angeles City

    LOS ANGELES, California, May 22. THE Palisades Charter Dolphins swept the team titles at the CIF-Los Angeles City High School Swimming and Diving Championships May 14-17. Prelims were held May 14 and finals were conducted May 17, both at East Los Angeles College. A separate diving competition was held May 15 at L.A. Valley College.GirlsThe Dolphins claimed their fourth straight title in ...

  • PAGASA Rain over northern Luzon humid weather over NCR

    Rain brought by the diffused tail-end of a cold front may affect parts of Northern Luzon Thursday, while Metro Manila and other parts of the country may have to continue enduring humid weather, state weather forecasters said. PAGASA forecaster Glaiza Escollar also said their meteorological models indicate there may be no tropical cyclone for this month. "(Sa Metro Manila), asahan na rin ang ...

  • Filipino Workers to Get More Rights in Saudi Arabia

    story on domestic workers in the U.S. , as part of our Global Nation coverage. Well, there are more than half a million Filipinos working in Saudi Arabia and until this week they had very few protections. The governments of Saudi Arabia and the Philippines have now signed an agreement giving Filipino workers more rights – specifically Filipino household service workers. Anchor Marco ...

  • Philippines weighs move on China incursion

    AFP FILE PHOTO MANILA, Philippines--The Philippines is weighing what course of action to take in the wake of the latest Chinese incursion in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) even as the country asserted its capability to defend its exclusive economic zone (EEZ). The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Wednesday that it was already coordinating with the Philippine Coast Guard ...

  • Catholic Church in Philippines Holds Mass in Malls

    Early on a Sunday morning, people are already streaming into a massive shopping mall in Manila. The seven-story Robinsons Place is a temple of consumerism. It houses about 350 stores, including gun shops, dental offices, massage parlors, and a Kenny Rogers Roaster. The music and the crowds can be a little overwhelming after a while. But up on the fourth floor, next to the Cineplex and a barber ...

Movie Review

Blade

Blade

"Blade," a bloody, nightmarish, horror comic book of a movie, features a vampire underworld organized like the Mafia. Run by twelve elders who are of "pure blood"--meaning they were born vampires rather than being turned by a bite on the neck--they have no interest in taking over the world. Instead, they maintain their ancient power base within the existing structures of human civilization. In ot ... ...

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  • Filipino fishermen pay price of sea disputes

    Filipino boys carry a container with fish from a boat in the coastal town of Infanta, Pangasinan province, in this May 7, 2013, photo. Since China took control of the Scarborough Shoal last year, Filipino fishermen say Chinese maritime surveillance ships have shooed them from the disputed waters in the South China Sea (West Philippine Sea) and roped off the entrance to the vast lagoon that had ...

  • Senate committee OKs Filipino Veterans Family Reunification amendment

    WASHINGTON, D.C.-Filipino World War II veterans who have waited for years to reunite with their adult children have something to cheer about today. The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved an amendment introduced by U.S. Sen. Maize Hirono (D-HI) that would fast track these children's approved visa applications. "We thank Sen. Hirono for pushing this amendment through so ...

  • Philippine activity on Ren’ai Reef draws Chinese caution

    Chinese navy and marine surveillance forces are closely monitoring activities conducted by the Philippines on a vessel stranded on the Ren'ai Reef in the South China Sea, a source close to the matter told the Global Times.The Philippines filed a protest with the Chinese embassy in Manila Tuesday that the recent presence of a Chinese warship and two marine surveillance vessels near the reef ...

  • Chicken mangosteen curry papaya salad soft-shell crabs–Thai cuisine reworked for the Filipino palate

    CLASSIC Chicken Satay with peanut sauce and cucumber relish While researching on Thai cuisine in Bangkok, executive chef Cheryl Pineda observed that the locals liked to mix their viands and chicken with mangosteen. That inspired her to create her version of the chicken mangosteen curry. The extract of the mangosteen's purple rind is infused in the curry sauce. This gives the chicken ...

  • Drilon seeking colleagues support for Senate presidency

    Senator Franklin Drilon on Wednesday admitted to making the rounds among his fellow senators to seek help for the Senate presidency. Drilon said President Benigno Aquino III asked him "how things are" at the Senate during a meeting in a private office on Wednesday afternoon. "I said, well, we're talking to the senators. We are seeking their support," the senator said ...

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