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  • Leni Robredo to first focus on LGU-related laws as congresswoman

    Congresswoman-elect Leni Robredo said she plans to continue initiatives her late husband, the late Interior Sec. Jesse, started, especially with regard to legislation on local government units ...

  • Dan Browns Inferno Upsets Philippines

    Dan Brown's description of Manila as "the gates of hell" in his new novel Inferno has provoked anger in the Philippines. The plot of his latest work includes a character who is visiting the capital, and while doing so is shocked by the poverty, crime and sex trade. Brown's vivid description of the city has incurred an angry response from the Philippines, where the book ...

  • Pope Francis may visit Philippines in 2016—CBCP

    Pope Francis. AP FILE PHOTO MANILA, Philippines -- The Philippines may just be on Pope Francis' travel itinerary in 2016, the head of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) said on Thursday. Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma, CBCP president, said Church officials were hoping Pope Francis would be able to visit in January 2016 after the Vatican asked that the date for a major ...

  • Woman’s body dumped on edge of cliff near Cebu City

    CEBU CITY — The body of a still unidentified woman was dumped into a cliff by two men early Thursday along the Transcentral Highway in Balamban town, about 64 kilometers west of this city. The woman, believed to be in her mid-20s with blond hair and fair complexion, had what appeared to be a gunshot wound on her left chest. Half of her body was covered by an overall with the name of the ...

  • 18000 PCOS machines suffered transmission woes — Brillantes

    Almost a quarter of the total number of the vote-counting machines used in the recently concluded elections showed transmission problems, the Philippines' top poll official admitted Thursday.According to Commission on Elections (Comelec) chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr., about 18,000 of the 78,000 Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines - or 23 percent - had transmission problems due to ...

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Reefer Madness (aka Tell Your Children) [DVD]

Reefer Madness (aka Tell Your Children) [DVD]

When it was first released in 1936, Reefer Madness, originally known as Tell Your Children and The Burning Question, was intended to serve as a warning against the mortal dangers of using of marijuana, which in the 1930s was the most feared drug in the country. The ... ...

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  • PHL denies report Taiwan barred NBI team from country

    Both Justice Secretary Leila de Lima and the head of the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (MECO) have denied reports that Taiwan's Ministry of Justice has prevented Philippine investigators from going to Taiwan to probe the death of a fisherman off Balintang Island in northern ...

  • 2 Cebu City girls rescued from working as GRO in Pampanga bar

    MANILA, Philippines -- Four girls, including a minor, were rescued by the National Bureau of Investigation from being forced to work as guest relations officer in a bar in Pampanga. The recruiter, who was arrested and charged with human trafficking, was identified in the NBI report as Herminigilda Hermosa Maalac, 49, of Habilan, Floridablanca, Pampanga. Agents of the NBI Central Luzon Regional ...

  • Gazmin PHL to defend territory in disputed waters to the last soldier standing

    The Philippines vowed Thursday to fight China "to the last man standing," as a Chinese warship patrolled around a remote reef occupied by a handful of Marines in disputed waters. In the latest flare-up over competing claims to parts of the South China Sea, the Philippines this week denounced the "provocative and illegal presence" of the warship and a fleet of Chinese fishing ...

  • Japan backs PHL arbitration initiative vs China

    MANILA – Japan on Thursday expressed its full support to the Philippines’ decision to bring its territorial disputes with China in the South China Sea before a United Nations arbitration tribunal, underscoring the need to adhere to international law to preserve regional peace and ...

  • Pacquiao gets richer in 2012 still wealthiest congressman

    Despite two consecutive defeats in the boxing ring last year, Sarangani Rep. Manny Pacquiao grew richer in 2012, with a net worth of more than of P1.7 billion -- making him the lone billionaire and still the wealthiest member of the House of Representatives. Pacquiao, whose net worth was at P1.3 billion in 2011, had real properties worth P1.03 billion, personal properties worth P990 million and ...

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