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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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True Grit (2010) [Blu-Ray]

True Grit (2010) [Blu-Ray]

One of the primary pleasures of Joel and Ethan Coens career over the past three decades is not confined to the individual films themselves (although more than half of them stand as some of the best American cinema of their era), but in their relation to each other. Never content to repea ... ...

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  • UP prof Purple Vote White Vote had no bearing on election results

    The days leading up to the May 13 polls saw two groups battling it out to bestow support on specific candidates, based solely on the Reproductive Health (RH) law issue. The Purple Vote, or the pro-RH group, movement endorsed seven candidates, while the White Vote comprised of Catholic Church organizations against the law, backed 10. With the results of the elections almost all in, however, a UP ...

  • 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. ...

  • DepEd allows 260 schools to raise tuition

    DepEd Assistant Secretary Toni Umali told Unang Balita host Arnold Clavio Tuesday morning that the tuition hike for 182 private and elementary schools and 78 private high schools in Metro Manila were approved. Umali said that the schools conducted a consultation with the parents of their students before the tuition hike application was submitted to DepEd. "'Yung konsultasyon doon ...

  • Philippine Lower House to push charter change

    With a firmer grip on Congress, Philippine President Benigno Aquino III is expected to push for changes in foreign equity restrictions to attract more capital in order to create more jobs and reduce poverty incidence. But his political leaders are divided on how to initiate the changes.On one hand, Quezon City Rep. Feliciano Belmonte Jr., who is expected to retain the speakership, prefers ...

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