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  • Philippine president creates task force to improve business competitiveness

    Philippine President Benigno S. Aquino III has created an inter-agency task force that will help investors do business in the country.Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr. said Tuesday that Aquino signed Administrative Order No. 38, creating the Task Force on Ease of Doing Business (EODB Task Force) that will improve the country's global ranking in business competitiveness.The task force ...

  • PHL protests fresh Chinese incursions in West PHL Sea

    The Philippine government has protested latest Chinese incursions in areas within its exclusive economic zone in the West Philippine Sea and asked Beijing to respect Manila’s sovereignty over its waters.In a provocative move that could spike tensions anew between Manila and Beijing, two Chinese maritime surveillance ships and a warship were spotted off Ayungin Shoal within Philippine ...

  • Winning party-list groups known within the week — Brillantes

    Winners in the 2013 party-list race are expected to be announced within the week, Commission on Elections (Comelec) chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. said Tuesday."Possible tomorrow or Thursday or Friday at worse," Brillantes ...

  • Taiwan tourists cancel Philippines plans

    /enpproperty--> BORACAY, Philippines - Taiwan tourists to Boracay, a world-renowned resort in central Philippines, have started canceling hotel reservations since Taiwan issued an advisory against traveling to the country after Philippine Coast Guards killed a Taiwan fisherman. Percy Malonesio, head of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) to Kalibo International Airport ...

  • Philippine pivot in the South China Sea

    By Richard Javad Heydarian MANILA - After three years of inconclusive bilateral negotiations with China and a year of precarious diplomatic brinkmanship under Cambodia's chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the Philippines has sought new ways to resolve its territorial disputes in the South China Sea. Despite earlier hopes that China's leadership ...

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Kill Bill: Vol. 2

Kill Bill: Vol. 2

The second part of Quentin Tarantinos unjustly cleaved exploitation epic Kill Bill is as vastly different from the first as the first was from all the other films he had made up until that point. A grindhouse homage to chop-stocky ultraviolence and vengeance-fueled heroics, ... ...

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  • For Senator-elect JV Ejercito no bad blood between him and brother Jinggoy

    Incoming senator JV Ejercito on Tuesday said that despite turning down an offer from half-brother Senator Jinggoy Estrada to star in a political campaign with him, the senator-elect said he does not think Estrada harbors ill will towards ...

  • PNoy belies govt harassment on ZTE whistle-blower Lozada

    -- President Benigno Aquino III on Tuesday denied whistle-blower Rodolfo "Jun" Lozada Jr.'s accusation that the present administration is harassing him.Aquino said he has no power to dictate on Sandiganbayan anti-graft court to stop the graft cases against Lozada, who, in 2008, bared supposed anomalies in the national broadband network (NBN) deal signed by the administration of ...

  • PNoy rallies Navy says PHL will not be cowed by threats

    – Faced with an ongoing diplomatic row with Taiwan and a long-standing territorial dispute with China, President Benigno Aquino III on Tuesday rallied Navy troops here, saying the Philippines will not be cowed by threats including those from the outside."Sa ilalim ng ating agenda ng mabuting pamamahala, malinaw ang pahiwatig natin ngayon sa buong mundo: Ang sa Pilipinas ay sa ...

  • Purple Vote vs White Vote It was a tie

    The Reproductive Health (RH) law was an election campaign battleground, with the Purple Vote movement (pro) and the White Vote camp (anti) each vociferously backing their endorsed ...

  • New batch of Mancao photos also photoshopped De Lima says

    As far as Justice Secretary Leila de Lima is concerned, photos of fugitive murder suspect Cezar Mancao II showing him in various locations, including outside the Department of Justice (DOJ) main office on Padre Faura in Manila, are "obviously photoshopped."Interviewed on Tuesday, De Lima appealed to the media not to entertain Mancao, a suspect in the high-profile Dacer-Corbito double ...

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