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  • Luzon names Israel squad for home finals

    "This is a hard day for me," said coach Guy Luzon after naming his final 23-man squad for this summer's UEFA European Under-21 Championship on home ...

  • Business confidence in Philippines reaches new heights

    Philippines has soared to an all-time high after the country was awarded investment grade credit ratings. The central bank said the overall confidence index rose 54.9 per cent from the first quarter's 41.5 per cent. "This is the highest reading since the start of the nationwide survey in the fourth quarter of 2006," said the central bank. The confidence index is the percentage ...

  • Carpio PHL should appeal Chinas 9-dash Rule to world opinion

    Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio has said that even if the Philippines wins in the arbitral dispute it has lodged against China on the West Philippine Sea, the decision would most likely go unenforced. In a speech he delivered before graduating law students of the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, Carpio noted that under the United Nations Charter, a winning state in a ...

  • Report Domination of LP coalition in senate race a personal victory for PNoy

    The domination of the administration Liberal Party-led coalition in the 2013 midterm senatorial election was a "personal" victory for President Benigno S.C. Aquino, a television report on Thursday ...

  • Ex-Pangasinan mayor treasurer get up to 18 years for malversation

    A former mayor in Pangasinan province and his co-accused were sentenced to 10-18 years imprisonment after they were found guilty of malversation of public funds by the Sandiganbayan First Division on Thursday.The case against Marius Ladio, former mayor of Layug town, and Virgilio Arquero, OIC municipal treasurer, stemmed from the unaccounted P787,700 government money that was illegally released ...

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The Woman in Black

The Woman in Black

The Woman in Black is a doggedly old-fashioned Gothic chiller, filled with dank rooms, creepy old toys, flickering candles, and miles of gray mist. There are strange sounds in the night, glimpses of shadowy figures in mirrors and windows, and furniture that moves on its ow ... ...

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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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