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  • Oil firms hike fuel prices Tuesday morning

    Petrol Price said PTT is also raising prices of its products. The dzBB report said fuel prices are to go up by 35 centavos per liter and diesel to go up by 25 centavos per liter. The oil companies cited changes in the world prices of oil for the latest price adjustment, the dzBB report ...

  • Taiwanese youth express support for Pinoys after reports of harassment

    Taipei youths support OFWs . Taiwanese students hold placards along Chungsan Street in Taipei on Sunday, May 19, showing support for Filipino migrant workers who are being harassed by Taiwanese over the killing of a fisherman by a Philippine Coast Guard crew off Batanes last week. Peter Wan With media reports both in Taiwan and the Philippines showing the growing tensions between the two ...

  • Velardes party-list leads in Comelec count teachers group second

    Buhay Hayaang Yumabon (Buhay) party-list group topped the Commission on Elections (Comelec) first tally of the partial and official count, while Mikey Arroyo's former group Ang Galing Pinoy (AGP) got the least votes. Buhay, which was founded by El Shaddai leader Bro. Mike Velarde, describes itself on its website as an "organization that acknowledges the sanctity and value of human life ...

  • Philippine high school senior has 41 names

    A high school senior in the Philippines is drawing attention for his unusual name, which includes 40 first names and a surname. The latest senior to enroll at Urdaneta City National High School in Pangasinan is a 15-year-old student named Ratziel Timshel Ismail Zerubbabel Zabud Zimry Pike Blavatsky Philo Judaeus Polidorus Isurenus Morya Nylghara Rakoczy Kuthumi Krishnamurti Ashram Jerram Akasha ...

  • Saudi Arabia inks pact to protect Philippine maids

    MANILA--The Philippines said Monday it had signed a historic agreement with Saudi Arabia that would protect thousands of Filipina maids from being exploited in the Middle Eastern ...

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Vacancy [DVD]

Vacancy is a nastily effective, rough-edged gem of a horror-thriller. Like the sputtering neon sign evoked in its advertising campaign, you keep expecting that it will peter out, but somehow it stays burning right up until the unexpectedly abrupt, yet entirely appropriate ending ... ...

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  • Philippines Taiwan to cooperate in fisherman shooting investigation

    MANILA -- The Philippines said Monday that it would make "coordinated efforts" with Taiwan to look into the fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman but stopped short of a joint ...

  • Philippines Jan-Apr balance of payments posts USD1.8b surplus CB

    (MENAFN) The Philippines central bank said that during the January-April period, the country's balance of payments (BOP) recorded a surplus of USD1.8 billion, reported Xinhua News.Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said that the figure exceeds half of the USD3-billion forecast for the current year.In April alone, the BOP surplus reached USD274 million, up from a deficit of USD74 million ...

  • PNoy questions MECO execs supposed joint-probe offer to Taiwan

    President Benigno Aquino III on Monday questioned the supposed offer made by the Philippines' de facto envoy to Taiwan to his counterparts in Taipei for a joint probe into the death of a Taiwanese fisherman earlier this ...

  • PCSO 2 bettors share P46.457M Megalotto jackpot

    Two bettors are P23.2 million richer after winning the jackpot of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office's Megalotto 6/45 draw Monday ...

  • Tension with Taiwan could be over before end of May - MECO chief

    Citing a decline in instances of harassment against Filipinos in Taiwan, the head of the Manila Economic and Cultural Office on Monday said the tension between the Philippines and Taiwan over the fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman last May 9 could be over before the end of ...

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