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  • DOJ mum on date of NBI teams travel to Taiwan

    Justice Secretary Leila de Lima on Wednesday said they are unlikely to reveal just yet when agents from the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) would be travelling to Taiwan to continue its probe on the death of a Taiwan fisherman allegedly caught fishing illegally in Philippine ...

  • Ex-poll exec questions intel funds for Comelec chief commissioners

    A former poll official on Wednesday questioned the P1.23 million intelligence funds allegedly given to the chairman and the commissioners of the Commission on Elections (Comelec).In a statement, Augusto "Gus" Lagman said he "didn't even know that the Comelec commissioners had that function.""Sometime in 2011, I received a check payable to me for P1 million, followed ...

  • Nancy Binay on her hubby her surname and daddys health

    In contrast with her evasiveness to the media during the campaign period, Senator-elect Nancy Binay is all over TV program these days, from news programs to fashion shows to late-night talk shows.In one of her recent TV appearances, the controversial daughter of Vice President Jejomar Binay guested on GMA News TV's "Tonight With Arnold Clavio" to have some small post-election talk ...

  • PAGASA No cyclone near PAR rain likely over Luzon and Mindanao

    Satellite Image at 7:30 a.m. Monday, 20 May 2013. | Weather Central Although there is still no cyclone near the Philippine area of responsibility, residents in parts of northern Luzon and Mindanao may expect rain on Wednesday, state weather forecasters said.PAGASA forecaster Bernie de Leon said the rain will come from a tail-end of a cold front affecting northern Luzon, while the inter-tropical ...

  • Philippines Officials Aim to Reduce Carangan Creek Pollution

    Trash traps made of fabricated steel have been installed by the Ecological Strengthening Through Environment Rehabilitation and Orientation (ESTERO) project of the Misamis University Community Extension Program (MUCEP) in Carangan Creek, Ozamiz ...

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Daughters of Darkness (Les lèvres rouges) [Blu-Ray]

Daughters of Darkness (Les lèvres rouges) [Blu-Ray]

A purposefully difficult-to-classify hybrid of European art-film austerity and borderline campy erotic-horror excess, Harry Kmels Daughters of Darkness is one of the most effective of the revisionist vampire films that emerged all over the continent in the 1960s ... ...

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  • PH thanks Taiwan for call to citizens not to harm Filipino workers

    MANILA, Philippines — In a sign of easing tensions, President Benigno Aquino III's expression of gratitude to Taiwan when it urged its citizens not to harm Filipinos was received well by the Taiwanese leaders, Malacaang said on Wednesday. After talking with his counterparts in Taiwan, Amadeo Perez, chair of the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (Meco), on Wednesday relayed the ...

  • Philippines investigation team on shooting incident to leave for Taiwan

    The Philippines will soon send an investigation team to Taiwan to gather evidence on the death of a Taiwanese fisherman killed by the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said Wednesday."The team will be leaving very soon," de Lima told reporters Wednesday, but she would not confirm when the team would exactly leave for Taipei, explaining that is because the ...

  • Ex-OIC mayor of Davao del Sur town killed in apparent robbery—police

    BANSALAN, Davao del Sur, Philippines - Unidentified armed men, in what initially appeared to be a robbery, killed a retired government official whose career started in 1986 when he was appointed this town's officer-in-charge mayor by the late president Corazon Aquino in the aftermath of the Edsa Revolution. But investigators said they were considering other angles in the slaying of Romulo ...

  • 4 Philippine UN peacekeepers captured by Syrian rebels released

    MANILA, May 12 (Xinhua) -- Four Philippine U.N. peacekeepers captured by Syrian rebels in the Golan Heights five days ago have been freed, Philippine government officials said on Sunday. They had been seized by the rebels at an observation post on the ceasefire line between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Tuesday. ...

  • Comelec to proclaim winning party-lists without announcing number of seats obtained

    The Commision on Elections (Comelec), sitting as the National Board of Canvassers, will proclaim leading party-list groups without announcing the number of seats they obtained.Poll chief Sixto Brillantes Jr. said Wednesday they arrived at this decision after hearing the manifestations of various groups appealing for an early proclamation."We will be proclaiming the parties, not the number ...

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