MANILA, Philippines – Liberal Party presidential candidate Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino has arrested a slide in support while his nearest rival, Manual "Manny" Villar of the Nacionalista Party, lost ground ahead of elections on May 10, an opinion poll showed on Monday.
The Businessworld-Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey, conducted on March 19-22 before the start of campaigning for Congress a
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MOSCOW – Two female suicide bombers blew themselves up Monday in twin attacks on Moscow subway stations jam-packed with rush-hour passengers, killing at least 38 people and wounding more than 60, officials said. They blamed the carnage on rebels from the Caucasus region.
The blasts come six years after Islamic separatists from the southern Russian region carried out a pair of deadly Moscow subway strikes and rais
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Before the controversial New York dinner where they spent $20,000, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and her entourage dined on “lobster, steak and fine wines” in Washington and spent $15,000 for the meal, a Washington Post blog reported on Wednesday.
It also said an “unidentified woman opened a handbag stuffed with cash” and paid for the tab. The information came out in a popular blog calle
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MANILA – The Philippines has regressed in key areas of governance over the past ten years, data from the World Bank showed. The multilateral lender’s Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI), a research project initiated in the late 1990s, revealed that the country’s performance worsened last year compared to 1998 in five out of six dimensions of governance.
These areas include voice and accountabi
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The three-story house in Pasig City was called "Malacañang," a notorious shabu den, its moniker perhaps a symbol of the drug’s status in the criminal world.
Even though the house’s alleged owner has been in the custody of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) for over two years, this Malacañang continued to operate.
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GENEVA — The World Health Organization told its member nations it was declaring a swine flu pandemic Thursday — the first global flu epidemic in 41 years — as infections climbed in the United States, Europe, Australia, South America and elsewhere.
WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl stressed, however, that "Phase 6 doesn’t mean anything concerning severity, it is concerning global spread. . . . Pandemic
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An Indonesian military plane has crashed, killing at least 97 people. As Daniel Schearf reports from
The military transport plane crashed into homes near an air force base Wednesday morning as it was coming in for a landing.
Over one hundred military personnel and their families were on board the Hercules C-130 plane when it went down in an area of East Java.
Witnesses reported seeing parts of the plane fa
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The virus that delayed the showing of “Wolverine" in Mexico and canceled the trip of the Japanese women’s football team to the US and the soccer tourney in Malaysia has inched closer to the Philippines.
On Tuesday, Thailand reported its first case of the dreaded Influenza A(H1N1) infection. It is the first country in Southeast Asia – 1,377 miles from the Philippines – that contracted the disease.
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The suspected leader of a radical Islamist group linked to the 2002 Bali bombings has been arrested 15 months after he escaped from a high security prison in Singapore, the government said on Friday.
Mas Selamat Kastari was the alleged mastermind of a plot to hijack a plane and crash it into Singapore’s Changi Airport.
Singapore authorities have also accused him of planning several truck bomb attacks acros
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Firefighters wary of unpredictable "sundowner" winds fought on Thursday to keep a wildfire that destroyed dozens of multimillion-dollar homes from burning through the city of Santa Barbara.
Although there were no further reports on Thursday of houses lost in the foothills above Santa Barbara, crews were on alert because the hot, dry winds notoriously pick up speed at sunset. Officials said about 3,500 h
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Princess Snell: Princess Tinkerbell Cristina Marjorie Pedere Snell, better known simply as Princess Snell (born on April 14, 1992 in Pacita, Laguna, Philippines), is a Filip...
Eduardo Cojuangco, Jr.:
Eduardo Murphy Cojuangco, Jr. (born June 10, 1935), also known as Danding Cojuangco, is the chairman of San Miguel Corporation, the largest food and beverage ...
