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popular Smartmatic: We own PCOS rights Young girl’s kin saddled with hospital bills Retired pope wanted ‘Father Benedict’ name—report List of cancelled flights on December 7, 2014 due to Ruby— Naia-Miaa Technical glitch disrupts MRT operations Former maid tells court of ‘torture’ by Hong Kong employers China slams PH over South China Sea case PH stocks: Consolidation seen videos Swiss escapes from Abu Sayyaf captors Behind the scene with BTS The ‘maria clara’ reborn in ‘Face-Off’ Ruby batters Sorsogon Sorsogon implements forced evacuation amid storm surge ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines – Authorities on Monday said they have started investigating 18 Chinese fishing vessels that entered Philippine waters reportedly to seek shelter at the height of Typhoon Ruby. The fishing vessels were spotted and intercepted near Sacol Island around 1 p.m. Customs Security Chief Sammy Labay said that they were investigating possible violations after the vessels entered Philippine seas without informing competent authority. A ship officer reportedly told authorities that the vessels came from Indonesia and were on their way to China when they decided to seek shelter in southern Philippines to avoid typhoon Ruby (Hagupit), which had lost some of its strength and has been re-classified as a tropical storm. Labay said they had difficulties communicating with the Chinese due to language barrier. He said they also wanted to know where the tons of fish found on the vessels were caught. The inspection on the vessels was done by the Philippine Navy, Bureau of Customs, Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, Read More …

March 24, 2014 – Able Seaman Januario Callos keeps watch on the starboard bridge-wing of HMAS Success during the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. The supply ship will use visual lookouts and is equipped with radar and communications equipment to support a coordinated search with other assets within the area. With a displacement of 18 thousand tonnes and carrying a crew of 218, HMAS Success is one of the RAN’s largest vessels, capable of providing a valuable surface search, investigation and recovery capability to support the ADF air operations. Photo: LSIS James Whittle aboard HMAS Success/Commonwealth of Australia, Department of Defence MANILA (Mabuhay) – Nine Filipinos were detained in Sabah Thursday after they were caught in an alleged attempt to smuggle fuel, a Malaysian news site reported Friday. The nine were manning a cargo boat with fuel products when they were intercepted off the east coast of Sandakan, Malaysia’s The Star Online reported. The nine Filipinos were described as between 24 and 45 years old. They were taken back to Sandakan and detained for further investigation. At the time, the vessel was loaded with nine cooking gas cylinders and 17,300 liters of petrol. It was noticed by a Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency patrol 10 a.m. MMEA District 17 enforcement head Maritime Captain A. Razak Abdul Rahman said the nine crewmembers had no travel documents. He also said they found no documents allowing the transport of the items. (MNS)

Girlie Garcia-Lorenzo, Kythe Foundation’s executive director; Milette Belen, Telus International Philippines’ CSR and Community Board manager; Karen Rivera, Kythe Foundation’s partner relations manager; and Phoebe Carrera, Telus International Philippines’ CSR officer MANILA, Philippines – Every child has the right to learn, play and grow, even those confined to hospitals. Telus International Philippines (TIP) teamed up with the Kythe Foundation for a day of shared learning, playing and growing with children currently under the care of the Philippine Children’s Medical Center in Quezon City. A group of TIP team member volunteers were given the opportunity to interact with the kids in a safe and nurturing environment, where they got to know one another, played games together, and learned from each other, thanks to a P280,000 / CDN $7,110 donation to the Kythe Foundation from the TIP Community Board.  The Kythe Foundation, led by executive director Girlie Garcia-Lorenzo, holds events like this to give confined children a chance to have fun and celebrate, while at the same time shedding light on the issues of improving the quality of life of hospitalized children with cancer and other chronic illnesses. TIP supports Kythe’s commitment to understanding what children go through at hospitals and its mission to identify and respond to the needs of child-patients in holistic ways. The TIP Community Board is an instrumental part of the company’s “we give where we live” community investment strategy. TIP’s Community Board is comprised of distinguished community leaders and local Telus team members who have strong connections within the community, business and leadership expertise, and a great sense of compassion and willingness to make a Read More …

MANILA, Philippines – It seems to me very apt that you have chosen to make Apolinario Mabini the inspiration for this year’s conference. I still remember a story about him that I heard from my history teacher at UP, the distinguished historian Teodoro Agoncillo. Agoncillo recounted how the president of the then budding Philippine Republic, Emilio Aguinaldo, referred to his newfound adviser, Apo Mabini, the question of granting agricultural lands in Pampanga to a long-time ally and general of the revolutionary army. Mabini, taken aback, protested, “What will the people say if we who are in power abuse it for our own benefit?” It is interesting that this moral issue already had to be confronted even as the nation was still being born. Even more interesting is that a Filipino leader of that period had unhesitatingly produced the correct response to that moral and ethical question. The land-seeking general was not given the land he coveted. Sadly, though, that is only part of that story. Shortly afterward, despite vigorous opposition from the morally scrupulous Mabini, the moneyed and propertied class in the Malolos Congress — who Agoncillo picturesquely described in an essay as “men who conjugated the verb ‘to serve’ to mean ‘to grasp’” — managed to effectively capture government by giving themselves strong discretionary powers over public funds and the allocation of public resources. The consequences of Mabini’s lost battle clearly hounds us today. Tremendous discretionary power over public funds, public resources, and public policies is vested in those Read More …

THE Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)-Davao reported that Davao Region registered a total of P11.19 billion in new investments from January to September this year Based on the data gathered by the agency from the Board of Investments (BOI), these investments are mostly into real estate, cooling systems, manufacturing, transportation, and agriculture. The bulk of these investments came from the two big ticket projects in transportation with a combined investment of P8.4 billion, the DTI said. One is the P5.72 billion seaport and container yard of the Hijo International Port Services Inc. (HIPSI) in Tagum City, Davao del Norte that has a capacity of 858 ground slots of containerized cargo and 450,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) per year. The other is the P2.65 billion Davao International Container Terminal (DICT) of the San Vicente Terminal and Brokerage Services Inc. in Panabo City that has a capacity of 400,000 40-foot equivalent unit (FEU) per year. The second largest bulk of investments are in real estate with a combined investment of P1.24 billion. The company with the largest real estate investment is 8990 Housing Development with three projects at P901.38 million. The company’s investment are the P521.73 million 1,341 units expansion of Deca Homes Resort Residences Phase 9 in Tugbok, Davao City; P234.65 million 544 unit Deca Homes Indangan Phase 1 in Buhangin, Davao City; and the P145 million 207 unit expansion of Deca Homes Resort Residences Phase 12 in Tugbok, Davao City. Other real estate investments in the region are the Read More …