SLS AMG GT Final Edition: The ultimate super sports car

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Dec 062013
 
SLS AMG GT Final Edition: The ultimate super sports car

SLS AMG GT Final Edition The grand finale: The SLS AMG GT FINAL EDITION brings an impressive era to an end in exclusive style. The FINAL EDITION model, built in a limited run of just 350 units globally, represents the last oppor-tunity for customers to order a SLS AMG GT – while at the same time re-flecting the unrivalled success story and unique scope offered by the first vehicle to be completely built by Mercedes-AMG. The super sports car, with its 583 hp AMG 6.3 -liter V8 front -mid engine, offers a fascinating combination of truly exceptional design and equipment features while exclusively developed optional Cup tires enhance its dynamic performance. The SLS AMG GT Final Edition is celebrating its twin world premiere at the Los Angeles Auto Show and the Tokyo Motor Show (both: November 20 to December 1, 2013). The market launch will begin in March 2014 and the super sports car will be available as either a Coupé or a Roadster and once 350 units have been built, production of the SLS AMG model series will come to an end. Tobias Moers, Chairman of the Board of Management of Mercedes-AMG GmbH: “As the first car to be completely developed by AMG, the SLS AMG marked the beginning of a new era for our company. And now, in the form of the SLS AMG GT Final Edition, we are offering our customers one final and extremely attractive variant of our super sports car. With its numerous carbon fiber-look Read More …

President Aquino welcomes Myanmar President Thein Sein in Malacanang Palace

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Dec 062013
 
President Aquino welcomes Myanmar President Thein Sein in Malacanang Palace

His Excellency U Thein Sein, President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar,is being escorted by Department of Agriculture Sec.Proceso Alcala during the wreath-laying ceremony at the Rizal Monument in Manila on Thursday, the 2nd day of his state visit to the Philippines. (MNS photo) MANILA, Dec 5 (Mabuhay) –President Benigno S. Aquino III welcomed President Thein Sein of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar during arrival honors in Malacañang Palace on Thursday. A 21-gun salute was rendered in honor of the visiting head of state during the playing of the national anthems of both countries at 10 a.m. at the Malacañang grounds. After the arrival ceremonies, the President ushered President Thein Sein to the traditional signing of the Palace Guest Book before proceeding to the Music Room. President Thein Sein arrived in Manila on Wednesday for a three-day state visit. The Myanmar President first went to Rizal Park in Manila for the wreath-laying rites at the foot of the monument of the national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal, before proceeding to Malacanang Palace. Joining the President in welcoming the visiting head of state in Malacanang Palace were Cabinet Secretary Jose Rene Almendras, Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima, Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert F. del Rosario, Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala, Energy Secretary Carlos Jericho Petilla, Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Herminio “Sonny” Coloma Jr., and Presidential Management Staff head Secretary Julia Abad, among others. Upon the invitation of President Aquino, President Thein Sein arrived here to hold bilateral talks in Malacanang Read More …

Farmers in Haiti raise $150 for Filipino farmers displaced by typhoon Haiyan

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Dec 062013
 
Farmers in Haiti raise $150 for Filipino farmers displaced by typhoon Haiyan

Haiti Farmers Donation. Eliette Pierre (in white shirt) and members of the Smallholder Farmers Alliance in Gonaives, Haiti, present a check for $150 representing their assistance for farmers in the Philippines displaced by Typhoon Haiyan. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Knowing how difficult it is to recover from a cataclysm, small farmers in Haiti pooled together what little they had to raise $150 for fellow farmers in the Philippines who were among the more than 10 million Filipinos displaced recently by Typhoon Haiyan. In his report to Ambassador Jose L. Cuisia, Jr., the Philippine Honorary Consul in Haiti, Fitzgerald Brandt, said the kindhearted farmers belong to the Smallholder Farmers Alliance based in Gonaives in the northern part of Haiti who were themselves victims of Hurricane Sandy last year. “These farmers are very poor, but the gesture from country to country, from farmer to farmer, from human to human, is 1,000,000 times stronger than the actual amount of the transaction,” Honorary Consul Brandt said.  “In this planet full of not so good news, such gestures are priceless.” Ambassador Cuisia said Filipino farmers were badly affected by Typhoon Haiyan, which dealt more than P17 billion in losses to the agriculture sector during its violent rampage across the Central Philippines last month. “The Filipino people truly appreciate the kind gesture of farmers in Haiti who went out of their way to extend a helping hand to their fellow farmers in the Philippines,” said Ambassador Cuisia. “Our people will always remember this.” The President and Co-Founder Read More …

Former boat people remember kindness of Filipinos after Vietnam war, donate $400,000 for typhoon relief efforts

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Dec 062013
 
Former boat people remember kindness of Filipinos after Vietnam war, donate $400,000 for typhoon relief efforts

Donation from Vietnamese-Americans. Ambassador John Maisto, President of the US-Philippines Society, receives a check for $200,000 from Dieu Quyen Nguyen, Executive Director of the Ben Em Dang Co Ta Foundation. The amount was raised by members of the Vietnamese-American Community in the Metropolitan Washington, D.C. area for typhoon victims in the Philippines. Witnessing the turnover, which took place at the Philippine Embassy on 2 December, is Ambassador Jose L. Cuisia, Jr. Other photo shows a poster expressing solidarity with typhoon victims from the Thang Long Vietnamese Language School in the Metropolitan Washington D.C. area was presented to Ambassador Jose L. Cuisia, Jr. during the call by Vietnamese-American Community leaders on 2 December. (Philippine Embassy Photo by Majalya Fernando) WASHINGTON, D.C. – More than three decades after the Philippines opened its doors to them, it was the turn of former refugees from Vietnam to return the favor – this time by donating more than P19 million to support relief efforts for victims of Typhoon Haiyan. On Monday, representatives of the Vietnamese Community visited the Philippine Embassy to extend their sympathies to the Filipino people and turn over the initial $440,554 that they were able to raise for the benefit of the more than 10 million affected by the typhoon. “This is a very touching gesture from a people who said they never forgot how they were treated kindly by Filipinos who instead of pushing them back to sea, even pulled their boats ashore to help them,” Ambassador Jose L. Cuisia, Jr. Read More …

13-year-old Taiwanese-American school girl helps raise $17,430 for typhoon victims

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Dec 062013
 
13-year-old Taiwanese-American school girl helps raise $17,430 for typhoon victims

Taiwainese-American Donation. Ambassador Jose L. Cuisia, Jr. is presented with the symbolic check donation for typhoon victims from the Taiwanese-American Community in the Metropolitan Washington D.C. area by 13-year-old MeiJade Hsu and Mark Kao of the Formosan Association for Public Affairs. Photo: Majalya Fernando, Philippine Embassy WASHINGTON, D.C. – A few days after Typhoon Haiyan wrought unimaginable havoc in the Philippines, 13-year-old MeiJade Hsu made an impassioned appeal to her compatriots in the Taiwanese-American Community for them to lend a helping hand. MeiJade’s call did not go unheeded and on Monday, the eighth grader from Maryland visited the Philippine Embassy to personally turn over to Ambassador Jose L. Cuisia, Jr., a check for $17,430 representing the amount she helped raise for typhoon victims in the Central Philippines. “A few weeks ago when Super Typhoon Haiyan smashed into the Philippines, I saw so many images of total destruction on the news,” MeiJade told Ambassador Cuisia. “I was so shocked most when I saw that many of those images were of children without homes or food.” MeiJade said she decided to help by campaigning in her own local Taiwanese American Community so that they could all help and donate together. On 16 November, MeiJade made an emotional appeal for donations for typhoon victims during the annual Thanksgiving banquet of the Taiwanese Association of America-Greater Washington Chapter in Rockville, Maryland. She came prepared with empty letter envelopes. “Here in the capital of the US, where many people of all ethnicities have all they want and never experience Read More …

Binay condemns Yemen attack as ‘senseless act’

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Dec 062013
 
Binay condemns Yemen attack as ‘senseless act’

By Matikas SantosINQUIRER.net 4:10 pm | Friday, December 6th, 2013 Vice President Jejomar Binay. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO MANILA, Philippines—Vice President Jejomar Binay condemned as a “senseless act” the suicide bomb attack in Yemen capital of Sana’a that left 52 people killed, including seven Filipinos. “I condemn the bombing in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa. It was a senseless act that has no place in the modern world,” Binay said in a statement Friday. “I hope the Yemeni government will make sure that the families of the bombing casualties are extended all possible assistance they will be needing, particularly in the recovery and repatriation of the victims,” he said. The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said that one Filipino doctor and six medical workers were among the casualties, while 11 other Filipinos were injured. Binay, who is the presidential adviser on overseas Filipino workers concerns, said that the families of the victims will be given help from the Philippine government. DFA spokesman Raul Hernandez likewise condemned the attack calling it a “barbaric act.” “We condemn this senseless and barbaric act and we call on the Yemeni government to bring the masterminds to justice and to take appropriate measures to ensure the safety of Filipinos and other foreigners in Yemen,” he said. There are some 1,000 Filipino workers in Yemen. Manila has raised crisis alert level 1 in the Arab state, advising Filipinos there to take all necessary precautions to ensure their personal safety, Hernandez said. “We are still doing a thorough assessment Read More …

Mom puts up bounty for missing daughter in Tacloban

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Dec 062013
 
Mom puts up bounty for missing daughter in Tacloban

Photo of missing 9-year-old Kassandra Mae Villanueva posted on her mother’s Facebook account on November 14. Her mother, Jella Yu, is putting up a P20,000 bounty for Kassandra, who went missing after Supertyphoon Yolanda struck their house in Tacloban City last November 8. MANILA, Philippines— “I know how to make  bubble. I can swim a little.” This  was  nine-year-old Kassandra Mae Yu-Villanueva’s last message to her mother on Facebook  a day before she disappeared when  Supertyphoon “Yolanda” (Haiyan) struck Leyte on November 8. Still missing almost a month after, her mother Jella Yu has now come to terms that Kassandra might have already  joined her  younger  sister, Shamel Anne Jella Yu, who perished  from the typhoon. All Jella wants now is to  find  Kassandra’s  body. The 34-year-old mother, who is working in Abu Dhabi, is putting up a P20,000 bounty for those who can  find  her eldest daughter. “We also distributed pictures  of my daughter in Tacloban. I also put up a reward to whoever can find  her body. Hope you can help me  spread  the  pictures of my daughter  please,” Jella’s status on Facebook read. From Abu Dhabi, Jella travelled 24 hours to Manila and then to Cebu before she could finally  reach  Tacloban City,  one of  the areas severely hit  by  the  typhoon, to personally look for  her two daughters, whom she  left under the care of her elder sister, Jenny, and their  67-year-old mother Salome. Jella said her mother and other relatives  also perished from the  typhoon. Mother, Read More …

Jordanian journalist expected back in Manila–PNP

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Dec 062013
 
Jordanian journalist expected back in Manila–PNP

By Julliane Love de JesusINQUIRER.net 2:05 pm | Friday, December 6th, 2013 Veteran Middle Eastern TV reporter Baker Atyani looks at his X-ray record as he undergoes medical check-up following his release from one-and-a-half years of captivity in Jolo, the capital of the island province of Sulu in Southern Philippines late Wednesday Dec.4, 2013. (AP Photo/Nickee Butlangan) MANILA, Philippines–The Jordanian journalist who escaped his Abu Sayyaf captors is expected back in Manila later this Friday, the Philippine National Police said Friday. He’s on his way here,” Chief Superintendent Noel delos Reyes of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao told a media briefing. Baker Atyani is expected to be brought to the Philippine National Police Anti-Kidnapping Group office upon his arrival. PNP spokesperson Reuben Theodore Sindac added that the Jordanian journalist may arrive at the PNP headquarters in Camp Crame in Quezon City between 3 and 4 p.m.After 18 months in captivity, Atyani escaped from the Abu Sayyaf camp in Patikul, Sulu on Wednesday. Follow Us Recent Stories: Complete stories on our Digital Edition newsstand for tablets, netbooks and mobile phones; 14-issue free trial. About to step out? Get breaking alerts on your mobile.phone. Text ON INQ BREAKING to 4467, for Globe, Smart and Sun subscribers in the Philippines. Tags: Abu Sayyaf , Baker Atyani , captive , Jordan , journalist , Moro rebel group , release Factual errors? Contact the Philippine Daily Inquirer’s day desk. Believe this article violates journalistic ethics? Contact the Inquirer’s Reader’s Advocate. Or write The Readers’ Read More …

Filipinos played dead to survive Yemen attack

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Dec 052013
 
Filipinos played dead to survive Yemen attack

By Matikas SantosINQUIRER.net 1:53 pm | Friday, December 6th, 2013 This photo provided by Yemen’s Defense Ministry shows damaged vehicles after an explosion at the Defense Ministry complex in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013. A suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden car Thursday at Yemen’s Defense Ministry, killing more than a dozen soldiers and wounding at least 40 in an attack underlining the persistent threat to the stability and security of the impoverished Arab nation, military and hospital officials said. (AP Photo/Yemen’s Defense Ministry) MANILA, Philippines — The Filipinos who survived the initial suicide attack in a Defense Ministry Complex in Yemen capital city of Sana’a had to pretend to be dead to avoid getting killed in a shootout that followed, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Friday. “Based on accounts of survivors that [our Honorary Consul in Sana’a, Mr. Mohammad Al-Jamal] was able to talk with, he said that the incident started around 9:30 in the morning,” Foreign Affairs spokesman Raul Hernandez said in a press conference. “The first suicide bomber who tried to enter, detonated his explosives at the gate. Another one was apprehended before he could enter. But the third suicide bomber managed to enter and detonated his explosives causing [part of] the building to collapse,” he said. Six Filipino medical workers and one doctor were among the 52 killed in the bombing while eleven other Filipinos were injured. “Others survived the ensuing gun battle by pretending to be dead,” Hernandez said. Foreign media reported that Read More …

Xbox One nearly a set-top box replacement

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Dec 052013
 
Xbox One nearly a set-top box replacement

Emanuel Jumatate, from Chicago, hugs his new Xbox one after he purchased it at a Best Buy in Evanston, Ill. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) LOS ANGELES — The Xbox One won’t quite replace your TV set-top box, but it comes awfully close. The latest game console from Microsoft takes a big leap toward being the main entertainment hub in your living room. It gives you a program guide for browsing what’s on TV and what’s highlighted in apps such as Netflix and Amazon. You can listen to music and view photos stored on Microsoft’s SkyDrive service. You can make Skype video calls. And yeah, you can even play games. Some of the updates to the Xbox One and Sony’s PlayStation 4 help turn them into multi-function devices that make them more attractive to non-gamers. The Xbox goes further than the PlayStation, mainly because it integrates regular live TV. Slick new operating systems and voice controls on both consoles can make navigating the offerings part of the fun. The Xbox still requires a regular TV set-top box to feed it TV signals using what’s called “HDMI pass-through.” And you need subscriptions for TV and streaming services. The Xbox One acts like a traffic cop and weaves it all together elegantly. It doesn’t pull up on-demand shows or programs saved on a digital video recorder; you have to use the traditional remote control with the Xbox still powered on to do that. But Microsoft is looking at adding that feature in a Read More …

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