Green Archers’ Jeron Teng and Arnold van Opstal are ready to defend their championship title in UAAP’s men’s basketball category.
Jul 142014
Jul 142014
Apart from steak, Jet 7 Bistro also offers a selection of dishes from different countries.
Jul 142014
Cignal TV subcribers can now enjoy “superb digital audio” while watching on their TV or smartphone or tablets their favorite shows.
Jul 142014
Ken Alfonso’s new single “Umaasa” will be featured as the theme song in the GMA-7 Koreanovela Secret Love.
Jul 142014
Julia Barretto feels “kilig” that she is attracting more admirers.
Jul 142014
Continuing our head-to-head comparison of healthy foods, let’s find out which one among these foods comes out healthier. To recap, the results of Part 1 of this article are as follows, with the first item listed below coming out as healthier between the two: 1) clear soup over cream soup, 2) fresh fruits over dried fruits, 3) peanuts over shrimp crackers, 4) tomato sauce over fresh tomatoes, 5) hard-boiled egg over fried egg, 6) salad over soup, 7) several small meals a day over one big meal, 8) tea over coffee, 9) fish fat over pork fat, and 10) red wine over white wine. Now, let’s look at our second list of 10 pairs of food items. Can you guess the healthier (or less fatty) food between the pair? 1. Orange vs. apple. A study from the University of Nottingham finds that people who eat more than five apples a week have improved lung function and fewer asthma-like symptoms. Apples are rich in quercetin, a substance known to protect against many cancers. Studies show that people who eat an apple a day have lower chances of getting lung cancer and Alzheimer’s disease. Even smokers who often eat apples can somehow minimize the adverse effects of cigarette smoking. Moreover, apples are lower in calories at around 92 calories per apple. However, this does not mean that oranges aren’t good for you. The high vitamin C content of an orange and the fiber found in its membranes are healthy, too. But if Read More …
Jul 142014
The Commission on Audit (COA) questioned the P3.19 billion from the Supreme Court (SC) budget that the court declared as savings in 2012, GMA News’ “24 Oras” reported on Monday. According to the 2012 audit report of COA, the SC has P3.19 billion in unspent funds from the P15-billion notices of cash allocations (NCA) it received from the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) that year. In its report, the COA questioned why the SC declared such huge savings when it had several unpaid obligations during that year. According to the “24 Oras” report, the COA said that since the SC declared P3.19 billion of its NCA as “savings”, payments for its obligations incurred in 2012 were taken from the SC’s 2013 budget. The COA said this practice was against the law on government spending. Meanwhile, the SC, in its reply to the COA report said, it has been a practice of the high court to declare unspent funds as “savings”. According to the “24 Oras” report, the SC said it has its own policies when it comes to spending. In his televised speech Monday afternoon, President Benigno Aquino III criticized the SC over its decision to declare the administration’s Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) as partially unconstitutional. Among the practices under DAP that the SC ruled as unconstitutional were the declaration of unobligated and unprogrammed funds as “savings”, the “cross-border” transfer of savings of the executive branch to the other branches of the government, and the funding of projects not Read More …
Jul 142014
Lawyer Jessica Lucila “Gigi” Reyes was brought back to the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology detention facility in Taguig City Monday night. BJMP Metro Manila public information officer Inspector Aris Villaester said Reyes was placed in an isolation room, radio dzBB’s Manny Vargas reported. Reyes was brought to the BJMP facility at Camp Bagong Diwa from the Philippine Heart Center in Quezon City, where she spent the weekend. Half an hour earlier, an ambulance with BJMP escorts was seen exiting the Heart Center. The Sandiganbayan had ordered Reyes held at the BJMP detention center last week. Although Reyes was brought there last Wednesday, she was brought to the Taguig Pateros District Hospital, and then to the Philippine Heart Center after she allegedly complained of chest pains. — Joel Locsin/JDS, GMA News
Jul 142014
A lone lotto bettor won P14.634 million in Monday night’s Mega Lotto 6/45 draw of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office. The PCSO said the bettor got the combination of 24-19-09-35-07-43 to win the night’s jackpot worth P14,634,376. But as in the past, the PCSO is not likely to name the winner for security reasons. Last July 4, a lone bettor got the Mega Lotto 6/45 jackpot by getting the combination of 35-37-05-39-12-11 to win P92,361,380. On June 28, a lotto bettor hit the jackpot of the Grand Lotto draw, getting the combination of 04-52-55-38-46-08 to snag the jackpot worth P215,867,812. Also last June 28, a bettor won the Lotto 6/42 jackpot after getting the combination 27-01-29-04-06-18 to win P17,962,256. Last May 22, a lone Super Lotto 6/49 bettor won P98,612,308 with the combination of 31-35-04-06-30-03. On April 7, a lone bettor hit the jackpot of the PCSO’s Grand Lotto, getting the combination of 39-21-42-28-05-27 to win P249,841,572. But the biggest lotto prize in recent history was in November 2010, when a lone bettor won some P741.176 million for getting the winning combination 11-16-42-47-31-37. — Joel Locsin/JDS, GMA News
Jul 142014
Each of the country’s over 1,000 poor municipalities will receive P15 million in 2015 to finance the projects of their localities, Interior Secretary Mar Roxas announced Monday. In a convention of the League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP) held in Cebu City, Roxas told the more than 500 mayors who attended the event that the government is set to allocate P22 billion of its 2015 national budget for the DILG’s implementation of the Bottom-Up Budgeting (BUB) program. Roxas said under the program, the mayor of each municipality would be the one to choose a project based on the need and resources of his locality. Started in 2012, the BUB is a joint project of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), Department on Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC), which aims to assist 1,223 poorest of the poor municipalities in the country. Roxas assured the mayors that the BUB program will be included in the 2015 National Budget to be approved by Congress through a General Appropriations Act (GAA), thus, there will be no legal impediments in its implementation. Roxas, meanwhile, dismissed rumors that the BUB might be used by the Liberal Party (LP) for early campaigning. Roxas is being eyed as LP’s presidential bet in the 2016 elections. “Walang basehan yan, dahil lahat ito mapupunta kahit ano pang chaleco ang suot ng mayor. Wala naman itong pulitika, lahat ng bayan mabibigyan, nanalo man si PNoy doon o hindi,” Roxas said in an Read More …