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Presidential candidate and Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte celebrates his birthday with Dolores Central School students and supporters during his campaign sortie in the province of Abra on Tuesday. Mayor Duterte took time-off from campaigning to celebrate his 71st birthday privately on Monday.(MNS photo) MANILA  (Mabuhay) – Pollster Pulse Asia on Monday disowned a survey which it supposedly conducted showing Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte as the front-runner in the presidential race. A post on the “Pompee La Viña – Duterte 2016″ claimed that Duterte was chosen by 26 percent of 4,000 respondents as their top presidential bet in a March 21-25 survey supposedly conducted by Pulse Asia. Senator Grace Poe supposedly dropped to second place with 24 percent, followed by administration bet Manuel “Mar” Roxas II with 21 percent, and Vice President Jejomar Binay in third place with 19 percent. The false survey has been shared more than 1,300 times and got 1,500 likes from Facebook users as of this writing. In a statement, Pulse Asia said that it did not conduct the survey. “It has come to our attention that a survey allegedly conducted from March 21 to 25 for ABS-CBN is being attributed to Pulse Asia. We did not conduct said survey. We do not conduct surveys during Holy Week, Holy Thursday and Good Friday in particular,” the statement read. The pollster urged the public to refer to their website for their official releases. The latest official survey conducted by Pulse Asia was the ABS-CBN commissioned poll Read More …

President Benigno S. Aquino III on Thursday graced the 25th anniversary celebration and thanksgiving program of the Center for Community Transformation Group of Ministries at the Wack Wack Golf and Country Club in Mandaluyong City Thursday (March 31). He praised the group for accomplishing programs that are aimed to alleviate poverty, as their civic work have done so much impact on the lives of the poor. The CCT started in 1991 as a small ministry and has now evolved into 12 ministries committed to helping the “poorest of the poor.” Also in photo are PCOO Secretary Sonny Coloma, DSWD Secretary Dinky Soliman, CCT Chair Bertram Lim, and CCT President Ruth Callanta. (MNS photo) MANILA, Apr 4 (Mabuhay) –  President Benigno Aquino III garnered the highest approval rating among the top national government officials, according to the latest Pulse Asia Research Inc. “Ulat ng Bayan” national survey. Aquino was the only government official who secured a majority approval rating, with 52 percent of the respondents saying that they have a positive opinion on the work he has done, the pollster noted in the “Performance Trust Ratings of the Top National Government Survey and the Performance Ratings of Key Governmnet Institutions” released on Monday. “A little over half of Filipinos (52 percent) have a positive opinion of the work done by President Benigno Aquino III in the past three months,” the pollster said. The survey was conducted from March 12 to 18, 2016, using face-to-face interviews with a probability sample of 1,800 Read More …

Performers walk on stilts during a street dancing competition, which culminates the Kaamulan Festival in Malaybalay City, Friday. Kaamul is a gathering of Bukidnon’s seven ethnic tribes–Bukidnon, Higaonon, Talaandig, Manobo, Matigsalug, Tigwahanon and Umayamnon–to promote their traditions.(MNS photo) BUKIDNON  (Mabuhay) – Bukidnon Governor Jose Maria Zubiri Jr. has officially endorsed the presidential candidacy of fellow Mindanaoan, Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte. Speaking in front of a huge crowd during the annual Kaamulan Festival on Friday, the influential political leader of Bukidnon introduced Duterte as the next president of the Philippines. According to Zubiri, his endorsement of the Davao City mayor was not a personal decision but the decision of his party, the Bukidnon Paglaum Party (BPP). “I gave them slips and said to them, ‘Who do you want to vote for Vice President and President of this country?’ When they gave that, I kept it myself, brought it to my house and one by one, I opened it. It was a unanimous decision,” Zubiri said. On October 6 last year, it was reported that Zubiri, along with the 20 mayors of the province, had announced that they will support administration standard bearer Mar Roxas in the May 9, 2016 elections. Zubiri, however, changed his tone after Duterte eventually filed his certificate of candidacy for president. Both Zubiri and Duterte admitted that they are long-time friends. Like Duterte, Zubiri also wants a change in the government system to federalism. Zubiri denied saying that they would support Roxas’ presidential bid. “I only Read More …