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Senator Francis Escudero is asking the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee to cite National Agri-Business Corporation president Allan Javellana for contempt because of his continued disregard to the summons of the said committee regarding the investigation in the pork barrel scam.
A yacht hit the Bastera Reef, which is part of the Tubbataha Reef in Palawan. The two American passengers were rescued while the Philippine Coast Guard is still investigating the incident.
Janet Lim Napoles appeals to the Makati City Regional Trial Court Branch 150 to permit her to undergo hospitalization and surgery because of intense menstrual bleeding.
(Reuters) – The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits hovered near three-month lows last week and factory activity in the Mid-Atlantic region rebounded this month, suggesting the economy is regaining strength after being hobbled by severe weather. While other data on Thursday showed home sales at a 1-1/2 year low in February, the tight stock of houses on the market that has constrained sales eased for a second straight month, opening the door wider […]
(Reuters) – U.S. conductor Kent Nagano feels he lives in three worlds – his native California, his ancestral Japan and the Europe of the music he conducts. But his spirit is on a surfboard in the Pacific Ocean. Nagano, 62, is not alone among prominent musicians in having a passion that seems at odds with metronomes and music scores: the late Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan loved fast cars and opera composer Giacomo Puccini […]
The low pressure area being monitored by PAGASA finally developed into a storm, designated by the agency as “Caloy”. The storm hit eastern Mindanao, with Davao and other provinces being put under signal number 1.
Because of the large numbers of infrastructure projects to be implemented this year, an estimated 536, 523 workers will be given employment, according to the Department of Public Works and Highways.
19 Filipino seamen joined in the massive search in the southern Indian Ocean for two large debris suspected coming from the missing Malaysia Airlines Filght MH370. The 19 Filipinos form part of the crew of the Norwegian merchant ship “St. Petersburg”
Twenty Filipinos refused to identify and give information about themselves to the Philippine embassy after being arrested by the Spanish police for illegal drugs, thwarting the efforts of the embassy to give them aid.
(Reuters) – Half a million people fell sick with dangerous superbug strains of tuberculosis (TB) in 2012, but fewer than one in four were diagnosed, putting the rest at risk of dying due to the wrong medicines or no treatment at all. Latest data from the World Health Organisation (WHO), which says drug-resistant TB is a “global health security risk”, showed a third of the estimated 9 million people who contract TB in any form […]
By Will Dunham (Reuters) – If you’re a dinosaur with a nickname as funky as “the chicken from hell,” you had better be able to back it up. A dinosaur called Anzu wyliei that scientists identified on Wednesday from fossils found in North Dakota and South Dakota does just that. It had a head shaped like a bird’s, a toothless beak, an odd crest on its cranium, hands with big sharp claws, long legs for fast […]
Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking into the hard drives of the computers belonging to the pilot and co-pilot of Malaysia Airline Filght MH 370. Malaysian officials declared that some data have been erased and forensic investigators are trying to reconstruct the lost data.
