Archive for January, 2010
Mommy Dionisia takes center stage in Imelda Papin concert
January 31st, 2010 | 
Author: Muling pinatunayan ng jukebox queen na si Imelda Papin ang galing sa concert stage! Pero hindi nagpatalbog sa entablado ang special guest na si Nanay Dionisia! Dinaluhan naman ng mga haligi ng showbiz…
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Printing of 50M ’scannable’ ballots begins Sunday
MANILA, Philippines — The printing of over 50 million ’scannable’ ballots 8.5 inches wide and 26 inches long started on Sunday at the National Printing Office in Quezon City, the Commission…
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Printing of 50M ’scannable’ ballots begins Sunday
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Printing of 50M ’scannable’ ballots begins Sunday
MANILA, Philippines — The printing of over 50 million ’scannable’ ballots 8.5 inches wide and 26 inches long started on Sunday at the National Printing Office in Quezon City, the Commission…
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Printing of 50M ’scannable’ ballots begins Sunday
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1,000 grandparents to march to Mendiola
MANILA, PhilippinesSome 1,000 senior citizens are scheduled to march from Morayta to Mendiola in Manila Monday morning to press President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to immediately sign the Congress-ratified Expanded Senior Citizens’ Act, it was learned Sunday. ‘Pabago-bago ang ihip ng hangin sa Malacanang (We’ve been hearing different things from Malacanang). Before, …
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Michelis finds its silver lining
MANILA, PhilippinesFashionably designed and impeccably finished sterling silver jewelry may be popular with Europeans, but not so much with Filipinos, especially during the late 1990s when Michelis Inc. first established itself in the Philippines. A sought-after manufacturer of fine silver jewelry in Europe for more than three decades, Mia Faustmann …
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Deadly day for the PMA
BLURBAL THRUSTS 01/31/2010 One of the more interesting political contests shaping up is the one in Mabalacat, Pampanga. This is due to the fact that the principal players are longtime Mayor Marino Morales of the Partido Lakas-Kampi-CMD, a rabid supporter of President Arroyo, and his youngest daughter Marjorie who was …
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Egypts veil wearers see it as barrier to harassment
focus 01/31/2010 CAIRO Female students at Cairo University are defying religious and state efforts to ban the controversial niqab from schools and colleges, saying that wearing the controversial face veil is a religious obligation that also protects against sexual harassment. I wear the niqab essentially to avoid harassment on …
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P7.2B worth of bull
EDITORIAL 01/31/2010 It is less than three months to the national elections in May and field tests on the polling system supplied by Smartmatic-Total Information Management seem to be nowhere near being publicly accepted as capable of bringing out credible poll results. Instead, the tests so far conducted showed indefinite …
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Not the worst Senate
C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S 01/31/2010 Last Tuesday, a day after that tumul-tuous Senate session which saw some of our respected senators descend to the abyss throwing all kinds of innuendoes and gutter language at each other a lot of callers besieged our daily morning show Karambola over dwIZ asking why the Senate has …
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Trans-Asia to bid for Ilijan contract
Trans-Asia Oil and Energy Development Corp. plans to bid for the management of an independent power producer administrator contract covering the 1,200-megawatt Ilijan natural gas-fired facility in Batangas.
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