Monthly Archives: July 2014
Hayden Kho’s physician license restored amid protests
July 16, 2014
Remember Hayden Kho, the controversial celebrity doctor, actor, model turned businessman? Five years after losing his physician’s license after a sex video scandal involving some actresses and a beauty queen in 2009, the Professional Regulation Commission’s Board of Medicine restored his license apparently for “good behavior” after surrendering his license.
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Restoration of Davao’s Little Tokyo, boat landing pushed
July 16, 2014
DAVAO CITY – The City Tourism Office (CTO) is pushing for the restoration of the remnants and ruins of the once Japanese colony in barangay Mintal, this city, known as “Little Tokyo.” Continue reading
Pacquiao to join PBA draft for players, to fight Algieri in Macau in November
July 16, 2014
MANILA – World boxing icon Manny Pacquiao, already the coach of the Philippine Basketball Association’s newest team, KIA Mothers, is determined also to play in the basketball league.
In fact, a month after being appointed head coach of KIA Motors, the 8-division world boxing champion has prepared an application to join the 2014 PBA Rookie Draft. Incoming KIA team manager Eric Pineda, who is one of Pacquiao’s business managers, said he has Pacquiao’s application documents.
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Typhoon Glenda leaves 40 dead, many missing
July 16, 2014
QUEZON CITY (PhilAmPress) — Metro Manila and almost entire Luzon and many parts of Visayas stood still on Tuesday and Wednesday as strong typhoon Glenda battered the areas, knocking down power and communications, destroying properties and leaving at least 40 persons dead, many missing and thousands stranded.
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P-NOY, BINAY HAIL BNAA MEET
July 16, 2014
CHICAGO (JGL) – Philippine President Benigno Aquino, III, has hailed the Bikol National Associations of America (BNAA) when it holds its three-day 34th national convention hosted by the Chicago, Illinois-area based Bikol U.S.A. of the Midwest (BUSAM) headed by Ms. Evelyn R. Tolledo from July 25-27, 2014 at the Hilton Rosemont/O’Hare Hotel at 5550 N. River Road, Rosemont, Illinois, saying such “gatherings of overseas Filipino associations are an opportunity to look back on our collective achievements, and find in them sources of inspiration and strength to face future challenges with vitality and renewed confidence.” Continue reading
Aquino files motion for reconsideration before SC on ‘unconstitutional’ DAP
July 16, 2014
MANILA – The Aquino administration filed on July 18 through the Office of the Solicitor General its motion for reconsideration seeking to reverse the Supreme Court’s 13-0 ruling that the President’s alleged economic stimulus scheme, the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP), was unconstitutional and illegal. Continue reading
Would a Jeb -versus- Hillary Race be Good for America ?
Like me, you may be starting to take more interest in who may be voted our next U.S. President in 2016. After all, if recent history is any guide, two new flocks of candidates in the Republican and Democratic parties will be declaring their candidacies within six to nine months from now. Candidates Obama and McCain declared themselves eighteen months before the 2008 U.S. Presidential election Continue reading
Franco the Greatest
After Franco Consolacion died on June 6, 2014 at age 75 from serious health complications that had debilitated him since 2005, a mutual friend, Cip Ayalin, asked me to say a few words at his Cypress Lawn funeral wake on June 14. I replied that I wasn’t sure if I could find enough good words to say about him. Nonetheless, his brother, Alex, and his son, Gary, asked me to speak and so I did. Continue reading
How to reduce cancer risk
The big “C” is arguably the most dreaded of all diseases, with its general reputation as a fast killer. While other serious illnesses are also horrible, including Alzheimer’s dementia, the devastating nature of almost all forms of cancer understandably instills extreme fear in all of us. Continue reading
Talaang GinTO(NG)
Naging usap-usapan ang naiulat na ginawa ng tinawag na reyna ng kababuyan o pork barrel scam queen na si Janet Lim Napoles na diumano’y listahan ng mga sangkot sa pandarambong sa porkbarel ng mga lehislador. Naglalaman daw ang nasabing listahan ng mga pangalan na – bukod sa batid na ng lahat na Tres Porkiteros – ibang nilalang sa loob at labas ng gobyerno na dawit sa pagnanakaw sa porkbarel. Continue reading