Hot News! Duterte Won't Show on his Proclamation day! Read why!

<h4 style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </h4> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPGC_5L3QBZxJxKyuZTzl3dclzIfxLQwhUPBucIyKAWHT6Tv0JNB4AoUWxhZFXMB1B7u54qaK55mJMuwlrSX4E2OzyNpkmeEZoPaFJpU0D1Yo1idk0G8Q8sCtACC7dmSAciHFQW73Q44E/s1600/duterte+no+show.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Hot News! Duterte won't show on his proclamation day! Read why!" border="0" height="464" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPGC_5L3QBZxJxKyuZTzl3dclzIfxLQwhUPBucIyKAWHT6Tv0JNB4AoUWxhZFXMB1B7u54qaK55mJMuwlrSX4E2OzyNpkmeEZoPaFJpU0D1Yo1idk0G8Q8sCtACC7dmSAciHFQW73Q44E/s640/duterte+no+show.jpg" title="Hot News! Duterte won't show on his proclamation day! Read why!" width="640" /></a></div> <div> <br /></div> <h4 style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> It’s final: Rodrigo Duterte will be a no-show when Congress proclaims him as the country’s next President on Monday.</h4> <div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Large --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-slot="3053760250" style="display: inline-block; height: 280px; width: 336px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /> <br /> <div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “I am not attending any proclamation. I have never attended any proclamation in my life,” Duterte said in a media briefing at a hotel here in his home province late Saturday.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Instead, his lawyers will represent him in the proclamation deemed a historical moment for election winners, who are not required to attend the event.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “May mga abugado ako doon. Makinig na lang sila,” Duterte said.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> On Monday, the Senate and House will reconvene in a joint session to proclaim the winners of the presidential and vice presidential races in the May 9 polls.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Congress will also proclaim Vice President-elect Leni Robredo supposedly alongside Duterte.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Senator Alan Peter Cayetano, Duterte’s running mate in the last campaign, also said that the outgoing mayor of Davao City had never attended any of his proclamations in his 30 years in public office.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Large --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-slot="3053760250" style="display: inline-block; height: 280px; width: 336px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /> <br /> <div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “In all of my political aspirations, nanalo naman ako. Sabi ko nga baka God would want me to taste defeat but it never happened,” Duterte said.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The mayor then added in jest: “Pero hindi bale, sa sugal talo naman ako parati so bawi lang din.”</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Duterte’s executive assistant Bong Go said the mayor, whose term ends on June 30 as his presidency begins, might just give a message here in the province after the proclamation.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Robredo earlier said that she planned to speak with the incoming President during the proclamation to congratulate him and assure him of her full support.<br /> <br /> <br /></div> <center> <iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="315" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FNews5Everywhere%2Fvideos%2Fvb.163550757135020%2F652113054945452%2F%3Ftype%3D3&show_text=0&width=560" style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" width="560"></iframe></center> <br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Link ads --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-format="link" data-ad-slot="6029612651" style="display: block;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /> <br />

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Celebrity News! Ellen Adarna Spent The Night With Dream Boy Baste Duterte! Sorry Girls!

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn7CpSA0o_V8L6PaGz0iHDbT25afDeKb5ZtJ5KrxB5ga5ibKVDBMD6nRN3ddeqn4LTJDqvwyXKgZaqhTiwAq3Xd8sPWr17ndus886zC8m2mRRmS99M3A65Ct_9T_2AHJdbDRhXH5jjklM/s1600/ellen+baste.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Celebrity News! Ellen Adarna Spent The Night With Dream Boy Baste Duterte! Sorry Girls!" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn7CpSA0o_V8L6PaGz0iHDbT25afDeKb5ZtJ5KrxB5ga5ibKVDBMD6nRN3ddeqn4LTJDqvwyXKgZaqhTiwAq3Xd8sPWr17ndus886zC8m2mRRmS99M3A65Ct_9T_2AHJdbDRhXH5jjklM/s1600/ellen+baste.jpg" title="Celebrity News! Ellen Adarna Spent The Night With Dream Boy Baste Duterte! Sorry Girls!" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Large --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-slot="3053760250" style="display: inline-block; height: 280px; width: 336px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Sebastian Duterte </b>went viral on social media sites after the netizens saw his brusque yet simple quality. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> People wants to know more about him not only because he is the son of the presumptive president Rodrigo Duterte but because he, himself is someone to be admired as well. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> But this photo will sure break your heart girls! The dreamboy Baste Duterte was spotted with the hot actress <b>Ellen Adarna </b>on the tear-drop shaped island of <b>Siargao</b>. This is located in Surigao del Norte.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The photos were posted by the actress on her <b>Instagram account</b>.</div> <br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Large --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-slot="3053760250" style="display: inline-block; height: 280px; width: 336px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /> <br /> <center> <iframe allowfullscreen="" class="tube" frameborder="0" height="315" id="player" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5V7GGYnylBA?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></center> <br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Link ads --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-format="link" data-ad-slot="6029612651" style="display: block;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /> <br />

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Hot News! Nurses Appeal To Duterte To Increase Their Salaries When He Assumes The Seat! Must Read!

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Hot News! 'Stop nitpicking' Duterte to CHR on rape remark

<div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOPUJVW_hetF1uPUHQmYtQX2MP0m15jeK8L3bOPLUYNU0qbva-vnxEQe3blDhLX-MWh1QFCohlT0B4Rnlfd8kmCWR7mKC48Gl3ikSUbV-GFK1JoYnUMfkbdkfa4jNQKg2zj9IDMTJMg_8/s1600/duterte+chr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Hot News! 'Stop nitpicking' Duterte to CHR on rape remark" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOPUJVW_hetF1uPUHQmYtQX2MP0m15jeK8L3bOPLUYNU0qbva-vnxEQe3blDhLX-MWh1QFCohlT0B4Rnlfd8kmCWR7mKC48Gl3ikSUbV-GFK1JoYnUMfkbdkfa4jNQKg2zj9IDMTJMg_8/s1600/duterte+chr.jpg" title="Hot News! 'Stop nitpicking' Duterte to CHR on rape remark" /></a></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">DAVAO CITY, Philippines – After the release of a Commission on Human Rights (CHR) resolution that Rodrigo Duterte violated the Magna Carta of Women with his rape remark, the president-elect accused the agency of "nitpicking."</span></div> <br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Large --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-slot="3053760250" style="display: inline-block; height: 280px; width: 336px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /> <br /> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">He called out CHR chairperson Chito Gascon.</span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">“That idiot is nitpicking. I told already in public how it happened. Then you keep on issuing a statement. Here I am, I’m about to enter the presidency. What do you want?” said the president-elect at a press conference on Wednesday, May 25.</span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Duterte reiterated his explanation that the controversial remark that sounded like an offensive joke to many was actually just part of his retelling of the hostage-taking incident in 1988. The rape of an Australian missionary by the hostage-takers supposedly prompted him to utter the statement out of anger.</span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">He called the statement a form of “gutter language” that was meant to ridicule the manhood of the hostage-takers.</span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Duterte said he had retold the incident during the campaign sortie to preempt people who were “digging up tapes” of the time when he first made the remark.</span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">“<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Kaya inunahan ko na. Itong putanginang [Commission on] Human Rights kumagat rin. Masipa ko sila eh</em>. (So I tried to preempt them. This son of a bitch Commission on Human Rights bit the bait. I want to kick them),” he said.</span></div> <br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Large --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-slot="3053760250" style="display: inline-block; height: 280px; width: 336px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /> <br /> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Davao City mayor also called CHR “too naive and too simplistic.”</span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">He said he was merely “exercising my right to free expression, right to speech.”</span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">While the CHR can comment on his statement, they are powerless to mete any serious punishment.</span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">One of the agency's “recommendations” was for the Civil Service Commission and the Department of the Interior and Local Government to "consider taking appropriate measures" on Duterte's violation of the law.</span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Round one <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">pa lang sila</em>. Wasting the money of the Filipino people. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sabihin mo, ‘Shut up.’</em> (They are only on Round One. They are wasting the money of the Filipino people. Tell them, 'Shut up'),” he said.</span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> The CHR, which had acted on the complaint of women's groups against Duterte, found the latter's words and actions to be "discriminatory of women."</div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> Gascon also noted that the commission's constitutional duty is to protect human rights and to "call out persons when these rights are violated no matter what their position in society may be."</div> <br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Link ads --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-format="link" data-ad-slot="6029612651" style="display: block;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /> <br />

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Celebrity News! Lovi Poe Replaces Ellen Adarna for Regal's "The Escort" Movie

<div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; margin-bottom: 1.7em;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinmUXiyXzgshN4bdMtJrC8W_fgt_o5NUkGfuFrYwu5BSQRV_84g4jhznOobOvJ_qffumX91mqERxOtX61VOxaMK2khTqtL5vavf4Lf65cqq-e756ooYgb1h3XGAMSmTI1L8g7G4ThNYwk/s1600/ellen+lovi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Celebrity News! Lovi Poe Replaces Ellen Adarna for Regal's "The Escort" Movie Project" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinmUXiyXzgshN4bdMtJrC8W_fgt_o5NUkGfuFrYwu5BSQRV_84g4jhznOobOvJ_qffumX91mqERxOtX61VOxaMK2khTqtL5vavf4Lf65cqq-e756ooYgb1h3XGAMSmTI1L8g7G4ThNYwk/s1600/ellen+lovi.jpg" title="Celebrity News! Lovi Poe Replaces Ellen Adarna for Regal's "The Escort" Movie Project" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; margin-bottom: 1.7em;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; margin-bottom: 1.7em;"> LOVI Poe is happy to be chosen by Regal to play the title role in the provocative sex-drama, “The Escort”, which was originally meant for Ellen Adarna. Yes, Ellen’s loss is Lovi’s definite gain. Sayang for Ellen, kasi it’s a great project. We ask someone from Regal why they replaced Ellen and they said she had become difficult even before the shooting started.</div> <br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Large --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-slot="3053760250" style="display: inline-block; height: 280px; width: 336px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; margin-bottom: 1.7em;"> “Pictorial pa lang with Derek, hindi na sinipot,” says our source. “Even when she did ‘You’re Still the One’ with us co-starring Dennis Trillo and Maja Salvador, she gave us headaches na dahil biglang hindi na lang sisipot sa shooting. We were trying to communicate with her manager about ‘The Escort’, but 'yung manager niya mismo ang nagsabi, sige, palitan n'yo na. And so we did.”</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; margin-bottom: 1.7em;"> Lovi Poe is very thankful that she got the project where she plays the title role of an escort girl who figures in a complicated love triangle with an older man, played by Christopher de Leon, and a younger man, Derek Ramsay. “I’m so excited to work with both of them,” she says. “I’ve worked with Tito Boyet de Leon before on TV in ‘Beautiful Strangers’, pero siyempre, iba ang movie. As for Derek, maraming gustong makatrabaho siya and I’m glad to be given the chance to finally work with him.”</div> <br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Large --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-slot="3053760250" style="display: inline-block; height: 280px; width: 336px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; margin-bottom: 1.7em;"> “The Escort” will be directed by Enzo Williams, who directed “Bonifacio, Unang Pangulo” starring Robin Padilla in the Metro Manila Filmfest two years ago. As for Lovi, she has another movie which is already in the can, “Lakambini”, about Gregoria de Jesus, directed by Jeffrey Jeturian and co-starring Paulo Avelino and Rocco Nacino.</div> <br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Link ads --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-format="link" data-ad-slot="6029612651" style="display: block;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /> <br />

Celebrity News! Lovi Poe Replaces Ellen Adarna for Regal's "The Escort" Movie

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Celebrity News! PH's Julian Flores eliminated from "Asia's Next Top Model" season 4

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXCYhZbLiierNbpoYe3jIYzwPJWR8x5Lgd_7XGa5DIYjJShu5LUq9SN-zuCtvGVzHYA-UftaHOcKuITmsp5WeNN8KbXM_nAq93AWH1FyypSIZUFF6x5CFOnYSxM99-aHxecV3rloZiaD4/s1600/julian+flores.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Celebrity News! PH's Julian Flores eliminated from 'Asia's Next Top Model' season 4" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXCYhZbLiierNbpoYe3jIYzwPJWR8x5Lgd_7XGa5DIYjJShu5LUq9SN-zuCtvGVzHYA-UftaHOcKuITmsp5WeNN8KbXM_nAq93AWH1FyypSIZUFF6x5CFOnYSxM99-aHxecV3rloZiaD4/s1600/julian+flores.jpg" title="Celebrity News! PH's Julian Flores eliminated from 'Asia's Next Top Model' season 4" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> MANILA, Philippines – After making it to the Top 4, Filipino Julian Flores was eliminated from <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Asia's Next Top Model</em> (AsNTM) season 4 on Wednesday, May 25.</div> <br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Large --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-slot="3053760250" style="display: inline-block; height: 280px; width: 336px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> Julian, who scored 40 points in total, lost to Thailand's Jiratchaya Kedkong (aka Tawan), who scored 41.5. She was the last Filipino still in the competition.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> After the scores were revealed, host and judge Cindy Bishop told Julian, "I'm not gonna tell you how beautiful you are, because you know that. I want you to go away from this hoping that you've learned not only what it means to be a model but what it means to be real. Being professional doesn't mean hiding emotion, it means knowing which ones to show at which time."</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> After Julian's last photoshoot on the show, the judges criticized her for not showing enough personality on set, which reflected in her photo. This, they said, would affect how casting agents would remember her.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> "You have so much potential," continued Cindy. "Thank you for being with us."</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> Julian responded, "I'm sure I made the Philippines proud and I want to thank you for everything that you've taught me, not just in modeling but in everything in life. Thank you."</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> Later, as the camera showed Julian packing her bags, she added: "I met a lot of great people here in the competition and I will cherish every moment I spent wth them. It's a big honor for me to meet these people."</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> "Being part of Top 4 is still an honor for me. I don't regret anything," she said.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> The girls in the Top 3 are Tawan, Patricia Gunawan from Indonesia, and Sang In Kim from South Korea.</div> <br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Large --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-slot="3053760250" style="display: inline-block; height: 280px; width: 336px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> Julian is one of the 3 Filipino contestants on AsNTM this season. The other two were Gwendoline Ruais, who was eliminated from the competition, and Alaiza Malinao, who left the show voluntarily.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> Last season, the Philippines' Monika Sta Maria was first runner-up on the show.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> Julian competed in the 2014 Binibining Pilipinas competition, where she was part of the Top 15. According to her Instagram bio, She placed 4th runner-up in the Miss Manila beauty contest in 2014.</div> <br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Link ads --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-format="link" data-ad-slot="6029612651" style="display: block;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /> <br />

Celebrity News! PH's Julian Flores eliminated from "Asia's Next Top Model" season 4

MANILA, Philippines – After making it to the Top 4, Filipino Julian Flores was eliminated from  Asia's Next Top Model  (AsNTM) seas...

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Celebrity News! No Regrets on Relationship with Billy Crawford - Coleen Garcia Revealed

<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTb54r717J2cz6SvjFB4PeL4BsmWDgSC0IlhoQOWdvEYcofGCl1K65kU8WdEKQc0DrdjcncxCIK7ZV8CIqjvf4jyCCh1D60L6q6nAm3UIrCsQUyEG6p5teH_3blJ9cCM8xmak5W-O5hLU/s1600/Coleen-Revelations-About-Billy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Celebrity News! No Regrets on Relationship with Billy Crawford - Coleen Garcia" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTb54r717J2cz6SvjFB4PeL4BsmWDgSC0IlhoQOWdvEYcofGCl1K65kU8WdEKQc0DrdjcncxCIK7ZV8CIqjvf4jyCCh1D60L6q6nAm3UIrCsQUyEG6p5teH_3blJ9cCM8xmak5W-O5hLU/s1600/Coleen-Revelations-About-Billy.jpg" title="Celebrity News! No Regrets on Relationship with Billy Crawford - Coleen Garcia" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Large --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-slot="3053760250" style="display: inline-block; height: 280px; width: 336px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Coleen Garcia </b>had a recent interview with the King of Talk in<b> 'Tonight With Boy Abunda'</b>.  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> On the said interview, they talked about her <b>relationship </b>with her current boyfriend <b>Billy</b> <b>Crawford</b>. She talked about how she could not imagine her life if Billy did not came into her life. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Coleen also said that every journey that she had and she will be having with Billy is worth it. She made Billy Crawford the inspiration of her life. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Based on the statement of Coleen, she said: Not everything that makes you happy is worth fighting for. There are things that need to be let go, simply because they are not meant to be. The happiness that you can get in holding on is just a portion of what you can get if you let go. However, if you can see that “holding on” will make you a better person, will enrich your soul and will bring you to lifetime contentment, then do not let go.'</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> She also revealed that her father Jose approves Billy Crawford and they even spend time hanging out together. </div> <br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Large --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-slot="3053760250" style="display: inline-block; height: 280px; width: 336px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /> <br /> <center> <iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="tube" frameborder="0" height="315" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F607333532747474%2Fvideos%2Fvb.607333532747474%2F695509253929901%2F%3Ftype%3D3&show_text=0&width=560" style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" width="560"></iframe></center> <br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Link ads --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-format="link" data-ad-slot="6029612651" style="display: block;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /> <br />

Celebrity News! No Regrets on Relationship with Billy Crawford - Coleen Garcia Revealed

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Hot News! Rody Duterte met INC's Eduardo Manalo

<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0-Hyh3GbHpawvONLQ4xitIVjD8FbSV8atJNDQvD8Yw9QhGZ1fNIkDSt1Ncj0Wbi_fCmDSugHtXPyYlGq2zov-8itlDf92DTLYTfTgE8r-lAxb6GQpKzapXK6lmYRdwjblO1T1J1Df2oo/s1600/duterte-evm-iglesia-meet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Hot News! Rody Duterte met INC's Eduardo Manalo" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0-Hyh3GbHpawvONLQ4xitIVjD8FbSV8atJNDQvD8Yw9QhGZ1fNIkDSt1Ncj0Wbi_fCmDSugHtXPyYlGq2zov-8itlDf92DTLYTfTgE8r-lAxb6GQpKzapXK6lmYRdwjblO1T1J1Df2oo/s1600/duterte-evm-iglesia-meet.jpg" title="Hot News! Rody Duterte met INC's Eduardo Manalo" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> If it was any indication of preferences, Davao City Mayor Rody Duterte was reported to have spent about an hour-and-a-half in the cavernous Bulwagan room speaking with Iglesia ni Cristo Executive Minister Eduardo Manalo last April 22.</div> <br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Large --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-slot="3053760250" style="display: inline-block; height: 280px; width: 336px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> Clumsily clad in an unbuttoned barong with rolled up sleeves, and wearing leather shoes and corduroy, a relatively formal-looking Duterte shook hands with Manalo who was wearing the typical suit he dons during special occasions.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> The two got along quite well, according to insiders who accompanied Duterte. Days later, a fake letter supposedly signed by Manalo endorsing Duterte went viral on Facebook. The INC quickly disowned it and said it would file charges against people behind it. One sure sign it was fake? It contained a typo and spelled “Rodrigo” as “Ridrido”. The Iglesia typically sends out formal, clean letters in flawless Filipino, we are told.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> The mayor, who was formally invited to have an audience with Manalo, joked and chatted the time away. By now, we all know how Duterte is predisposed to long, winding speeches.</div> <br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Large --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-slot="3053760250" style="display: inline-block; height: 280px; width: 336px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> Vice President Jejomar Binay was given about 30 minutes, while administration bet Mar Roxas, who was accompanied by his wife Korina stayed for around 20 minutes, the Duterte insiders said.</div> <br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Link ads --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-format="link" data-ad-slot="6029612651" style="display: block;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /> <br />

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Hot Topic! Communists Praises Duterte rejecting Aquino's way of Governance

<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.9px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.9px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfCsZzQ6DC1-E677k8nqPYSqoLAUXF3GHk_jvvG_l8thzRuzGbVUqqCF8_9WsdaSeehzg4qQWF9s22ZDcYNAEoiFEHi5yeWOxi2Ph2f5L5gvmkNJ4vpQlPYAIlTYmwdL_wVXohd2hNezo/s1600/duterte+cpp.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfCsZzQ6DC1-E677k8nqPYSqoLAUXF3GHk_jvvG_l8thzRuzGbVUqqCF8_9WsdaSeehzg4qQWF9s22ZDcYNAEoiFEHi5yeWOxi2Ph2f5L5gvmkNJ4vpQlPYAIlTYmwdL_wVXohd2hNezo/s1600/duterte+cpp.jpg" /></a></div> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.9px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> THE imminent presidency of Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte is a resounding rejection of outgoing President Benigno Aquino III’s claims of good governance, inclusive growth, and his slogan “Tuwid na Daan” (straight path), the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) said.</div> <br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Large --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-slot="3053760250" style="display: inline-block; height: 280px; width: 336px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.9px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> Duterte, the CPP Central Committee said in a statement, attacked the Aquino administration and presented himself as “an anti-thesis of the oligarchic and cacique rule, keenly aware of the Filipino people’s profound hatred for the Aquino administration and its six years of corruption, mendacity, and failure to address the needs of the Filipino people.”</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.9px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> His rise to the presidency, the group added, is a reflection of the deepening and aggravating crisis of the “semi-colonial” and “semi-feudal” system that he was able to draw broad support from the people for presenting himself as sympathetic to the people's discontent and deep desire “to put an end to the oppressive and rotten ruling system.”</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.9px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> “Duterte’s election also reflects the deepening factional strife among the ruling classes. He polarized the political elite with his cuss-filled bluster,” the CPP said, although it added many of the huge business owners had supported Duterte in his campaign.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.9px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> And for the first time, it said, “the Philippine client-state is to be headed by one who is not completely beholden to the US imperialists” citing an incident where Duterte railed against the US and the [Central Intelligence Agency] for whisking away its agent Michael Meiring who accidentally exploded the improvised bomb he was preparing inside a Davao hotel during the height of the alleged 2003 US terror bombings in Mindanao.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.9px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> He [Duterte] opposed the use of the Davao airport as a base for US drone operations and spoke unfavorably] against the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (Edca), the group said.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.9px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> CPP added that if Duterte “seriously and vigorously pursues his promise to eradicate criminality, especially widespread drug trade within three to six months, he will likely drive a wedge deep into the ranks of military and police generals and bureaucratic capitalists who are protectors, operators and associates of criminal syndicates.”</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.9px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> On peace talks, the CPP and revolutionary forces welcome Duterte’s plan to seriously pursue the National Democratic Front of the Philippines-Government of the Republic of the Philippines (NDFP-GRP) peace negotiations as well as his plan to visit The Netherlands to meet NDFP senior political consultant Prof. Jose Ma. Sison and the Utrecht-based NDFP peace panel.</div> <br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Large --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-slot="3053760250" style="display: inline-block; height: 280px; width: 336px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.9px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> “The CPP fully supports the NDFP proposal, put forward by [Sison], to pursue NDFP-GRP peace negotiations under the Duterte government with the aim of forging an agreement to establish a government of national unity, peace and development,” it added.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.9px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> Among the first measures that need to be carried out by the Duterte administration to boost peace negotiations, the CPP said, would be the release of all detained NDFP consultants and facilitation of their travel to a neutral territory where negotiations can be conducted. They were treacherously arrested in violation of earlier agreements and made to suffer unjust prolonged imprisonment.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.9px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> By intensifying their struggles, the Filipino people are bound to attain more and more victories in the years to come. The people’s war is set to press forward under the Duterte administration, the group said.</div> <br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Link ads --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-format="link" data-ad-slot="6029612651" style="display: block;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /> <br />

Hot Topic! Communists Praises Duterte rejecting Aquino's way of Governance

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Hot News! Trending Beautiful 'Badjao Girl' is Now Named! Meet Rita Gabriola

<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrXKPzTOzw17JTXtJ8gcO9q7jIXM6T7vIH-41GJpSu1drQZtjIQvdt8E71aHWTRfm3nLbQV8-rc7LNzKwdquyO8fLhXZRZzlHe8DLTDyvLeVXtGZ1v4lEjgVCV6iu-lwhkH3JXg9WO5A0/s1600/badjao+rita.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Hot News! Trending Beautiful 'Badjao Girl' is Now Named! Meet Rita Gabriola" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrXKPzTOzw17JTXtJ8gcO9q7jIXM6T7vIH-41GJpSu1drQZtjIQvdt8E71aHWTRfm3nLbQV8-rc7LNzKwdquyO8fLhXZRZzlHe8DLTDyvLeVXtGZ1v4lEjgVCV6iu-lwhkH3JXg9WO5A0/s1600/badjao+rita.jpg" title="Hot News! Trending Beautiful 'Badjao Girl' is Now Named! Meet Rita Gabriola" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> Meet Rita Gabriola, the teenage Badjao girl from Lucban, Quezon who became an overnight star after photos of her went viral on social media.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> The 13-year-old Badjao girl captured the heart of online community for her real Pinay beauty. Netizens says Gabriola has the posture of a beauty queen.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> The viral photo was captured by Topher Quinto at the Pahiyas Festival in Lucban where he spotted Gabriola begging for alms with her sibling.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #141414; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Check out ‘Badjao Girl’ Rita Gabriola viral photos below.</span></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Large --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-slot="3053760250" style="display: inline-block; height: 280px; width: 336px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /> <br /> <center> <iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="645" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FRandomPhotosOfficial%2Fposts%2F810662625632633&width=500" style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" width="500"></iframe></center> <center style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #141414; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #141414; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Rita Gabriola, 13, thanked netizens who made her pictures go viral for their generous compliments on her looks.</span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #141414; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">She also thanked Topher Quinto, the man who took her pictures at the Pahiyas Festival in Lucban, Quezon where she was begging for alms with her sibling.</span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #141414; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">The photos by Quinto gained so much attention that the son of incoming president Rodrigo Duterte praised Gabriola for her natural beauty and effortless poise.</span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #141414; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">"Hindi po ako marunong mag-internet, pinakita lang sakin sa cellphone. Pinagsabihan nila ako na, uy si Rita, artista na. Ganyan lang po sinasabi nila," she said.</span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #141414; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">She is optimistic that the outpouring of support triggered by the pictures will help her fulfill her dreams.</span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #141414; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">"Kaya ko po gustong maging guro, gusto ko pong matulungan ang tulad ng mga kapatid kong bata. Gusto ko rin po sila maipag-aral. At sabi sakin ng tatay ko, gusto niya kong mapag-aral. Kasi kami na lang po ang pag-asa naming magkakapatid," Gabriola said</span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #141414; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #141414; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Watch the Full <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIUG1Vjj17U&feature=youtu.be" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Video</a> Interview of Rita "Badjao Girl" Gabriola by <a href="http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/567456/hashtag/teenage-badjao-girl-hoping-viral-fame-could-help-her-reach-dream-of-becoming-a-teacher" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GMA News Network</a> below.</span></span></div> </center> <br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Large --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-slot="3053760250" style="display: inline-block; height: 280px; width: 336px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /> <br /> <center> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="340" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FIUG1Vjj17U" width="80%"></iframe></center> <center> video courtesy of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqYw-CTd1dU2yGI71sEyqNw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GMA News and Public Affairs</a>.</center> <br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Link ads --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-format="link" data-ad-slot="6029612651" style="display: block;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /> <br />

Hot News! Trending Beautiful 'Badjao Girl' is Now Named! Meet Rita Gabriola

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Hot New! Duterte's First Strike on Drugs Starts in Bilibid Prison: All Jail Guards Will Be Replaced - Aguirre

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgPBrLm2xqHy-PebClzc4lq83N3YDdkd_WQle0laI0VScUyeIPm84DhpSuG-RAcTbAeryxesKbhwRRPIMPfu85oIJEbyv2GJ1TuEDh9fS1YDt8foywntGZ0NCTN-oR38As4vLD9ZLSJJU/s1600/aguirre.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Hot New! Duterte's First Strike on Drugs Starts in Bilibid Prison: All Jail Guards Will Be Replaced - Aguirre" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgPBrLm2xqHy-PebClzc4lq83N3YDdkd_WQle0laI0VScUyeIPm84DhpSuG-RAcTbAeryxesKbhwRRPIMPfu85oIJEbyv2GJ1TuEDh9fS1YDt8foywntGZ0NCTN-oR38As4vLD9ZLSJJU/s1600/aguirre.jpg" title="Hot New! Duterte's First Strike on Drugs Starts in Bilibid Prison: All Jail Guards Will Be Replaced - Aguirre" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Large --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-slot="3053760250" style="display: inline-block; height: 280px; width: 336px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /> Incoming Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II will do what incoming Senator Leila de Lima failed to do during her more than five years in office as Justice Secretary – ‎smoke out the drug lords doing business at the heart of the National Bilibid Prison (NBP).<br /> <br /> In an interview with ANC’s Karen Davila, ‎Aguirre said he would start incoming President-elect Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs by shaking down the drug lords inside the NBP.<br /> <br /> “I’ll begin with the BOC (Bureau of Corrections). The biggest drug lords who are there are able to manufacture drugs inside,” said Aguirre.<br /> <br /> Aguirre said despite de Lima’s ritual of making surprise inspections, the drug manufacturing business has endured because the BOC employees have conspired with the drug lords. “If necessary, I will replace all jail guards,” said Aguirre.<br /> <br /> Aguirre said Duterte’s broad plan was to toughen up on the prosecution of drug pushers and drug lords. “Respondents in drug cases get off the hook because of some loopholes in the procedure of handling evidence,” said ‎. <br /> <br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Large --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-slot="3053760250" style="display: inline-block; height: 280px; width: 336px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /> <br /> <br /> Duterte is planning to reimpose the death penalty to cover convicted drug lords and pushers. <br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Link ads --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-format="link" data-ad-slot="6029612651" style="display: block;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /> <br />

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Hot News! Returning OFWs Can Now Ship Personal Items Worth P350,000 TAX-FREE

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtS8dM7wb_9BRkCoA7LnSHeeu0kxVLg-tLgEUO3slZsMdZIrbRsedQnT3toaV4nU5zpfCjIj3viVTxY4xxPbFq2NjxRgelrbWjrvuprVn4S1ulLafWWZjEMdba7O2YlGKja1jNtiwzcT8/s1600/returningofws.png" imageanchor="1"><img alt="Hot News! Returning OFWs Can Noew Ship Personal Items Worth P350,000 TAX-FREE" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtS8dM7wb_9BRkCoA7LnSHeeu0kxVLg-tLgEUO3slZsMdZIrbRsedQnT3toaV4nU5zpfCjIj3viVTxY4xxPbFq2NjxRgelrbWjrvuprVn4S1ulLafWWZjEMdba7O2YlGKja1jNtiwzcT8/s1600/returningofws.png" title="Hot News! Returning OFWs Can Noew Ship Personal Items Worth P350,000 TAX-FREE" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Large --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-slot="3053760250" style="display: inline-block; height: 280px; width: 336px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /> <br /> <h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Oswald, 'Bebas Neue', Bebas, 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; font-size: 19.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> According to a new law approved by the Philippine Senate, overseas Filipino workers (OFW) who are returning to the country for good will now be allowed to bring home up to Php350,000 maximum worth of personal and household items completely tax-free.</h3> <div> <h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Oswald, 'Bebas Neue', Bebas, 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; font-size: 19.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> Senator Ralph Recto, author of the Balikbayan Box Law provision in the proposed Customs Modernization and Tariff Act (CMTA), said that OFWs who want to bring home furniture, appliances, and other items will surely welcome this new law with gratitude. They can, for example, place their belongings (and other things with sentimental value) to a 20-footer van and they will not be charged for it as long as the amount does not go beyond the approved cost.</h3> <br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Large --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-slot="3053760250" style="display: inline-block; height: 280px; width: 336px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> Aside from furniture and appliances, the same rule applies for “jewelry, precious stones, and other goods of luxury, personal and household effects including wearing apparel, goods of personal adornment except luxury items, toilet goods, instruments related to one’s profession and analogous personal or household effects, excluding vehicles, watercraft, aircraft and animals,” Recto shared.</div> <h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Oswald, 'Bebas Neue', Bebas, 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; font-size: 19.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> When estimating the value of the items, Recto reminded the difference between new and used ones. “The bicam can still raise the amount. Of course, if these are used items, of course assessed values would be lower,” the senator explained.</h3> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> </div> <h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Oswald, 'Bebas Neue', Bebas, 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; font-size: 19.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> So how do the OFWs get to avail of this privilege?</h3> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> </div> <h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Oswald, 'Bebas Neue', Bebas, 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; font-size: 19.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> Based on the law, the Php350,000 tax exemption is only applicable for OFWs who have lived and worked overseas for 10 years. On the other hand, those who have lived and worked abroad for at least 5 years will be able to enjoy a shipment value of Php250,000.</h3> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> </div> <h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Oswald, 'Bebas Neue', Bebas, 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; font-size: 19.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> “This is one of the many outdated regulations CMTA is trying to cure,” Recto commented. In the past, OFWs are only given about Php10,000 worth of personal and household goods.</h3> </div> <br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Link ads --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-format="link" data-ad-slot="6029612651" style="display: block;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /> <br />

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<div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></span> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-Q13if6VouWod_53M8E-JYSvthqpudss4ZeXGAzlDuV3CyK7bkUxGr5XUWjpHAVPKC2u8HFqWMIAdz76KiKcTEuT4ccIAs6eApca9fhBiRFjZI3HQMUlSyZXQ4uFzfyfd85N9iR0ke8M/s1600/duterterapller.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Hot News! 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Young Cabinet Nominees Refused Dutertes Offer Due to Low Salaries" /></a></div> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></span><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></span><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">DAVAO CITY, Philippines – Where are the “bright and young” people Rodrigo Duterte had promised to appoint to his Cabinet?</span></div> <br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Large --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-slot="3053760250" style="display: inline-block; height: 280px; width: 336px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /> <br /> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">If Duterte is to be believed, they were his first choices but they declined his offer because of the low government salary.</span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">“<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Yung mga bata, I have approached for different positions. Ang sabi nila, ‘Magkano ibigay mo?’ Sabi ko, ‘Ganito lang siguro suweldo ng ano eh' </em>(I have approached young people for different positions. They asked, ‘How much can you pay?’ I said, ‘The salary is only this much'),<span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">” he said. </span></span></div> <div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Duterte said those he had asked pointed to their families as the reason why they could not accept the government salary. </span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Most of these potential appointees supposedly told Duterte that their children were about to enter college and so they need private sector salaries to pay for tuition fees.</span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">“They want to be patriotic but the problem is the necessity,” said the president-elect.</span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700; margin-top: 50px;">Computing gov't salaries</span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> Cabinet members get a basic salary of P90,000 per month, but what they earn from government depends on the tasks they perform. Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala, for example, was the highest paid Cabinet official in 2013, earning a total of P4,217,650.</div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> For that year, he received a basic salary of P1,085,940, P29,000 in honoraria, P577,939.18 in allowances, P127,190 in bonuses and incentives, P291,999.95 in discretionary funds, and P2,105,581.33 for chairing the National Food Authority Council.</div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> The Commission on Audit had earlier said that "differences in salaries and allowances received by the government officials are dependent on the nature and complexity of their respective agencies, including allowances for maintenance of overseas operations and security concerns as well as those holding multiple positions."</div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> The President's basic salary is P120,000 per month.</div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> Duterte previously cited low government wages as the primary reason why most brilliant Filipinos choose the private sector over public service.</div> <br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Large --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-slot="3053760250" style="display: inline-block; height: 280px; width: 336px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /> <br /> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700; margin-top: 50px;">Cabinet taking shape</span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> The two youngest members of his Cabinet, incoming Public Works Secretary Mark Villar and Presidential Assistant for Visayas Michael Dino come from wealthy families or have established businesses.</div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Duterte’s announcement of his planned appointments show a Cabinet composed mostly of former government officials, retired military men, lawyer friends, and trusted campaign members.</span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">But he said the appointees are not yet final until he has signed the appropriate documents.</span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">It’s possible for the appointees to be “shuffled” to accommodate future appointees, he added.</span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Duterte admitted he is finding it “difficult” to find people to head the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of Budget and Management.</span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">But for the newly-created Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), he said there are plenty of people to choose from.</span></div> <div class="p2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;"> <span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Yes, I have to appoint a very technical, a very good guy, an expert there.<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Marami tayo niyan</em> (We have a lot of those),” he said.</span></div> <br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Link ads --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-format="link" data-ad-slot="6029612651" style="display: block;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 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Hot Topic! Duterte's First Orders - Liqour Ban, Curfew, No Smoking

<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWARExyQMmJeM6nrofup3xL09XhvHHukHoTGkpJZCkXm7e2r3AL7hjvuiiO241Rcp3D6NTZAyn9c6I0SBU6Ca-I46ElkTFvLph2bx0Q1uwNNeEbodmFMOd3SHGRxoRo9bxytcpUpZnGow/s1600/liquor-ban.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Hot Topic! Duterte's First Orders - Liqour Ban, Curfew, No Smoking" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWARExyQMmJeM6nrofup3xL09XhvHHukHoTGkpJZCkXm7e2r3AL7hjvuiiO241Rcp3D6NTZAyn9c6I0SBU6Ca-I46ElkTFvLph2bx0Q1uwNNeEbodmFMOd3SHGRxoRo9bxytcpUpZnGow/s1600/liquor-ban.jpg" title="Hot Topic! Duterte's First Orders - Liqour Ban, Curfew, No Smoking" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> DAVAO CITY, Philippines – Incoming president Rodrigo Duterte is ready to work with Congress to implement nationwide the curfew for minors, liquor ban, and no-smoking ordinances he has enforced as mayor of this city.<br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Large --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-slot="3053760250" style="display: inline-block; height: 280px; width: 336px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /> <br /> When asked what would be his first order as president, Duterte replied, “The very fundamentals of society – curfew, no drinking beyond 1 o’clock.”<br /> <br /> “I’ll ask if I would need a national law. If I have the authority under the broad police power of the state, maybe I can (implement them). But if it is inadequate legally, I will ask Congress (to pass a law),” Duterte said in a press briefing Saturday night here.<br /> <br /> “Why should we drink until 2 a.m.? Is this a drinking contest?” he added.<br /> <br /> Duterte said he wants to implement the liquor ban because employees of establishments like waiters, cooks and cashiers also need to rest.<br /> <br /> He said he would also prohibit smoking in public places.<br /> <br /> “They say that they are using their money for the cigarettes. Look, if you’re not an idiot, you know that when you smoke in enclosed restaurants or offices, you pass off cancer to others,” the incoming president said. <br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Large --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-slot="3053760250" style="display: inline-block; height: 280px; width: 336px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /> <br /> “It’s not fair for you to distribute cancer. It is scientifically proven beyond doubt that it (smoking) causes cancer,” he added.<br /> <br /> Duterte implemented the no-smoking, liquor ban and curfew ordinances during his more than 20- year stint as mayor. <br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Link ads --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-format="link" data-ad-slot="6029612651" style="display: block;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /> <br />

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Hot News! Duterte challenges Catholic Church’s stand on family planning

<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtj-5lbYQwmNL5e7cMYtjcY4QDuO0XvLBMl6XMLwTuSa_kXVgs2xZgaZAGp7Ie7BxGRaimu_jBanXnRDjugbhGKnZ6zEFmcCc8ORvTQUz3gtom_qzHhTimIUKJS7IvjhczQWVrLl-zj4Q/s1600/duterte+defies.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Hot News! Duterte defies Catholic Church’s belief on family planning" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtj-5lbYQwmNL5e7cMYtjcY4QDuO0XvLBMl6XMLwTuSa_kXVgs2xZgaZAGp7Ie7BxGRaimu_jBanXnRDjugbhGKnZ6zEFmcCc8ORvTQUz3gtom_qzHhTimIUKJS7IvjhczQWVrLl-zj4Q/s1600/duterte+defies.jpg" title="Hot News! Duterte defies Catholic Church’s belief on family planning" /></a></div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span> <h3> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mayor curses at church, calls it most 'hypocritical institution'</span></span></h3> <br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Large --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-slot="3053760250" style="display: inline-block; height: 280px; width: 336px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /> <br /> <div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span><br /> <div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">DAVAO CITY — Despite strong opposition from the Catholic Church, presumptive President-elect Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday said he would push for family planning, saying the Church’s beliefs were no longer relevant.</span></span></div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span><br /> <div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span><br /> <div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“It will do us good. Mas maraming magawa ‘yan, walang kasamaan ‘yan (It will accomplish many things, it won’t do any harm). Ako naman, I said, I am a Christian but I am a realist and we have to do something about overpopulation,” Duterte told reporters.</span></span></div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span><br /> <div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span><br /> <div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He said he might offend the religious sector with his statements but he said their “fundamental beliefs do not solve the problem of our country anymore.”</span></span></div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span><br /> <div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span><br /> <div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“I take the opposite view; I defy the opinion or the belief of the Church,” he said. He said the scriptures in the Bible cited by his critics were no longer relevant to society.</span></span></div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span><br /> <div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span><br /> <div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“The ideas there (were) written 2000 years ago and it does not relate or find relevance to our society,” he said.</span></span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“I don’t give much importance to the spiritual; walang maitutulong iyan, sa totoo lang (It won’t help, to tell you the truth). What you should worry about is how you suffer here on this planet. You do not worry about suffering after you make the exit,” he added.</span></span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Earlier, Duterte said that he believes in God but not necessarily in religion. “The best thing is just to prepare and pray to God when you are alone and in a quiet room,” he said. “I have this deep and abiding faith in God. But this does not mean that you have to have a religion or follow somebody,” he added.</span></span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <h4> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Not moving</span></span></h4> <div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Duterte said the family planning program of the government is not moving forward because the country’s leaders always refer to the beliefs of the Catholic Church.</span></span><br /> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“It (family planning) is not moving because the President has referred always to the stand of the Roman Catholic Church,” he said, adding that politicians were afraid.</span></span><br /> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He said in Davao City, family planning is “vigorously implemented,” where free contraceptives were given.</span></span></div> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /><br /><center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Large --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-slot="3053760250" style="display: inline-block; height: 280px; width: 336px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /><br /><h4> <br />Blasts at Catholic Church</h4> <div> <br /></div> <div> Duterte also slammed the Catholic Church, particularly bishops who womanize and have luxurious lifestyles.<br /> <br /></div> <div> “If I start (naming) the bishops who got married and have women in their lives, sasabog itong Catholic Church (the Catholic Church will explode),” he said.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> He cited the bishops embroiled in a controversy during the Arroyo administration who were reported to have received Mitsubishi Pajeros from the administration. “Panahon ni Gloria Arroyo, naghingian kayo ng (personal favors)… that is graft and corruption,” he said.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> “’Yung mga tao dito sa Pilipinas walang makain, walang medisina (while) you were enjoying the money of the god**** people of the Philippines. P***** i** kayo! ‘Di na kayo nahiya niyan? Tapos kung magsalita kayo, akala niyo kung sino?” he said.<br /> <br /> (The Filipinos don’t have anything to eat and have no medicines (while) you were enjoying the money of the god**** people of the Philippines. [expletive] Aren’t you ashamed of yourselves? And who do you think you are when you speak?)</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> He urged the Catholic Church to have a debate with him and said, “I will lecture until June 29 the sins of the Catholic Church and whether or not you are still relevant,” he said, calling the Church the most “hypocritical institution.”<br /> <br /> Source: <a href="http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/786977/duterte-defies-catholic-churchs-belief-on-family-planning" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">inquirer.net</a></div> </span></span></div> <br /> <br /> <center> <script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PNT Link ads --><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1900446417817686" data-ad-format="link" data-ad-slot="6029612651" style="display: block;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></center> <br /> <br />

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