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• Gemma Gatdula Wins the Search for the Next White Castle Girl

  Published: July 30, 2007, 5:02 am

  Tags: Philippines Next Top Model, Kapamilya, Beautiful Pinays

  She may have lost the title Philippine’s Next Top Model and got eliminated early in the show but Gemma Gatdula persisted and recently she won another reality-based model competition - the Search for the Next White Castle Girl. Gemma survived being kicked by a white horse, getting burned by fire and getting bitten by snake and other weird

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• Dancing Inmates of Cebu, Philippines

  Published: August 2, 2007, 2:00 pm

  Tags: Odd Videos, Philippines Home, Music

  at the prison in Cebu, Philippines practicing a dance number for Michael Jackson's thriller. Maybe it isn't as productive as someone might want, but at least the inmates aren't getting into trouble! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5nZcFIf3qc Articles With Related Content:Filipino Music Enrique Iglesias - Hero The Black Eyed

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• Spate of attacks alarms local Indian community

  Published: August 5, 2007, 1:44 pm

  Tags: General, Aliens, Indians, Indian Community, Philippines

  BUMBAY has been the generic, albeit politically incorrect name we use when referring to Indian nationals, who have been part of the Philippine landscape for decades now. The bulk of them function as our kababayan's friendly moneylender, propping up local economies even during the harshest days of the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s

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• ‘An onerous Austrian legacy’

  Published: August 3, 2007, 11:34 pm

  Tags: Pcij Image Galleries, Public Health, In The News, Austrian Government, Clean Air Act, Department Of Health, Hoval Incinerators, Philippines, Vamed Engineering

  IN 1995, the Department of Health, through a P504-million loan extended by Bank Austria, acquired 26 incinerators to help improve the management of medical waste in its controlled hospitals in the country. The medical waste incinerators, touted as “state-of-the-art” technology, were manufactured by Liechtenstein-based Hoval and were

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• Filipinos paying P90M a year for junked hospital waste incinerators

  Published: August 3, 2007, 1:00 am

  Tags: Public Health, Governance, Science Technology, In The News, Austrian Government, Bank Austria, Clean Air Act, Department Of Health, Hoval Incinerators, Philippines, Vamed Engineering

  REMEMBER the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant? As the biggest power generation project ever undertaken in Philippine history during the time of Marcos, the nuclear plant occupying a 370-hectare complex in Morong, Bataan remains the country’s biggest white elephant. Built at an original cost of US$1.109 billion by Westinghouse through a loan from

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• Koreans want to be friendly neighbors, not ‘invaders’

  Published: August 2, 2007, 7:14 am

  Tags: In The News, Bureau Of Immigration, Koreans, Korean Embassy, Philippines

  THE majority of Koreans in the country may be temporary visitors, but the 100,000 or so Korean residents in the country would like to be seen as friends. “Koreans are trying to put down roots. Please don’t take them for invaders. They are friends of this country, contributors to this country,” said South Korean consul general

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• Will Koko suffer his father’s fate?

  Published: July 31, 2007, 8:10 am

  Tags: 2007 Elections, In The News, 2007 Elections, Aquilino Pimentel Iii, Aquilino Pimentel Jr, Dagdag Bawas, Juan Miguel Zubiri, Philippines, Senate, Senate Electoral Tribunal

  WILL lightning strike twice for the Pimentels in the Senate Electoral Tribunal (SET)? The Supreme Court’s 7-7 resolution in Aquilino Pimentel III vs. Commission on Elections, where Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III sought, but failed, to suspend the proclamation of Juan Miguel Zubiri as the 12th winning senator during the last

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• Mangyan and proud of it

  Published: July 26, 2007, 3:13 am

  Tags: I Report Features, Indigenous Peoples, Mangyan, Oriental Mindoro, Philippines, Renato Zosimo Evangelista

  HIS name may not ring a bell to most Filipinos, but to the Mangyan Renato Zosimo Evangelista is a great man — and one they are proud of. Only 34, Evangelista is the first Mangyan to become a lawyer, and he says he will use his knowledge to help his people. The Mangyan are among the [...]

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• A suitable home

  Published: August 6, 2007, 11:46 am

  Tags: I Report Features, Pcij Investigative Reports, Indians, Indian Community, Philippines, Sikh, Sikhism

  BY most historical accounts, Indians arrived in the Philippines in the late 19th century. But little may be known about the fact that the first group actually came much earlier, when British forces, together with about 600 Indian sepoys (native troops), invaded Manila and defeated Spain in 1762. When the war ended in 1764, the [...]

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• JI-trained bombmaker or HSA victim?

  Published: August 7, 2007, 6:52 am

  Tags: Human Rights, In The News, Human Rights, Human Security Act, Jemaah Islamiyah, Karahudin Usman Talib, Philippines

  IS Karahudin Usman Talib a bombmaker trained by the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) or the first victim of the Human Security Act of 2007 (HSA or R.A. 9372)? Southern Police District (SPD) Chief Supt. Roberto Rosales said that Talib was the right-hand man of JI leader Zulkifli bin Hir, alias Marwan, and “Filipino extremist” Basit Usman, [...]

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• Medicine woman

  Published: August 8, 2007, 1:18 pm

  Tags: I Report Features, Dr Fe Del Mundo, Philippines, Ramon Magsaysay Awards

  SHE was a woman way ahead of her time, but one can also say that Dr. Fe del Mundo, M.D., is a woman for all time. Now 95 years old, she has devoted most of her life to pediatrics and maternal health, in the process changing the lives of millions of people. She is credited for [...]

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• Another AdSense Plugin and More

  Published: August 9, 2007, 10:47 am

  Tags: Philippines Home, Wordpress Plugins, Philippines Government

  an American in the Philippines has its Disadvantages

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• Soldiers in the midst of Political conspiracy

  Published: August 10, 2007, 4:01 pm

  Tags: Philippines, Smiling, Terrorists, Military, Beheading, Basilan, Justice, Brink

  Take a close look at this photo, the captive’s name is Buhari Jamiri, he’s one of the suspects in the 10 July beheading of 10 Marines in Basilan island, is escorted by agents of the National Bureau of Investigation shortly after arriving at the Department of Justice in Manila. WTF is he smiling at, he’s been smiling since he was

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• Arroyo’s legacy may include more mothers put at risk

  Published: August 12, 2007, 5:40 am

  Tags: I Report Features, Pcij Investigative Reports, Catholic Church, Family Planning, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Philippines, Population Policy, Reproductive Health

  PAST presidents have given priority to population management, seeing it as a vital part of economic development. Under the administration of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo whose family planning policy consists of pushing only for natural methods, the responsibility of providing artificial contraceptives has however been tossed to local governments, many

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• Inequality growing in Asia; ‘fairly stable’ in the Philippines

  Published: August 13, 2007, 5:45 am

  Tags: The Economy, Governance, Asia, Asian Development Bank, Income Inequality, Philippines

  as the Philippines and 14 other developing countries in Asia are experiencing considerable measures of economic growth, there still is little reason to celebrate. This is because recent gains in the levels of expenditure have also come with increasing income inequalities between the rich and the poor, according to a recent Asian Development

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