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- Gabriela, other party-list groups laud Ai Ai for baring husband's abuse
Several party-list groups admired comedienne Ai-Ai de las Alas for her big confession on Sunday.
- UNA: We fought a good fight
The United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) has formally congratulated Team PNoy for leading nine of its candidates to victory in the 2013 senatorial polls.
- CF cards during elections 'may have been corrupted', says Comelec
Compact flash (CF) cards used during the May 13 elections may have been corrupted on purpose to delay the transmission of results, the poll chief said.
- The top 25 party-list winning the 2013 elections
Winners in the party-list race have yet to be announced eight days after the May 13 elections, but a poll commissioner has bared the 25 leaders in the race.
- First impressions: Lenovo K900, an Intel Atom-powered smartphone
Is the 5.5-inch smartphone all good looks and no substance?
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Senator-elect Joseph Victor “JV” Ejercito Estrada can’t wait to perform his duties in the Senate.
- Zest Air cancels Kalibo-Taiwan flights
Political tensions between Manila and Taipei are apparently making the Philippines less fun for Taiwanese tourists.
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- CF cards during elections 'may have been corrupted', says Comelec Yahoo! Southeast Asia Newsroom
Compact flash (CF) cards used during the May 13 elections may have been corrupted on purpose to delay the transmission of results, the poll chief said.
- The top 25 party-list winning the 2013 elections Yahoo! Southeast Asia Newsroom
Winners in the party-list race have yet to be announced eight days after the May 13 elections, but a poll commissioner has bared the 25 leaders in the race.
- Ramos urges neutral probe of Taiwan incident, reminds Pinoys of Contemplacion case The Inbox
By Ellen Tordesillas, VERA Files MAKASSAR, Indonesia—Former President Fidel V. Ramos has recommended the creation of a neutral investigation on the May 9 encounter between a Philippine patrol ship and Taiwanese fishing vessel in the disputed maritime boundary that resulted … Continue reading →
- Analysis: From opera to exercises, U.S. and China deepen military ties Reuters
By Peter Apps, Political Risk Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Even as the United States accuses China of military espionage and worries about Beijing's more strident posture in the Asia-Pacific region, the ties between the armed forces of the two nations have been getting closer. Direct contact between China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) and some of its potential adversaries has increased dramatically in the last two years. The first major public sign of the thaw was a joint concert by
- AirAsia net profit falls nearly 40 percent in 1st quarter AFP News
AirAsia, Asia's largest low-cost carrier by fleet size, said Wednesday that first-quarter net profit fell 39 percent year-on-year due to a foreign exchange loss on borrowings.
By Rachelle Younglai and Caren Bohan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate panel on Tuesday approved legislation to give millions of illegal immigrants a path to citizenship, setting up a spirited debate ...
- N. Korea 'special envoy' in China meeting AFP News
A top North Korean general and confidant of leader Kim Jong-Un met a senior Chinese official in Beijing Wednesday, with relations between the allies strained ahead of a China-US summit.
- China, Pakistan plan 'economic corridor': Li AFP News
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang Wednesday linked growth in his country's restive west with that in sluggish Pakistan, saying the two sides wanted to create an "economic corridor" to boost development.
- Assad has no role in future of Syria, powers say AFP News
World powers early Thursday vowed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had no role in the future of Syria and pledged to boost support to the opposition until a transitional government is in place.
- Guatemala's Maya outraged at genocide ruling annulment AFP News
Native Mayas who survived massacres during Guatemala's 1960-1996 civil war voiced outrage Wednesday at the overturning of the genocide conviction of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt.
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The H7N9 virus appears to have been brought under control in China largely due to restrictions at bird markets, but caused some $6.5 billion in losses to the economy, U.N. experts said on Tuesday. Health authorities worldwide must be on the lookout to detect the virus, the experts said, which could still develop the ability to spread easily among humans and cause a deadly influenza pandemic. ...
- Bank of Japan says no new easing measures AFP News
The Bank of Japan on Wednesday held off fresh easing measures, saying after a two-day policy meeting that a continuation of steps introduced last month would help Japan overcome deflation.
- Japan posts worst April trade deficit AFP News
Japan on Wednesday posted its worst April trade deficit as a weak yen ramped up import costs and helped extend the run of monthly shortfalls to the longest in more than three decades.
- Los Angeles calls upon star French designers for 'Figaro' opera Reuters
By Eric Kelsey LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Count Almaviva, muscles bulging and resplendent in white, struts like a peacock across the stage belting his baritone at his countess, who sits in a flowing red gown against a sparse backdrop of sleek, modernist lines. It is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro." But unlike the countless productions of the 1786 opera, the Los Angeles Philharmonic has handed the reins over to star French architect Jean Nouvel and fashion designer Azzedine Alaia
- HP raises 2013 outlook as Whitman's plan takes hold Reuters
By Poornima Gupta SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co raised its 2013 earnings outlook after quarterly results beat low expectations, as CEO Meg Whitman's turnaround plan helped offset shrinking personal computer sales with enterprise computing services. While fiscal second-quarter profit plummeted 32 percent, Wall Street had braced for worse. HP shares gained 14 percent after the company projected full-year earnings per share of $3.50 to $3.60, raising the lower end by 10 cents, and
- Officially official: HTC One, coming to PH stores May 24 Yahoo! Southeast Asia Newsroom
Is HTC's make-or-break device too late to the Philippine Android party?
- First impressions: Lenovo K900, an Intel Atom-powered smartphone Yahoo! Southeast Asia Newsroom
Is the 5.5-inch smartphone all good looks and no substance?
- Xbox One vs. PlayStation 4: PS4 wins on specs BGR.com
With the first round of announcements behind us, the only thing that’s clear in the inevitable and perpetual Xbox One vs. PlayStation 4 battle is that there is no clear winner. Microsoft finally unveiled its next-generation video game console on Tuesday and once all the dust settled, Anandtech’s Anand Lal Shimpi took a step back and laid out everything we know about these two beastly consoles. Lal Shimpi’s analysis is extensive and thorough, as always, but it boils down to this: Based on what
- Factbox - Apple, Amazon, Google and tax avoidance schemes Reuters
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European leaders meet on Wednesday to discuss tax policy and specifically their concerns over how a number of high-profile international companies have managed to pay next to no tax on their vast sales revenue generated in Europe. Following is a summary of several recent cases and links to the Reuters stories on each one. APPLE INC. An investigation by the U.S. ...
- The HTC One Isn't Saving HTC from the Facebook Phone The Atlantic Wire
Despite all the glowing reviews of the HTC One, including all the reviews for the Samsung Galaxy S IV that ended up championing all the great things about the HTC One instead, HTC is currently falling apart — at least in part because of "disastrous" sales that wiped the HTC First (aka the Facebook phone) on its way out of the market. Two top executives have quit amid the company's decline: HTC's chief product officer, Kouji Kodera, left last week, sources tell The Verge's Chris Ziegler, while
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Former Comelec exec bares ‘intel’ funds
By Mikha Flores, VERA Files First it was the source code for the PCOS machines they were quarrelling about. Now former colleagues, Commission on Elections Chairman Sixto Brillantes, Jr. and Augusto “Gus” Lagman are squabbling about intelligence funds. Lagman, who … Continue reading → More »
Comelec threw efforts of PWDs to waste—NCDA exec
By Darlene Cay, VERA Files Efforts of persons with disabilities and advocates in promoting the right of PWDs to suffrage went to waste in last week’s midterm elections, no thanks to the Commission on Elections, the executive director of National … Continue reading → More »
PNoy to Comelec: Proceed with barangay polls
By Mikha Flores, VERA Files President Benigno Aquino III said on Tuesday the country should proceed with the scheduled barangay election this October instead of postponing it, as suggested by the Commission on Elections. “I’m nervous about the postponement. There … Continue reading → More »
Comelec, poll watchdog trade accusations
By Mark Pere Madrona, VERA Files The verbal tussle between the Commission on Elections and the Automated Election System (AES) Watch over the conduct of the mid-term election further intensified on Tuesday after the watchdog called for the resignation of … Continue reading → More »
Voting assistors: Helping PWDS or manipulating votes?
By Yen Blanco Delgado and Barry Barraca, VERA Files ZAMBOANGA CITY— An abnormally high concentration of supposed persons with disabilities (PWD) voting in a single barangay sounded the alarm for volunteers of the Zamboanga City chapter of Legal Network for … Continue reading → More »
MILF to set up political party this year
By Carolyn O. Arguillas, MindaNews and VERA Files DARAPANAN, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao – The victory of the President’s party in last week’s elections is victory for the peace process, Al Haj Murad Ebrahim, chair of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front … Continue reading → More »
ARMM’s Hataman vows to lower poverty incidence to ‘single-digit during our term’
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