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  • Comelec blames weak telecom signals for transmission delays
    Comelec blames weak telecom signals for transmission delays

    Some 18,000 precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines covering about 23 percent of the total clustered precincts experienced transmission problems on Election Day because of weak signals, Commission on Elections Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. said on Thursday. “It is not … Continue reading →

  • One more week of beach weather, Pagasa says Yahoo! Southeast Asia Newsroom
    One more week of beach weather, Pagasa says

    You still have at least a week to take advantage of the last few days in the dry season, state weather bureau Pagasa said.

  • First time MILF voters’ top senatorial choice: “Anak ni King” Tinig Ng Botante
    First time MILF voters’ top senatorial choice: “Anak ni King”

    By Carolyn O. Arguillas, MindaNews and VERA Files DARAPANAN, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao – “Anak ni King.” “Anak ni Idol.” Movie actor Fernando Poe, Jr. is nearly nine years dead but he is still “King” or “Idol” for members of the … Continue reading →

  • Insular Life’s new premiums grow by 178% in first quarter MB

    Insular Life reported yesterday that it continues to post record-breaking results in 2013. New business premiums for the first quarter from its agency force surged to P2.4 billion for a growth of 178 percent over the same period in 2012. New policies sold likewise increased by a hefty 48 percent.

  • Paulo Coelho appease Pinoys with warm tweet: 'your souls lead to the gates of heaven' MB

    Dan Brown might have not responded as yet to Metropolitan Manila Development Authority chairman Francis Tolentino's letter expressing disappointment over what he deemed as the author's "inaccurate" depiction of Manila in his latest novel, Inferno, but famed writer Paulo Coelho was only too quick to appease Pinoys with a warm tweet concerning the issue. ...

  • Obama wants to end 'war on terror' but Congress balks
    Obama wants to end 'war on terror' but Congress balks

    * Republicans push back on closing Guantanamo * Americans' main concerns are economy, domestic issues * Congress controls government's purse strings (Recasts with Republican reaction) By Patricia Zengerle and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON, May 24 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama wantsto roll back some of the most controversial aspects of the U.S."war on terror," but efforts to alter the global fight againstIslamist militants will face the usual hurdle at home: staunchopposition from Republicans

  • N. Korea wants peace, envoy tells China official AFP News
    N. Korea wants peace, envoy tells China official

    A special envoy from North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un told one of China's top officials Thursday that Pyongyang wants peace and is willing to pursue dialogue with key countries, state media reported.

  • Truck crash caused Washington state bridge collapse: officials Reuters
    Truck crash caused Washington state bridge collapse: officials

    By Elaine Porterfield MOUNT VERNON, Washington (Reuters) - A bridge collapse that sent cars and drivers plunging into the frigid Skagit River in Washington state, raising concerns about the safety of the nation's aging infrastructure, was caused when a truck crashed into at least one girder, officials said on Friday. The truck, after the accident, rumbled across the bridge safely before a portion of the structure collapsed, sending two vehicles and a mass of concrete and steel into the river on

  • Pair grilled after UK fighter jets escort Pakistani plane AFP News
    Pair grilled after UK fighter jets escort Pakistani plane

    Two men arrested on a Pakistan International Airlines plane after fighter jets were scrambled to escort it to a London airport remained in custody Saturday for questioning by the police.

  • Syria regime to attend peace talks: Russia AFP News
    Syria regime to attend peace talks: Russia

    Russia's announcement that the Damascus regime has agreed to attend an international peace conference on the Syrian crisis has been met by scepticism among the fractured opponents of President Bashar al-Assad.

  • New bird flu may be capable of human to human spread - study
    New bird flu may be capable of human to human spread - study

    By Lavinia Mo HONG KONG (Reuters) - The new H7N9 bird flu virus can be transmitted between mammals not only via direct contact but also in airborne droplets, and may be capable of spreading from person to person, Chinese and American researchers have found. A study published in the journal Science and presented at a briefing in Hong Kong on Friday found that three ferrets - an animal often used for research on flu - that were in the same cage as ferrets infected with H7N9 had contracted the

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  • Albay governor’s ‘bangka’ good to go

    By REYNARD MAGTOTO, VERA Files LEGAZPI City—After assuring Bicolanos that no one will be left behind in Albay’s surge to prosperity, reelected Gov. Joey SarteSalceda said he is ready to “paddle the boat” to fulfilling his vision for the province. … Continue reading → More »

  • Comelec proclaims 14 party-lists

    By Mikha Flores, VERA Files The Commission on Elections proclaimed on Friday 14 winning party-lists that are assured of at least one seat in the 16th Congress after obtaining two percent of the total votes cast for all party-lists in the … Continue reading → More »

  • Q and A with MILF chair Al Haj Murad Ebrahim: “Within this year we will start building our political …

    By Carolyn O. Arguillas, Mindanews and VERA Files DARAPANAN, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao – The May 13 synchronized national, regional and local elections marked the Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s first foray into electoral politics, albeit only partly, as a “testing ground,” … Continue reading → More »

  • First time MILF voters’ top senatorial choice: “Anak ni King”

    By Carolyn O. Arguillas, MindaNews and VERA Files DARAPANAN, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao – “Anak ni King.” “Anak ni Idol.” Movie actor Fernando Poe, Jr. is nearly nine years dead but he is still “King” or “Idol” for members of the … Continue reading → More »

  • Comelec blames weak telecom signals for transmission delays

    Some 18,000 precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines covering about 23 percent of the total clustered precincts experienced transmission problems on Election Day because of weak signals, Commission on Elections Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. said on Thursday. “It is not … Continue reading → More »

  • 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 »