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Manila Bulletin - Saturday, November 21

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  • A South African prostitute waits for a client on a Johannesburg street corner. Cape Town has set up a vice squad tasked with

    Prostitutes fear S.Africa's World Cup clean-up

    AFP - Saturday, November 21

    JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - - Jabulisile works the streets in Hillbrow, a rough area normally avoided by tourists, but just a stone's throw from one of the World Cup stadiums that she hopes will bring in visitors looking for sex.

  • Bystanders watch as soldiers prepare to sacrifice a buffalo during a Hindu festival in Kathmandu. The legendary French movie star turned animal rights campaigner Brigitte Bardot has written to Nepal's president urging him to stop a mass animal sacrifice from going ahead next week.

    Bardot urges end to animal sacrifice in Nepal

    AFP - Friday, November 20

    KATHMANDU (AFP) - - The legendary French movie star turned animal rights campaigner Brigitte Bardot has written to Nepal's president urging him to stop a mass animal sacrifice from going ahead next week.

  • File photo shows Israelis from the Ethiopian community with photographs of their relatives during a demonstration against the government's decision to close down the operation to bring Jewish Ethiopians to Israel. There are more than 120,000 Ethiopian Jews in Israel, and many feel they are still treated like second-class citizens.

    Ethiopian Jews in Israel still await Promised Land

    AFP - Friday, November 20

    JERUSALEM (AFP) - - The ancient hymns brought tears to the eyes of Solomon Ayeli, as well as memories of his native Ethiopia which he left two decades ago for Israel -- a country he loves but where he often feels rejected.

  • The Canadian-US border in Stanstead, Canada. Stanstead and Derby Line, Vermont on the US side have always functioned as one village sharing not only city services but family and neighbors, but now , new border crossing measures by the US Department of Homeland Security have split the town in two, requiring residents to show their passports

    'Passport please': new fences for a border town

    AFP - Friday, November 20

    STANSTEAD, Canada (AFP) - - Canadians in Stanstead and Americans across the border in Derby Line, Vermont once lived in harmony as one community, mostly ignoring the imaginary line that separates them.

  • Yaya Troubles

    Manila Bulletin - Friday, November 20

    Q. Dearest Dawn,

    I am having trouble with my yaya.

  • Heel Fetish

    Manila Bulletin - Friday, November 20

    Twenty-one-year-old student Rachelle Lim has a different love affair with heels.

  • Heavy Reading

    Manila Bulletin - Friday, November 20

    So I just finished rereading Seb Hunter's Hell Bent for Leather.

  • A patron eating popcorn at a US movie theater. Nutritional analysis of popcorn servings at some of America's biggest cinema chains has found mind-boggling calorie counts that may surprise consumers who think of the snack as a relatively healthy treat.

    Cinema popcorn is nutritional horror show: US study

    AFP - Friday, November 20

    LOS ANGELES (AFP) - - Forget Freddy Krueger or flesh-eating zombies: the real villain of a night at the movies could be lurking in a bag of popcorn or drinks carton, according to a new US study.

  • All-star free concert launches Mabuting Pilipino

    Manila Bulletin - Friday, November 20

    More than a dozen bands will rock the night away to clamor for change that our society needs as they launch the Mabuting Pilipino on Friday, Nov. 20, 4 p.m. onwards, at the Megatent, Meralco ave,. Ortigas, Pasig.

    Performing in this free concert are the bands South Border, Holden, Jab, Toyo, Camerawalls, Jazz & Friends, Pamilia Dimaguiba, Miscellaneous, J-Will, Godswill, Miko Pepito, Turbo Goth, Bernadettes,
    3rd Charm, Mista Blaze, Ill-J, People's Future, Gentle Isolation, Urban Flow, Sly Kane, New System Dancers, and many more.

    A new movement, equally inspiring as the lyrics of Noel Cabangon's song "Ako Ay Mabuting Pilipino", Mabuting Pilipino has been born to fully embrace the values of being the "mabuting Pilipino," and choose the next leaders that would restore the people's faith in government and help in the transformation of society.

    "Mabuting Pilipino, the movement, is the perfect marriage between the song and the proactive stance we choose to take in initiating the change that is needed in our society," explains Mabuting Pilipino movement spokesperson Candace Giron.

  • Any future for historical cities?

    Manila Bulletin - Friday, November 20

    For cities on the cusp of economic development, is there really a place for crumbling centuries-old buildings?

    This was the question experts from the Philippines and Spain attempted to answer at a round-table discussion on urbanism and better living entitled "Any Future for Historical Cities", the closing event of the First International Conference on the Manila Galleon and Port Cities mounted recently by the Intramuros Administration.

    Finding the balance between economic development and preserving vestiges of the past was the main concern of the speakers at the forum which included Spain's National Awardee for Urbanism Francisco Pol; Spanish sociologist and urban planner Carlos Lles Lazo; FEATI University College of Architecture dean Joy Mananghaya; and leading Filipino expert on heritage rehabilitation Mico Manalo of the Escuela Taller.

    Dean Mananghaya, for instance, focused on Quiapo's Carlos Palanca street which is today dotted with illegal businesses and haphazardly parked vehicles.

  • The head of India's biggest company Reliance Industries, Mukesh Ambani, seen here in 2008, is once again the wealthiest person in India. The number of billionaires in India almost doubled in the past 12 months to 52, mainly thanks to a recovery in global stock markets, a richlist from US magazine Forbes showed Thursday.

    Indian billionaires bounce back: Forbes

    AFP - Friday, November 20

    NEW DELHI (AFP) - - The number of billionaires in India almost doubled in the past 12 months to 52, mainly thanks to a recovery in global stock markets, a richlist from US magazine Forbes showed Thursday.

  • Women competing in a high-heel race in January 2009. A total 96 shoe addicts, a common condition with fashionistas, have signed up for Friday evening's National Stiletto Championship, taking place after office hours on an indoor track in the old stock exchange building in central Paris.

    Glam challenge: 96 competitors in Paris stiletto race

    AFP - Friday, November 20

    PARIS (AFP) - - The only rule is to be perched on heels at least eight centimetres (three inches) high -- the prize is boxes and boxes of shoes.

  • An employee is seen with rice in his hand at the GIE Delta linguer factory in Ross Bethio. The food crisis, difficult access to Asian rice production and high consumption rice in the country lead to focus on local production in Senegal.

    Eat local rice? Senegalese say no thanks

    AFP - Thursday, November 19

    DAKAR (AFP) - - The look on restaurant owner Mame Couma Tandjigora's face tells the story.

  • An Indian man is seen urinating in a Mumbai alley. In slum areas, where more than half of Mumbai lives, an average of 81 people share a single toilet. In some places it rises to an eye-watering 273. Even the lowest average is still 58, according to local municipal authority figures.

    In modern India, 600 million lack toilets

    AFP - Thursday, November 19

    MUMBAI (AFP) - - No one would ever call Radha Jagarya fortunate.

  • 16-year-old Australian Jessica Watson (pictured in October), bidding to become the youngest solo round-the-world sailor, crossed the equator on Thursday, in what her supporters dubbed a

    Record-bidding Aussie teen sailor crosses equator

    AFP - Thursday, November 19

    SYDNEY (AFP) - - An Australian schoolgirl bidding to become the youngest solo round-the-world sailor crossed the equator on Thursday, in what her supporters dubbed a "significant landmark" in her record attempt.

  • Haruzo Urakawa (right), the chairman of Japan's Ainu Association of Hokkaido, and other Ainu community members perform a spiritual ceremony called

    Japan's native Ainu fight for cultural survival

    AFP - Thursday, November 19

    TOKYO (AFP) - - Japan's native people, the Ainu, once hunted bears and fished for salmon in the wild forests of the country's far north, but today they are an ethnic minority fighting for their cultural survival.

  • Style for a Cause

    Manila Bulletin - Thursday, November 19

    October 11, 2009 at Studio 10 of ABS-CBN, Star Magic, spearheaded by Johnny Manahan, Mariole Albert, and Keren Pascual, launched the "Magic for a Cause" charity event participated in by the fashion industry's top players to raise funds for the victims of typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng.

  • Luxury brands look online

    Manila Bulletin - Thursday, November 19

    London- Angela Ahrendts still remembers when she bought her first Burberry trench coat.

  • The Ultimate Statement Tee

    Manila Bulletin - Thursday, November 19

    A project that has been in the works for the past year, Oh-We're-So-Filipino (OWSF) finally launched its first line of proud-to-be-Pinoy shirts.

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