Five other buses grounded: Charges filed vs operator, driver
Charges of reckless imprudence resulting to multiple homicide and physical injuries were filed yesterday against the driver and operator of the bus that figured in an accident last Saturday in Barrio Don Andres Soriano, Toledo City.
Roadworthiness test ordered for city vehicles
Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama has ordered for the immediate inventory and roadworthiness testing of all vehicles owned by the city government to ensure that everything is functioning well to avoid accidents.
Kaohsiung buses to be used in Metro Cebu only
CEBU City Mayor Michael Rama will inspect starting today all city-owned vehicles to make sure they are roadworthy, as he signed an order limiting the use of the City's fleet of Kaohsiung buses to Metro Cebu towns and cities.
Fire destroys four houses in Lawaan
A fire over the weekend destroyed four residential houses in sitio Pungsod, barangay Lawaan 3, Talisay City damaging about P200,000 worth of property.
DILG-7 director assumes as mayor of Compostela
Department of Interior and Local Government-7 Regional Director Pedro Noval formally assumed office yesterday afternoon as acting mayor of Compostela town.
Governor meets PB in inaugural session
Cebu Governor Gwen Garcia gave a status report on the implementation of the 12-point agenda of her administration, and asked members of the Provincial Board for their support and cooperation through legislative measures during yesterday's inaugural session of the PB.
Gwen, Greg ask for cooperation
CEBU Province's top two officials pledged at the Provincial Board's (PB) inaugural session yesterday to set aside personal and political differences, for their constituents' sake.
Mandaue SP to meet for inaugural session
The newly elected Mandaue City council will meet for its 12th Sangguniang Panlungsod inaugural session at 2 o'clock this afternoon.
Radaza determined to pursue recla project
Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Paz Radaza yesterday said she will push through with the Mactan North Reclamation and Development Project, the project initiated by her husband, former mayor Arturo Radaza and now congressman of the lone district of Lapu-Lapu.
"Tardy" Toledo fiscal won't get allowance
A prosecutor of Toledo City will not receive his allowance this month after the Supreme Court granted the letter endorsed by Regional State Prosecutor Fernando Gubalane withholding his allowance.
According to Gubalane the prosecutor did not resolve the cases he handled within the allowed 60-day timeframe.
The prosecutor, who was not named by Gubalane, has 20 cases pending.
Gubalane further said that the prosecutor can receive his allowance after he has resolved the 20 cases.
However Gubalane admitted that there are prosecutors who exceed in the timeframe and they give extension if they evaluate the case. But then if there is no valid reason why the prosecutors did not resolve the case within the timeframe he will immediately endorse a letter to the Supreme Court to withhold the allowances of the prosecutor.
City tourism director now protocol officer
Teachers still waiting for honorarium for census service
QC court junks request for TRO vs sex education
New DA secretary hopes to end rice imports in three years
DA: Sugar shortage 'not that huge'
DoJ stalls Arroyo probe; waits for Truth Commission
Pagcor chief stops P26-million 'illegal disbursement'
DPWH chief: Beating corruption a mission
Justice head to review anti-smuggling campaign
New DOTC chief vows "transparency and level playing field"
Aquino spokesman seeks more talking heads
Baldoz takes over as labor secretary
MANILA, PhilippinesCareer labor executive Rosalinda Baldoz officially took over the post of the secretary of the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) on Monday morning.
She vowed to focus on overseas workers' welfare, strengthening homeland employment, and boosting the employability of new graduates in line with President Benigno Aquino IIIs promises.
In well-attended rites at the DoLE office in Intramuros Monday morning, former Labor Secretary Marianito Roque turned over his post to Baldoz and cited the leadership advantage of those who have toiled long years in the department.
Our formative years in the department gave us the maturity to lead. If I had not experienced this, I would have had a tough time in the department, said Roque.
Baldoz called the task daunting but promised to immediately buckle down to work.
The new labor secretary is now completing a report on the state of her department as President Aquino had requested all his Cabinet secretaries to do so in their first meeting last week.
She also promised to maintain close engagement with the labor sector, including civil society and workers' organizations.
The President is correct in saying that the people are our real bosses, Baldoz said.
ILO pledges to help Philippines generate decent jobs
DOH takes steps to professionalize massage therapy
Angara: Aquino must reconcile with Villar
House reorganization just a formality
28 apply for lone Supreme Court vacancy
21 diplomats appointed by GMA to stay put
Aquino to consider foreign trips when domestic issues settled
President Benigno Aquino III said today that he will consider going on a foreign trip only after he has addressed urgent "domestic matters."
Aquino orders 'review' of national defense
Air Force upgrade bill to require P7 billion
Militants call for junking of RP-US military pact over unexplained deaths
PNP mulls another body to look into media killings
Ampatuan patriarch allowed to undergo check-up at hospital
Lanao Sur gov asks abductors to free Yusoph son
ARMM bans smoking in government offices
Somali pirates hijack ship with 18 Filipinos on board: EU
South African gets 30 years for killing Filipina in UK
"Clinton Bailey, 36, seduced 37-year-old care worker Leah Questin by boasting of his high IQ and luxury lifestyle in his home country of South Africa," the site reported Monday afternoon.
Earlier, the British Broadcasting Co. (BBC) reported the suspect was arrested in the UK for the murder of Questin, whose body was found in a suitcase in a dried-up pond on farmland in Kent.
Questin was a care worker from London, but originally from the Philippines. She had been reported as a missing person on September 12 last year. That day she was seen on closed-circuit television traveling through London.
Questin was believed to have been dead for at least two weeks before the suitcase was found by a dog walker.
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Dollar remittances down by 2.4% on strong peso
Gov't loses P1B in revenues to steel smuggling
Energy Department stops Malampaya asset sale
Thai security officials seek extension to emergency rule
New York airport terminal evacuated after bomb scare—report
NEW YORKOfficials at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport evacuated one of its airport terminals after a bomb scare Sunday on one of the busiest US holiday travel days, ABC television reported.
ABC reported that authorities cleared JFK's Terminal 1, while hazardous materials experts and other emergency crews arrived at the scene.
The reported bomb scare took place on Independence Day, which marks the founding of the United States, and is a US national holiday.
Eight to be charged over Indonesian celebrity sex videos
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Aquino shoots guns during weekend
253 sirens confiscated, surrendered in less than a week
Kris: There's no third party in break-up
Don't take any (and I mean ANY) hula-hula seriously. It's easy to make hula-hula, anybody can do it, and all one has to do is watch showbiz talk shows and religiously read movie/tsismis columns and, voila, manghuhula ka na!
Does Kris Aquino believe in manghuhula ("turbanned" or not)?
I doubt it.
Insisting that there's no third party in her break-up with James Yap, Kris texted this message in reaction to speculations about the cause of it all: "Me? Involved with someone new? Or somebody gay involved with James?"
One manghuhula predicted that Kris would be linked to, according to what Kris heard, "a single, influential, famous and prominent politician." Who could he be? I have a guess but I won't tell you who.
Asked Kris, "Tito Ricky, may I know who this man is? Para I can make sure to stay away from him since pinag-uusapan na kami. Or for all we know, di ko s'ya kilala."
And what about a "younger man" daw?
"Last Friday," said Kris in another text message, "Zsa Zsa (Padilla) warned me na si Coco Martin naman ang pinag-uusapan na ili-link with me. Categorically, I can say that I have been 100 percent FAITHFUL in the five years of our marriage. Wala sa track record ko, Tito Ricky, na magloko. I don't think my soon-to-be ex can say the same thing."
Incidentally, Kris and sons Joshua and Baby James are leaving for a well-deserved vacation abroad any day now. Estranged husband James will be home.
Bad news to Kris detractors who want her to stay abroad for good: Kris and the kids are coming back.
Charice to conquer Vogue magazine
Lea Salonga purrs for Manila stage comeback
Online show host is Noynoy's distant niece
Juana Change vows to bust P. Noy's balls if...
Gerald Anderson fainted due to hyperventilation, says Kim
Body of chess legend Fischer exhumed in Iceland
REYKJAVIKIcelandic authorities exhumed the remains of chess legend Bobby Fischer on Monday in order to carry out a paternity test to settle a dispute over his estate, a local official said.
"I can confirm that Bobby Fischer's body was exhumed this morning," Olafur Helgi Kjartansson, the sheriff in the southern Icelandic town of Selfoss where Fischer had been buried, told AFP.
"The procedure was conducted in a highly professional and dignified manner," he said, adding that "it was a priority with everybody present to show respect to the deceased."
Fischer died on January 17, 2008 at the age of 64 and was buried in the cemetery of Laugardaelir Church, just outside Selfoss, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) east of Reykjavik.
A doctor and a priest were present when the body was exhumed, Kjartansson said, adding that it was his first time as a sheriff that he had been asked to carry out such a task.
Iceland's Supreme Court last month approved the disinterment of Fischer's body to test his DNA and establish if he was the father of nine-year-old Jinky Young, from the Philippines, as her mother claims.
Fischer's estate is estimated to be worth about $2 million (1.6 million) and is contested by three parties in addition to Young: his sister's two American sons; Japanese Myoko Watai, who claims to be his wife; and the US government, to whom he owed unpaid taxes.
US-born Fischer, who made world headlines when he defeated Soviet world champion Boris Spassky in their Cold War showdown in Reykjavik in 1972, took Icelandic citizenship in 2005 to avoid being deported to the United States.
He was wanted for breaking international sanctions by playing a chess match in Yugoslavia in 1992.
Considered by some as the greatest chess player of all time, Fischer's genius was a troubled one that saw his life run steadily downhill since his moment of glory at age 29.
He was known for his theatrics, his extravagant demands and, despite having a Jewish mother, anti-Semitic remarks, using broadcasts at far-flung radio stations to accuse Jews of everything from his legal woes to an alleged conspiracy to kill off elephants.
His anti-US rhetoric became equally inflammatory over the years, and he landed back in the media spotlight on September 11, 2001 when he rang up a Filipino radio station to hail the "wonderful news" of the terrorist attacks on the United States and launch a profanity-laden anti-Jewish tirade.
In 2004, Fischer was taken into custody at Tokyo's Narita airport for traveling on a passport which Washington said had been revoked.
With Japan deliberating for months on whether to send him to the United States, Iceland came to his rescue, granting him citizenship in tribute to his role in making the small island famous in 1972.
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