Puerto Princesa Underground River win in New 7 Wonders leads to minitourism boom
Region: Philippines
Puerto Princesa City, Philippines: A week after the popular online and SMS text message vote contest released the preliminary list of seven as one of the worlds top choices for nature's New Seven Wonders, Philippine Airlines has announced it will increase the size of planes flying there from Airbus A320 to A300-330 series aircraft to meet reservation demands of the destination in Palawan. Phil... more
Views: 2186DOLE-OWWA-8 to bare regional MOFYA winners
Region: Philippines
TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, (PIA) – The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration in Eastern Visayas is set to bare the 2011 winners for the Model OFW Family of the Year Awards (MOFYA) in the regional awarding ceremonies which will be held on October 5 at the Patio Victoria, Baluarte, San Jose, in Tacloban City. Of the eight (8) OFW families nominated, two will be declared as winners, one for the MOFYA land-... more
Views: 1216Philippines: Cops raid 'sex toy call center' in Davao City
Region: PhilippinesThe Philippine Police, say they raided a alleged distribution center for pornography - But - hundreds of workers say cops raided a Sex Toy or novelty item selling call center in the Southern Philippines. In what some describe as 'a real life crisis that could be an episode on the TV show outsourced.' Cops now have hundreds of computers they seized, as well as lawyers for the outsourced service provider warns, fi... more
Views: 4452Philiippines: Iba, Zambales landslide 75 homes damaged
Region: PhilippinesFour days of heavy rain, brought on by two tropical storms and seasonal monsoon conditions have softened the earth at a subdivision overlooking the town of Iba, Zambales. Local authrites say all residents from the up to 75 homes damaged in the slide were evacuated safetly. Video from news report on television show rivers overflowing onto a highway bridge and locals saying the area soil is loose and crubling into ca... more
Views: 1786Military to companies: "Stop paying rebel 'extrotion taxation' help end insurgency in Philippines"
Region: PhilippinesQuezon City – The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is appealing to the Philipine League of the Corporate Foundations (LCF) general membership assembly in a out-reach to private sector stakeholders whose 'rebel progressive taxation payments' which th Philippine military is calling 'extortion taxation' are inadvertently suporting government's.foes in its battle with insurgents. Communist rebels often 'tax' co... more
Views: 1497Philippines: DepED says make a kid and toys happy - donate old toys and sports gear to schools
Region: Philippines
Manila - The Department of Education or DepED, in the Philippines, is asking those with more - to donate to those with less. The education department's goal is for more public-private-partnerships for play to help those with out any sports equipment and toys for younger children that they have outgrown. Think of the movie toy story, which I like my eldest kind of cried a bit on the... more
Views: 2112South China Sea: ‘Pescadore Power’ Vietnam using People Power at sea versus 'bulling by PRC'
Region: Philippines
Ho Chi Mhin City - Even as the Philippines attempts to deal with the threat of fish kills reducing aquaculture from "grown milk fish (Bangus) farms' in recent weeks. The Bureau of Fisheries has to deal with the increased presence of Chinese Patrol craft harassment of Philippine fishing vessels away from traditional fishing grounds within the country's EEZ - off the coast of Palawan Province. . In Vietnam, they a... more
Views: 2432Philippines protests China warships firing on fishermen off Palawan Island
Region: Philippines
Manila- In a issued statement the Office of the Secrtary of Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs accused the People's Reublic China for violating Philippine soveriengty and threatening peaceful relations between the nations in the South China Sea. "The DFA noted that these actions of Chinese vessels hamper the normal and legitimate fishing activities of the Filipino fishermen in the area and undermines the... more
Views: 2569Philippine hackers hit Dept of Interior website
Region: Philippines
First it is GMA News and it's twitter and facebook sites now government a agency is the the Department of Interior and Local Governments or DILG - a message was left on the main web home page of the site. The group which calls itself in this particalur case. "Pinoy exploit team' claims, they only seek out sites with SQLI errors that are exploitable. message of pinoy exploit team on DILG website ... more
Views: 1492Philippines: GMA TV network websites and social sites hacked
Region: Philippines
Early Sunday morning in Manila a flood of strange – some sexual in tone - messages flooded one of the leading news networks websites in social networking platforms. More mesages flooded thier system after the 'White hacker' who called themselves 'D4RKB1T' posted the information to log-onto the twitter site of the networkonline. This was followed by a stream of tweets that were obscene. GMA News SVP Mari... more
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