MANILA, Philippines – The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announced last night that 37,527 of 94,462 examinees passed the Nursing Licensure Examination given by the Board of Nursing last November.
Marco Sto. Tomas, PRC Board of Nursing (BON) member, said a graduate from Iligan Medical Center College, Claire Bontol, topped over 94,000 examinees with a rating of 87.80 percent, while Bryan Asis of Lyceum Batangas placed second, with 87.60 percent. (more…)
Press Secretary Cerge Remonde was declared dead by doctors of the Makati Medical Center at 11:51 a.m. Tuesday, a Malacañang official said.
“Isang malungkot na balita. Kaninang 11:51 ng umaga ang ating kalihim Sec. Remonde ay binawian ng buhay (I have sad news. Remonde died),”Press Undersecretary for Operations Romeo Junia said on dzBB radio. (more…)
UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. said Wednesday that 14 U.N. personnel were killed when an earthquake decimated Haiti’s capital and 150 workers were still unaccounted for, including the mission chief.
U.N. officials said 56 others were injured. Seven who were seriously hurt were evacuated from the country, they said. (more…)
Three days after the mass murders that have shocked the world, primary suspect Andal Ampatuan Jr., the mayor of Datu Unsay town, surrendered to authorities Thursday morning. Ampatuan is awaiting formal murder charges in General Santos City.
The police also said they “rounded up” several local militia members who may have taken part in the bloodbath.
“At this point, Datu Unsay town mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr. is a suspect,” Philippine National Police chief Director General Jesus Verzosa said in an interview on dzBB radio. His statement came three days after the horrific mass killing on Monday of civilians, including journalists and lawyers. (more…)
MAGUINDANAO, Philippines—(UPDATE) Bullet-ridden bodies were pulled out from shallow graves on Tuesday as troops hunted down the gunmen who massacred, according to the Philippine National Police, at least 46 people in one of the Philippines’ most brutal explosions of political violence. (more…)
Filipino kids instead of mourning of the tragedy that typhoon ondoy brought them this week, instead they just make themselves fun in the midst of the flood.
On Sept. 26, the Philippine capital Manila and its neighboring provinces suffered one of nature’s worst beating. Typhoon Ondoy, international code name Ketsana, poured more than a month’s worth of rain in six hours, submerging most parts of the bustling metropolis, drowning at least a hundred people as of press time. My prayers to the victims, and may we emerge victorious and live by the lessons of this tragedy.
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More video of typhoon “ondoy” here in Metro Manila. Most of the areas affected is Marikina, Antipolo, Pasig and some of the low lands in Metro Manila. None stop rainfall for about 5 hours or less over flowed the rivers that affected the nearby residences of the said places.
The incessant downpour brought by tropical storm ‘Ondoy’ has turned several parts of Metro Manila into a virtual water world.
The rainfall brought by typhoon “Ondoy” to Metro Manila and nearby areas in a span of six hours on Saturday was the most in recorded history, surpassing the previous record for the metropolis in 1967, a weather bureau official said. (more…)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Former President Corazon Aquino, who swept away a dictator with a “people power” revolt and then sustained democracy by fighting off seven coup attempts in six years, died on Saturday, her son said. She was 76. (more…)
SEASIDE HEIGHTS (AP) – Authorities say a 25-year-old former two-time “American Idol” contestant has been struck and killed by a car in a New Jersey shore town.
The Asbury Park Press reports that Alexis Cohen, of Allentown, Pa., was killed early Saturday in Seaside Heights.
Deputy Chief Michael Mohel of the Ocean County Prosecutors Office says an autopsy indicated she suffered chest, head and abdominal injuries. Mohel says investigators are seeking more information about the collision.
Cohen auditioned in Philadelphia for the popular Fox singing competition in August 2007, and the episode was aired in January 2008. She tried out again during the show’s eighth season.
A video of her angry rant after being rejected by judges went viral on the Internet. (more…)
MANILA, Philippines – With a rosary entwined around her right hand, former President Corazon Aquino continues to fight for her life at the Makati Medical Center, where she has been confined for the past month.
Her only son Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III said yesterday that his deeply spiritual mother called for all her five children the other night, and with youngest daughter Kris serving as her interpreter, relayed to them her final hopes and wishes.
“Take care of each other,” Mrs. Aquino told her five children Ballsy Cruz, Pinky Abellada, Viel Dee, Kris Yap, and himself, according to Senator Aquino. “Each time Kris was able to articulate what she wanted to say, my mother would nod”.
Though his mother is “stable,” doctors have told the family, “nobody can really say when…,” he said.
The former president was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer in March 2008.
Concerns about Mrs. Aquino’s health peaked yesterday as a stream of relatives, including her oldest brother Pedro Cojuangco and youngest brother Jose “Peping” Cojuangco and sister-in-law Maur Aquino Lichauco, as well as other close friends, rushed to her bedside at the Makati Medical Center.
Aquino III said his mother is being fed intravenously, which “was not compatible” with the morphine she has been receiving for her pain. He said adjustments have had to be made in her treatment.
He said his mother is comfortable and responds to the affection of her grandchildren.
“Kris’ son Joshua asked her, ‘Lola, are you okay?’ and she responded by taking his hand,” Aquino III said.
A close family friend, who asked not to be named, said a tear rolled down the former president’s cheek when she whispered to her that she was loved by many.
Three persons, including a 9-month-old baby, were reported dead and two more missing as Tropical Storm Isang moved away from the country, the government reported Saturday.
The National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) said in its 8 a.m. report that those reported killed at the height of the storm were 13-year-old Joemar Ligara of Caloocan City and Lomer Fernando, 32, of Batac, Ilocos Norte.
The NDCC said that based on reports, Ligara drowned in Tullahan River while Fernando died of electrocution. (more…)
COTABATO CITY, Philippines – Five people were killed and at least 30 injured after a bomb packed with nails and jagged iron blew up across the cathedral where Archbishop Orlando Quevedo was celebrating Mass in Cotabato City yesterday morning.
Cotabato City police director Senior Superintendent Willie Dangane identified four of the dead as Army Sgt. Recillo Collado, Ruby Ramirez, Paolo Kahar and a teenager, Prince Allen Cang-Diaz.
But Lt. Col. Jonathan Ponce, Army 6th Infantry Division spokesman, said one of the dead was not a soldier but a member of the Citizens’ Armed Force Geographical Unit identified as Elmer Noble.
The fifth fatality, a man who was said to be mentally unstable, remained unidentified as of last night. Dangane said the man, who was blown to pieces by the blast, could have caused the bomb to explode prematurely after tinkering with it.
In the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI deplored the attack.
“While I pray to God for the victims of this ignoble gesture, I raise my voice to condemn yet again the recourse to violence, which is never a worthwhile way to solve existing problems,” the Pope told pilgrims during the Angelus prayer in St. Peter’s Square. (more…)
In 1993, Chandler told a psychiatrist and police that he and Jackson had engaged in sexual acts that included oral sex, the boy gave detailed description of Jackson’s genitals. The case was settled out of court for a reported $22 million, but the strain led Jackson to begin taking painkillers. Eventually he became addicted.
Now maybe for the remorse of his death Chandler decides to tell us the truth. ” I never meant to lie and destroy Michael Jackson but my father made me to tell only lies. Now i can’t tell Michael how much i’m sorry and if he will forgive me ”.Evan Chandler was tape-recorded saying amongst other things, “If I go through with this, I win big-time. There’s no way I lose. I will get everything I want and they will be destroyed forever… (more…)
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MANILA, Philippines – The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announced last night that 37,527 of 94,462 examinees passed the Nursing Licensure Examination given by the Board of Nursing last November.
Press Secretary Cerge Remonde was declared dead by doctors of the Makati Medical Center at 11:51 a.m. Tuesday, a Malacañang official said.
Three days after the mass murders that have shocked the world, primary suspect Andal Ampatuan Jr., the mayor of Datu Unsay town, surrendered to authorities Thursday morning. Ampatuan is awaiting formal murder charges in General Santos City.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Former President Corazon Aquino, who swept away a dictator with a “people power” revolt and then sustained democracy by fighting off seven coup attempts in six years, died on Saturday, her son said. She was 76. 
SEASIDE HEIGHTS (AP) – Authorities say a 25-year-old former two-time “American Idol” contestant has been struck and killed by a car in a New Jersey shore town.
MANILA, Philippines – With a rosary entwined around her right hand, former President Corazon Aquino continues to fight for her life at the Makati Medical Center, where she has been confined for the past month.
