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Total number of people infected by Zika virus reaches 25 in Florida, USA. The number of persons diagnosed positive of Zika virus in Miami, Florida continues to rise while efforts are underway in order to develop a vaccine against the virus. Florida Health Department said Friday three additional people have been reported to have contracted … Read more
Philippine army will give the late President Marcos military honors. The Philippine army confirmed they will give military honors to the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos on September at the Libingan ng mga Bayani. This is after President Rodrigo Duterte confirmed the burial of Marcos’ at the heroes’ cemetery. On Friday (August 12), Col. Benjamin Hao, spokesperson … Read more
Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno appreciates the president’s sorry. Supreme Court Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno replied on Friday (August 12) to President Rodrigo Duterte’s apology after the two officials’ word war. This is the response of the chief of the judiciary department after Duterte on Thursday night apologized to Sereno for his “harsh words” … Read more
Michael Phelps claimed his 22nd Olympic gold medal and his fourth at the Olympics. Michael Phelps keep on collecting gold medals in Olympic Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. On Thursday (Brazil Time), Phelps seized another slice of Olympic history with a dominant victory in the 200m individual medley at the Rio Games, his … Read more
Hidilyn Diaz gives Olympic silver medal to her mother. After her silver medal finish in the women’s weightlifting in the Rio Olympics, Hidilyn Diaz received a grand welcome at the NAIA Terminal upon the arrival of her flight from Dubai, Thursday night. With her parents, fellow members of the Philippine Air Force and countrymen eagerly … Read more
For the second time, another pool became green. Divers and independent water experts have been very skeptical when the water polo pool at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil has started to turn green, only 24 hours after the diving pool did the same. On Thursday (Brazil Time), organisers were embarrassed when algae … Read more
‘Finish off Abu Sayyaf before they are contaminated by Islamic State’ President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the Philippine Army to destroy the Abu Sayyaf militant group mainly operating in southern Philippines. This is the order of the president on Wednesday in visiting troops in Zamboanga del Sur saying if not, the Philippines risked being “contaminated” by … Read more
ABAP Chief wants new leadership amid the loss of Pinoy boxers in Olympics 2016. Ricky Vargas announced his resignation as the president of the Alliance of Boxing Associations in the Philippines (ABAP) following the failure of Filipino boxers in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Vargas made the announcement after the 22-year-old Rogen … Read more
Miss Universe 2016 Pia Wurtzbach congratulates Hidilyn Diaz, Pinay silver medalist in Olympics 2016. Reigning Miss Universe Pia Wurtzbach took to social media to congratulate her fellow Mindanawon, Hidilyn Diaz, for becoming the first Filipina to win a medal in Olympic Summer Games. Hidilyn as we know is the first Filipino female athlete to win … Read more
House of the Representatives and the Senate look forward to having con-ass not as one body. Top officials in the Congress seem to be amenable toward revising the Philippine Constitution to give way to federalism by constituent assembly and voting will be done in the two houses separately. In a constituent assembly, changes to the Constitution … Read more