Portal

Ex-porn star releases purported Tiger Woods texts

LOS ANGELES â€” A former porn actress has released sexually graphic text messages that she says prove her affair with Tiger Woods, and she says she has more potentially embarrassing information about the golfer that she may reveal later.

Joslyn James, whose real name is Veronica Siwik-Daniels, posted more than 100 message...

[ Full reading ]

Two Filipinos found guilty of human trafficking in HK

Two Filipinos were found guilty by Hong Kongâ€™s Wan Chai District Court of human trafficking in charges filed by their Filipino victims.

In a release posted on the Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) website on Wednesday, the two Filipinos, a club owner and staff, are facing a maximum penalty of not more than thre...

[ Full reading ]

Ampatuans will miss Pacquiao-Clottey match

When Filipino boxing hero Manny Pacquiao faces Joshua Clottey of Ghana in the ring on Sunday (Saturday in the U.S.) in Texas to defend his welterweight crown, the Ampatuan clan won’t be in the audience at the Dallas Cowboys stadium to cheer him like in his past fights.
Twelve prominent members of the powerful family, which counts among...

[ Full reading ]

Secessionist rebels scored the Zamboanga City government for allegedly blocking a component of an International Monitoring Team (IMT) from setting up operations there in line with its task of supervising a ceasefire.
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) said the IMT's Team Site 3 in Zamboanga City has not yet been dispatched because Zamboanga City Mayor Celso Lobregat did not welcome it....

[ Full reading ]

Huh sino kaya mananalo at mandadaya sa darating na elections sa pinas...

MANILA, Philippines -- The Department of Education (DepEd) and several laptop manufacturers have signed agreements to provide cheap computer notebooks to public school teachers.
The Laptop for Teachers (LT4T) program, which is under the DepEd's Adopt-A-School project, would initially allow public school teachers to purchase notebooks from Neo and Acer at half the price.
Similar deals...

[ Full reading ]

RP envoy concerned over new UK immigration system

A new points-based immigration system to be implemented by the United Kingdom starting January 1 next year will adversely affect the status and deployment of Filipinos in that country, Philippine Ambassador to the UK Edgardo Espiritu warned Monday.

He said the proposed changes would classify UK visa applicants into five...

[ Full reading ]

Jennifer Hudson's mother and brother slain

[color:de9a=#333333! important]The American Idol veteran's relatives are gunned down in the family's Chicago home. The singer's 7-year-old nephew is reported missing.
[color:de9a=#999999! important]By Robert Mitchum,, Angela Rozas and Jeremy Gorner
October 25, 2008

Reporting from Chicago -- Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson considered her mother's...

[ Full reading ]

Moro land deal illegal

October 15, 2008 02:38:00
Norman Bordadora Tetch Torres
Philippine Daily Inquirer INQUIRER.net

MANILA, Philippines—The memorandum of agreement on ancestral domain (MOA-AD) between the government and a Moro separatist rebel group is illegal and unconstitutional, and the process that led to its crafting was “whimsical, capr...

[ Full reading ]

Benefits of Negative Ions
"Negative ions increase the flow of oxygen to the brain; resulting in higher alertness, decreased drowsiness, and more mental energy," says Pierce J. Howard, PhD, author of The Owners Manual for the Brain: Everyday Applications from Mind Brain Research and director of research at the Center for Applied Cognitive Sciences in Charlotte, N.C.
"T...

[ Full reading ]