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New Filipino paypal users are complaining that after verifying their account via the PayPal’s Expanded Use Program, Paypal still requires you to fax a utility bill before you can use your paypal account to pay for online transactions.

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DVD pirates are now riding on the popularity of the Subic Rape Case.

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The Department of Trade and Industry recently issued an order prohibiting stores from imposing surcharge on credit card, debit card, and automated teller machine card transactions.

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We commend the group of Gary Granada and their crusade for the reduction of styrofoam or polystyrene in fast-food chains here in the Philippines. It goes without saying that our environment needs all the help it can get. That and the ill effects of styrofoam or polystyrene on our health.

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The UN system in the Philippines is launching the Tumayo Tayo (Stand Up) campaign, which ties up with the STAND UP project of the UN Millennium Campaign. STAND UP is an innovative and exciting global challenge to set an official Guinness World Record – the greatest number of people ever to Stand Up Against Poverty – on 15 and 16 October 2006. Through the symbolic action of standing up, the campaign aims to publicly demonstrate to policy makers the growing support for the achievement of the MDGs and for the strengthening of development policies both in the Philippines and throughout the world. In the Philippines, the goal is to have at least 1 million Filipinos stand up against poverty and for the MDGs. (Counting will take place from 15-16 October 2006.)

For more information on how to participate on this event, go to www.millenniumcampaign.ph

Thai Army Chief Gen. Sonthi Boonyaratglin who declared a coup that ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, apparently graduated from the Philippine Military Academy and was a part of Class ‘76. This is according to news reports on TV. But his details in wikipedia says otherwise. It says that he graduated from Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy in 1969. Both info could be correct. Maybe after he graduated from Chulachomklao, he then went to study at PMA and graduated in 1976.

We always hear “La Mesa” on TV, La Mesa Ecopark, save the La Mesa watershed, etc. No it has nothing to do with tables. But what exactly is the La Mesa, the issues surrounding it, some piece of its history, and why must we care to preserve it?

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Four male dancers have been sacked at Hong Kong Disneyland after naked antics in their dressing room were caught on video and circulated among staff, the theme park confirmed Monday.

The four Filipinos who danced in Disneyland’s daily parades were accused of indulging in “acts of a sexually indecent nature” in front of up to 20 other employees on August 4.

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The camp of deposed President Joseph Estrada has decided to upload the controversial “newsreel” entitled “Ang Mabuhay para sa Masa” on Estrada’s site erap.ph. This after the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) gave it an X-rating. Since then the site has used up all its allocated bandwidth and had to rely on a mirror site.

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is inclined to dismiss the petition lodged by proponents of the people’s initiative for lack of jurisdiction. Ranking Comelec officials admitted this possibility yesterday in pointing out the petition filed by the Sigaw ng Bayan and Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines (ULAP) last Friday might violate the 1997 Supreme Court ruling over the issue.

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The Philippine Daily Inquirer apologized Tuesday to singer-songwriter Jim Paredes for an inaccurate headline about Paredes’ decision to immigrate to Australia.

PDI publisher Isagani Yambot said Paredes “had valid reason to be angry and upset over the headline.” He added that the headline was “inaccurate and unfair.”

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The Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD) tested different samples of Cadbury Chocolates and all were negative of salmonella. This after a reference to the BBC article regarding the Cadbury salmonella scare in the UK was passed around through text messages (SMS). Cadbury Philippines, meanwhile denied that the alleged contaminated chocolates are imported here in the Philippines. They said that they are not importing Cadbury Chocolates from the UK.

Just in case your social science teacher asks you who are the cabinet secretaries or cabinet members of the Philippines.

Eduardo R. Ermita – Executive Secretary
Alberto G. Romulo – Department of Foreign Affairs
Domingo F. Panganiban Arthur Yap – Department of Agriculture (update 10/18)
Rolando G. Andaya – Department of Budget and Management
Jesli A. Lapus – Department of Education

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Here are the possibe senatorial line up for both the administration and the opposition

Administration Slate

Angelo Reyes
Mike Defensor
Ace Durano
Prospero Pichay
Dong Puno
Ralph Recto
Manny Villar

Updated list of administration senatorial candidates –> TEAM Unity

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Former vice-mayor Roberto Brillante of Makati on Thursday filed administrative charges with the Department of the Interior and Local Government against the Makati City government for allegedly maintaining 600 ghost employees at the city hall.

Named respondents in the case are Mayor Jejomar Binay, Vice-Mayor Ernesto Mercado and 16 city councilors.

Members of the Professional Regulatory Commission’s (PRC) Board of Nursing have offered to resign following the controversial leak in the nursing board examinations last June. Eufemia Octaviano, chairwoman of the PRC-BON, gave the recommendation before the lawmakers led by Sen. Rodolfo Biazon during the Senate inquiry yesterday. Octaviano volunteered to lead all the members of the PRC-BON before the Senate amid alleged pressures from Malacañang not to attend the hearing.

Thank you, Speaker de Venecia. Congratulations, Senate President Manny Villar; Vice-President Noli de Castro; President Ramos; Chief Justice Panganiban; Members of the diplomatic corps; Senators; Congressmen and Congresswomen; Other officials, ladies and gentlemen.

Sa araw na ito, nakatuon ang isip natin sa ating mga kababayan sa Lebanon. Nasa kuko sila ngayon ng malagim na paglala ng digmaan. Kahapon lamang, sinalubong natin ang unang dalawang-daang Pilipinong lumikas doon. Limang-daan pa ang mauuwi natin sa susunod na apat na araw.

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House Bill (HB) 345, granting a P125 across-the-board daily wage hike of workers, was passed by the House of Representatives on its second reading. The pay adjustment will supposedly be implemented in the following manner: P45 on October 1, 2006; P40 on October 1, 2007; and another P40 on October 1, 2008.

A legislated wage hike, however, might do more harm than good, to the employers, to the country’s economy, and to the workers themselves, who are supposed to be the ones to benefit from this measure.

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