by Jenny on June 18, 2009 Last June 14 was a grand day for Philippine horseracing. Four major stakes races were held that attracted hundreds of fans to the Philippine Racing Club’s New Santa Ana Park in Naic, Cavite. In the 14th Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office First Gentleman Silver Cup, Don Enrico copped top honors [...]
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Tags: Atty. Gabriel Espina, Gerry Espina, PCSO Committee, Philippine Racing Club’s
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August 13th, 2009
BiliranIsland.com Staff BiliranIsland.com Now you see him, now you don`t. Panubong sa adlaw nga natawhan.
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Tags: biliran governor, ELECTION 2010, espina, espina dynasty, Gerry Boy Espina Jr, governor
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August 7th, 2009
Hackers slowed Twitter to a standstill early on Aug. 6, frustrating millions of users. Twitter (Twitter) is currently experiencing downtime, Twitter is the target of a denial of service attack. Attacks such as this are malicious efforts orchestrated to disrupt and make unavailable services such as online banks, credit card payment gateways, and in this [...]
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August 7th, 2009
By Dr. Rolando O. Borrinaga In the afternoon of Pueblo Day, September 26 [2007], I delivered a lecture on the history of Naval at the Session Hall of the Sangguniang Bayan. However, space constrains would not allow the publication of the entire lecture text here. So I instead write the following reflections and notes. The [...]
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Tags: and Karaykaray, Bagasumbul, bolo punch, boxing champion, Ceferino Garcia, Dr. Rolando O. Borrinaga, Fr. Juan Inocentes Manco Garcia, Naval, Sumbul
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August 6th, 2009
By Sharon Evite and Melanie Bingco, ABS-CBN Tacloban TACLOBAN CITY – This city is known as a Romualdez-Marcos country. This however did not stop supporters of the late former president Corazon “Cory” Aquino to struggle against the dictatorship of then strongman Ferdinand Marcos. Engineer Billy Roseño said he was among those who led rallies in [...]
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Tags: Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr., Calbayog Mayor Mel Sarmiento, Corazon “Cory” Aquino, Mayor Alfred Romualdez, Regional Development Council, Rep. Glen Chong, Rep. Reynaldo Uy, Rep. Sharee Ann Tan-Delos Santos, Romualdez-Marcos, was assassinated
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August 4th, 2009
By HRVOJE HRANJSKI, Associated Press Writer Hrvoje Hranjski, Associated Press Writer – 51 mins ago Yahoo! News MANILA, Philippines – 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 [...]
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August 1st, 2009
BiliranIsland.com Staff BiliranIsland.com First Posted 07:06 PM 07/31/2009 In order to put an end to all the political speculations and rumors of the possible persons of his choice who will run as governor and vice-governor in the May 2010 elections, Rep Glenn A. Chong in an interview revealed with all honesty and sincerity the people [...]
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July 31st, 2009