Soldiers on both sides of the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating North and South Korea exchanged automatic gunfire — trying but failing to start World War III.
No casualties were reported, but the gunfight has raised alert levels in the tense region, with Kim Jong-il ready to pulverize half of the inhabited earth — including the US-backed [...]

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Latest news from Manila says Mayor Alfredo Lim burned 40,000 pesos worth of pornographic and pirated video CD and DVD disks confiscated from a piracy ring in Quiapo Manila.
The crackdown started when Manila Senior Police Officer 3 Amador Jareno, acting as an undercover agent, bought five pirated copies of “Anal Princess Diaries,” after which the [...]

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Marikina Congressman Marcelino Teodoro was “shocked” when he saw a cat roaming around the corridors of the House of Representatives.

“It was really a culture shock for me, not expecting to see a cat which can normally be found in homes,” Rep. Teodoro was quoted by Peoples Journal.

It turned out that the cat was only [...]

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PINOYSPY NEWS SERVICE (PNS) – One of the more important highlights in President Macapagal Arroyo’s State of the Nation Address was that she reiterated that Paracetamol only costs P1 (one peso) in the Botika ng Bayan.
Sadly, this fact was not even given importance by mass media, when this is a very important piece of information [...]

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Full text of the State of the Nation Address (SONA)  of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, delivered to Congress on July 23, 2007

Thank you. Thank you very much Speaker De Venecia, Senate President Villar, other newly elected leaders of both Houses, congratulations to you, Senators and Congressmen and Congresswomen. Vice President De Castro, former President Ramos, [...]

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Former Philippine police officer Michael Ray Aquino begged for mercy from a US judge on his day of judgement on espionage charges, and was sentenced to six years in prison.

Michael Ray Aquino during his heydays, with bossing Ping Lacson

Aquino, who fled the Philippines after the downfall of jailed ex-President Joseph Estrada, had been detained [...]

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Serving a warning against corrupt officials in high positions, the Chinese government yesterday executed its former drug and food safety chief, 62-year-old Zheng Xiaoyu.
Xiaoyu was convicted of taking bribes worth some 6.5 million yuan ($850,000) from eight companies and dereliction of duty, according to Xinhua news agency said.
Xinhua said it was the first time that [...]

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Two senators with martial law experience have filed bills seeking the regulation on the use of cellular phone SIM cards in the Philippines  by having users register their names in a central database.
Senate Bill 289 — “An Act requiring the Registration of Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) Cards in Mobile Phones,” – will require buyers of [...]

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PinoySpy News Service (Manila, Philippines) - Fifty junior military officers involved in the failed 2003 Oakwood mutiny will be out of prison in 6  months, this after entering a plea bargain agreement and pleading guilty to five provisions of the Articles of War.

The Magdalo flag draws from the symbolism of the Katipunan

A general court martial [...]

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A shocking news from Jerusalem: Israeli President ‘a rapist and a pervert’

Disgraced Israeli President Moshe Katsav with his wife in a file photo.

A FORMER secretary to outgoing Israeli President Moshe Katsav labelled him yesterday “a pervert and serial sex offender” who raped her in the presidential office several times.
The woman, identified only as A., the [...]

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