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Ces Drilon, Ricky Carandang together on primetime



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MANILA,
Philippines - Two of the country’s seasoned journalists—Ces Orena
Drilon and Ricky Carandang—will be anchoring a new show on ANC, the
ABS-CBN News Channel, starting February 15 at 8 p.m.
The show brings together their years of experience as broadcast
journalists, banking on Drilon’s passion for details and Carandang’s
deft analysis of fast-moving events.

The hour-long newscast aims to capture the biggest stories of the day and put them in perspective.

A journalist for more than 2 decades now, Drilon has covered the
toughest assignments for ABS-CBN and has sat down with some of the most
elusive newsmakers in the Philippines.

The top anchor of ANC, Carandang, on the other hand, has been
reporting on politics and business for the cable news channel, and
hosts the Big Picture, Dateline Philippines, and Business Nightly.

The new show kicks off ANC’s new programming this year as the channel offers more premium content to its viewers.

“We would like to provide more for the Filipino, wherever he is,” said Glenda Gloria, ANC’s chief operating officer.

“This new newscast is just one example of the changes you will be
seeing on ANC this year. We’re going beyond breaking news. We’re going
beyond the usual stories. We should be able to connect the dots, to
help viewers make sense of what often seem to be disparate events,” she
added.

The show will air from Mondays to Fridays on ANC at 8 p.m.

Drilon, Carandang lovers?



Meantime, a newspaper reported that Drilon and Carandang are dating.
In her column in The Philippine Daily Inquirer, entertainment writer Dolly Anne
Carvajal revealed that Carandang is Drilon’s “significant other.”
“If show biz has the Kimerald (Kim Chiu and Gerald Anderson) love
team, News and Current Affairs now has ‘Cesky.’ They will soon be
headline material,” Carvajal wrote.

Carvajal, Drilon’s friend, said: “After Ces Drilon’s harrowing
captivity last year, my V.S. (that’s how Ces and I fondly call each
other) more than deserves to have better and brighter days this 2010.
True enough, because her love life and career are both in full swing.”
Drilon, along with her crew, was held hostage for days by the Abu Sayyaf bandits in Mindanao.
Drilon and Carandang are both separated from their respective partners.
Rumors about their relationship surfaced after another entertainment
writer, Ricky Lo of The Philippine Star, wrote a blind item about the
“TV newscaster-lovers” who are now purportedly living under the same
roof.

as of 01/26/2010 12:32 PM

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STIRS: Aga still up for grabs!
by: Edgar O. Cruz | STIR Editor in Chief
27 Jan 2010 | 09:23 AM
Even
is there are indications to show Aga Muhlach is staying in ABS-CBN and
not switch channels to TV5, the story conference of his new Kapamilya
series has not taken place and anything can happen from now until he
makes a concrete move he’s staying!

Maricel Soriano had signed up with TV5.

Starting March, Cheryl Cosim whose ABS-CBN salary had been doubled will team up with Paolo Bediones for TV5’s evening news!

Kenjie Garcia of Joselito Altarejos’ “Ang Lihim ni Antonio” won Best
Actor at the Festival Del Sol held in Gran Canaria, Spain, beating
Baron Geisler of Francis Xavier Pasion’s “Jay!”

“Beetlejuice,” “Edward Scissorhands” and “Planet of the Apes” director
Tim Burton is to head the jury at this year's Cannes film festival fro
May 12 to 23!

Lovers Ces Drilon and Ricky Carandang don’t only get to share a home as
live-in partners but also a new show over ANC starting Feb. 15 at 8pm!

John Estrada wants Wil Revillame, Anjo Yllama, Richard Gomez and Kris
Aquino to be in the entourage of his intimate beach wedding to
Priscilla Meirelles in 2011!

Businessman Carlos de Leon of CHAM Advertising qualified theft and
estafa charges against Quezon City Vice Mayor Herbert “Bistek” Bautista
and his brother Hero for stealing P1.2 million printing machine is
politically motivated!

Regine Tolentino returns to acting in “Ina, Kasusuklaman Kita!”

uie si maricel soriano may contract na sa tv5???haizz..bakit siya lumipat?si aga muhlach?

may away yata sila sa ABS...

BAD NEWS ........................

9 die in Cotabato plane crash

By AARON B. RECUENCO
January 28, 2010, 4:52pm

Residents mill around the site where a Philippine Air Force Nomad plane crashed Thursday in Cotabato City. All eight people on board perished in the crash. (Photo by EDWARD DEQUINA)


Eight Air Force personnel, including a two-star general and a young female pilot, were killed after their nomad plane crashed in a residential area in Cotabato City shortly after take-off before noon Thursday. A civilian on the ground was also killed.
At least three houses were burned at the crash site after the plane burst into flames upon hitting the ground.
A housewife and a responding firefighter were reported injured.
The Air Force fatalities were identified as Maj. Gen. Mario “Butch” Lacson, commanding general of the PAF’s 3rd Wing based in Zamboanga City; a certain Major Tacuboy; a certain Captain Ordoneo; a certain First Lieutenant Valdez, the female pilot; a certain First Lieutenant Lepae; a certain Sergeant Lamera; a certain Sergeant Mejia; and a certain Sergeant Gosum.
A certain Angelina Mondrano also died on the spot after she was pinned against the concrete wall of one of the houses that collapsed.
Senior Supt. Willie Dangane, Cotabato City police chief, said the PAF’s gray Nomad aircraft, a twin-engine turboprop, crashed inside the Virgo Subdivision in Cotabato City’s Rosary Heights 9 district at 11:35 a.m. Thursday.
“The plane hit the house of a certain Gapor Camlian when it crashed,” said Dangane in a phone interview.
“Negative,” replied Chief Supt. Josefino Cataluña, director of the Central Mindanao Regional Police, in a text message when asked if there were any survivors.
Dangane also confirmed that all eight people on board were killed, their bodies charred, as the plane burst into flames upon hitting the ground.
Cataluña said the plane came from Davao City, where the occupants attended a military conference, and landed at the Cotabato airport in Awang town, Maguindanao to drop off Col. Cris Tumanda, an Air Force Tactical Operations Group commander.
The plane then took off to bring the remaining PAF personnel to Zamboanga City.
“The plane crashed after the takeoff,” said Cataluña.
PAF spokesperson Lt. Col. Gerry Zamudio said that at 11:37 a.m., air traffic controllers at the Cotabato airport reportedly received a radio message from the pilot of the Nomad informing them that they were returning to the airport.
"However, that was the last message heard from the pilot," Zamudio said.
Police said the crash triggered a fire that gobbled up at least three houses in the subdivision. A villager identified as Shiela Gomiton and a firefighter who tried to rescue her were wounded, but Gomiton’s two children, Jason and Jen-Jen, were unhurt.
Gomiton, reports said, was preparing lunch when the plane plunged into their neighborhood.
Two more houses, one of them owned by a certain Rogelio Daet, and a private vehicle were also damaged.
“Our police personnel in the area immediately proceeded to the crash site to cordon off and secure the crash site,” said Dangane.
Both Dangane and Cataluña said Air Force authorities would be the ones to conduct an investigation to determine the cause of the crash. (With reports from Malu Cadelina Manar and Anjo Perez)

Mobs disrupt Haiti food handouts

World Monitor
January 29, 2010, 3:48pm

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Angry crowds mobbed three food distribution sites in Haiti’s capital on Thursday, the latest handouts to turn chaotic as aid groups struggle to help the throngs left desperate and hungry by the catastrophic earthquake.
Several people fell and risked being trampled as a crowd rushed the grounds of the ruined Ministry of Culture, where Haitian police handed out bags of food from two trucks. Also on Thursday, United Nations peacekeepers in Cite Soleil, one of Port-au-Prince’s worst slums, fired warning shots when a crowd turned angry as people waited for rice. Another food distribution turned unruly near the Haitian art museum. Despite these incidents, not all handouts have been chaotic.
U.S. first lady leads charge against obesity
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (Reuters) – United States health officials have leveraged the star power of First Lady Michelle Obama to roll out a new campaign against obesity, a preventable condition that drains billions of dollars from the economy. Obama, who plans to take on childhood obesity as a cause, headlined the launch on Thursday of Surgeon General Regina Benjamin’s blueprint for what can be done at home, school and work to reverse the epidemic.
In her first initiative since becoming “America’s doctor,” Benjamin issued a report on the consequences of obesity to start a national dialogue on the subject. “The number of Americans, like me, who are struggling with their weight and health conditions related to their weight remains much too high,” she said. Benjamin’s report lists recommendations for preventing obesity. They range from simply eating more fruit and vegetables to adding “high-quality physical education” in schools and bringing more supermarkets to low-income communities.
North Korea not near collapse
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea is not near collapse and leader Kim Jong-il has recovered
from his illnesses, but the destitute state is hurting from United Nations sanctions imposed
for its nuclear test, South Korea’s President Lee Myung-bak said. Lee also dismissed North Korea’s firing of a barrage of artillery rounds this week at a disputed naval border as an attempt to pressure Washington into agreeing a peace treaty.
Such a tactic would not work, he added. Analysts have said tightened UN sanctions imposed after the North’s nuclear test last year have badly hit its failing economy. The North’s wobbly economy has also been hit by currency control measures it imposed at the end of last year that made it more difficult for its impoverished people to buy goods.
Ice, snow chill U.S. south plains
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – A powerful storm dumped snow, sleet and freezing rain on the southern Plains Thursday, disrupting power to thousands of homes and businesses, canceling flights and shutting down major highways across three states.
The National Weather Service issued winter storm warnings through Friday for much of Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle. Ice accumulations of more than one-half inch and high winds snapped electrical lines across Oklahoma, knocking out electrical power to tens of thousands of customers.
“In some places, as far you can see there are hundreds of utility poles on the ground,” said Andrea Chancellor, spokeswoman for Public Service Company of Oklahoma.

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wala naman ako ma news..ai.!
ah eto news ko.
"mamayang gabi na ang ending ng BOF one more time.!lolx.

Cheryl Cosim bids goodbye to ABS-CBN



abs-cbnNEWS.com | 02/05/2010 11:17 AM
MANILA, Philippines - Cheryl Cosim, the host of multi-awarded TV
show “Salamat Dok,” bade goodbye to her colleagues at ABS-CBN and to
the network's viewers and listeners.

In a letter sent late Thursday to all her Kapamilyas, Cosim, who is
moving to network TV5, said she has enjoyed working with the country's
biggest network, ABS-CBN, for almost 14 years.

"To my dear Kapamilyas, as most of you already know, it is my last week
after almost 14 wonderful years with the company. I have learned,
grown and enjoyed my tenure here and I appreciate having had the
opportunity to work with most of you. I would like to sincerely thank
each one of you for every experience shared, friendship made,
opportunity offered and good times had during this time. Thank you for
the support, guidance, and encouragement you have provided me during my
time here at ABS-CBN," Cosim said.

Cosim said leaving ABS-CBN was the hardest decision she has ever made.
She said she will miss all her friends and the people she has worked
with. Cosim said that she's looking forward to new challenges at TV5.

"Leaving the company is one of the hardest decisions I have made in my
life. It's harder to decide maybe because, as my youngest sister told
me 'either way, it's a blessing... not too many people get to choose
between two good things...," she said.

Entertainment columnist Ricky Lo of The Philippine Star wrote in his
column last Tuesday that Cosim had accepted TV5’s lucrative offer.

Citing reports, Lo said Cosim will anchor TV5’s primetime newscast
alongside Paolo Bediones, formerly with GMA 7, starting March.

Aside from “Salamat Dok,” Cosim hosts a morning show on radio dzMM, and from time to time, anchors Channel 2’s News Advisory.
as of 02/05/2010 11:43 PM

Crackdown on posters starts

Candidates liable for illegally posted campaign materials – Comelec
By LESLIE ANN G. AQUINO
February 10, 2010, 7:41pm

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) announced Wednesday that it will launch a crackdown on illegal campaign materials of candidates and party-list groups participating in the May 10, 2010 automated elections.
But while the Comelec cracks down on illegal campaign materials, it is giving candidates more chances of airing their advertisements to promote their candidacies.
Comelec Spokesperson and EID head James Jimenez said representatives of the poll body will go around major thoroughfares starting tomorrow, February 12, to check if candidates and party-list groups are complying with the campaign rules.
Comelec agents will take pictures and videos of posters and other campaign materials posted illegally.
“We will be going around the major thoroughfares just to check on the compliance with the campaign rules,” he said.
“We will be taking photo and video recording of the posters that are still up by Friday,” added Jimenez.
The poll official said they’ll begin doing the rounds early morning at the Greater Manila Area (GMA) first.
“We will go around in the GMA to see what’s the status of the compliance is and from that we’ll be able to issue more friendly reminders for compliance,” Jimenez said.
On Monday, the Comelec reminded candidates to observe campaign rules, including the regulation and prohibitions on posters and common poster areas.
“The posting of campaign materials in public places outside the designated common poster areas such as streets, bridges, public structures or buildings, trees, electric posts or wires, schools, shrines, main thoroughfares, and the like is prohibited,” Comelec Resolution No. 8758 or the Rules and Regulations Implementing Republic Act 9006 or the “Fair Election Practices Act” read.
“Persons posting the same shall be liable together with the candidates and other persons who caused the posting. It will be presumed that the candidates caused the posting of campaign materials outside the common poster areas if he does not remove the same within three days from notice which shall be issued by the Election Officer…” it further read.
In giving candidates more chances to promote themselves, Comelec Commissioner Gregorio Larrazabal pointed out that in 2007, the broadcast election propaganda for a candidate was not on a per station basis but was taken as a whole.
“The campaign, for example, on television and radio, the limitation now is 120 and 180 minutes respectively. It refers to the limitation per station not the total. So in 2004 it was on per station, in 2007 it was the total, now we are going back to per station,” he said.
With regard to other forms of media such as the use of the Internet for campaigning, Larrazabal admitted the commission is powerless in this area.
“On the technical side if you put a web now the following day you can put another website hosted in another country. How do you stop that?” he said. “It’s difficult to control. There are a lot of candidates with a fan page.”
He even cited the social networking website Facebook as another example where politicians also campaign.
“That’s not regulated now. You see politicians having Facebook accounts, their own websites because it’s not regulated,” Larrazabal said.
But while there are some forms of campaign that are not included in their resolution, he said, the regulation and prohibition on posters, common poster areas remain the same.
As this developed, the Comelec paved the way Tuesday for a foreigner or foreign group, committee or association, representing government or private interests, to observe at close range and virtually unhampered the May, 2010 elections.
The Comelec, led by Chairman Jose A.R. Melo, approved en banc Resolution No. 8763 allowing a foreigner or foreign group, organization, committee or association to file application for accreditation to observe the elections not later than April 15, 2010.
Melo said the applications should be supported by a duly accomplished information sheet, two recently taken “2 x 2” colored photographs of the applicant, and endorsement by the ambassador or consul of the home country of the applicants.
Upon approval of the application, the Comelec will issue individual identification cards to the accredited foreign observers who will then have the privilege to request any official of the government, representatives of registered political parties, organization or coalitions, candidates or their representatives, media representatives, private firms or organizations, any political party or candidate for interview or briefing on the coming electoral exercise.
They have also the right to observe all proceedings in the precinct until the counting and transmission of votes are over. They could also keep track of the transport of Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines after the voting, counting, and transmission.
The Comelec stressed that it shall be unlawful for any foreigner, whether juridical or natural person to aid any candidate or political party, director or indirectly, take part or influence the election in any manner, contribute or make any expenditure in connection with any election campaign or partisan political activity, enter any polling place, and mingle and talk with voters inside any polling place, or otherwise disrupt the proceedings of the pollig place.
Any violation of the above provisions shall be punishable with one to six years imprisonment and deportation after the prison term has been served, it was pointed out.
Meanwhile, Eric Alvia, secretary general of the National Citzens’ Movement for Free Elections (Namfrel) said that they can still monitor the conduct of the May, 2010 national elections even without a Comelec accreditation.
Alvia said if the Comelec will not heed their call to be accredited as a citizens’ arm during the elections, they can still help by monitoring the elections to see if it is credibly run from start to finish. (With reports from E.T. Suarez and Francis T. Wakefield)

Wednesday’s lotto prize pot to breach P200-million

By BEN R. ROSARIO
February 10, 2010, 7:27pm

For only the fourth time in the country’s lottery history, the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) is expected to put at stake at least P200 million in first prize jackpot for its Super Lotto 49 draw.
This, after not one among the millions of Filipinos who queued lotto outlets for last Tuesday night’s Super Lotto 49 draw came up with the right six-number combination of 4-7-33-37-48-13. The total payout for the first prize reached P174,707,251.20.
But as PCSO awaits a lucky jackpot winner, the state-run lottery agency has also something to celebrate about as its charity fund for Super Lotto 49 reached P208,798,540.47 in just over a month.
Don de Leon, chief of staff of PCSO Chairman Sergio Valencia, said tonight’s top prize could reach over P200 million.
“Even if they do not win, bettors contribute huge to charity and are able to help our less fortunate Filipino brothers who are in dire need of medical and livelihood assistance,” De Leon said. “Sa lotto walang natatalo.”
De Leon, a Quezon City-based civic leader, said millions of the country’s poor have already become recipients of medical help from the PCSO.
The PCSO executive said there is a good chance that tonight’s jackpot prize for the Lotto 49 draw will breach the P200 million level.
“We are hoping for bigger sales to be able to reach the P200 million jackpot,” said De Leon as he noted a difference of at least P21.7 million between the Sunday and Tuesday top money prize.
Over P200 million was offered as cash prize in the following draws: October 17, 2002 with six winners; March 30, 2008 with only one winner and February 22, 2009, with two winners.
Meanwhile, Conrado Zabella, assistant general manager for lottery operations, said more than P15 million had been distributed in consolation prizes for the Tuesday Super Lotto draw.
Zabella said a total 70 bettors received P56,000 for betting on five of the six winning number combinations.
A total of P4,322,000 was distributed to 4,322 bettors for getting four numbers.
Each winner won P1,000. Another 86,491 aficionados won P8,649,100 for guessing three numbers correctly, Zabella added.

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hmp wala ako news..news ko lang i napasa ko lahat ng exams ko..yepeyl.!

Gov’t allays fear of power crisis

GMA to declare state of emergency if electricity shortage escalates
By GENALYN KABILING and MIKE U. CRISMUNDO
February 12, 2010, 5:24pm

Amid the looming power outages in Luzon and electricity shortage in Mindanao, workers go on construction frenzy, installing electric cables to upgrade the power supply of the new Metro Rail Transit (MRT-7) project. (Photo by MICHAEL VARCAS)


A Malacañang official assured Friday that the Department of Energy (DoE) remains in control of the power situation in the country, allaying fears of widespread electricity shortage in the run-up to the May 10, 2010 automated elections.
Deputy Presidential Spokesman Gary Olivar gave this assurance as Mindanao power consumers are experiencing a six-hour rotating brownout since last week and Luzon will start experiencing up to three hours of power interruption starting next week.
But Olivar said that should there be widespread power shortage, President Arroyo has the option to declare a state of emergency.
So far, Olivar told Palace reporters that the country is not enduring any extensive power deficiency and expressed hope the supply problem would be resolved as soon as possible.
“If the problem ever gets to be that serious, that is one of the alternatives open to her. Hopefully, it will not reach to that level. I don’t think we are there yet and we hope we will not reach that situation,” he said about the President’s option to declare a state of emergency to address a power crisis.
Olivar assured that the Arroyo government is ready to take the necessary measures “as the situation develops, if it gets worse or if gets better.”
“The important thing is we are monitoring the situation and giving the corresponding solution,” he added.
He said Energy Secretary Angelo Reyes has secured the commitment Luzon-based power distributors of adequate power supply at least after the May national and local elections.
Another meeting has been arranged next week with power firms in Visayas and Mindanao to craft action plans that will address rotating brownouts.
“Rotating brownouts are time honored way of managing excess demand from time to time. I think we can assure the DoE is doing all it can to minimize, if not totally avoid, the inconvenience of this form of demand management,” he said.
Olivar admitted that long and frequent power shortages may eventually dampen economic growth in case of weakened business activities.
At the moment, he said there was no imminent major threat to the country’s growth prospects despite the supply problems in some parts of the country. He said the predictability of the brownouts was important so the government and the private sector could prepare contingency measures.