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[Highlights] Rodrigo Duterte First Public Appearance as President-Elect

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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A week after the 2016 Presidential Election, Rodrigo Duterte make
his first public appearance as the President Elect of the Philippines in Davao
City. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Last Sunday night, President Rody met his
team and some candidates for top positions on his administration. Former
defense secretary Gilbert Teodoro Jr. was one of the top choice to be the
defense chief, he was known because of his effort when typhoon Ondoy hit the national
capital region in September 2009.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Art Tugade, former classmate of Pres-elect Duterte in San Beda
will be appointed as his Secretary of the Department of Trade and Industry.
Tugade was also appointed president of Clark Development Corp. by President Aquino
III in 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Alan Peter Cayetano offered to choose between Department of
Justice and Department of Foreign Affairs. While the 1 year appointment ban is
still active, Panelo Yasay will be the acting DFA secretary. Cayetano is the
running mate of Pres-Elect Duterte last May 9 Elections and also a former
Senator.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Salvador Panelo, Legal counsel of Rody Duterte will be his </span>Presidential<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span>Spokesperson</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">and </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Peter Laurel, President of Lyceum of the Philippine University –
Batangas offered Department of Education.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hera are also some of the issues tackled and mention by Pres-elect
Rody Duterte:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li>No more Lakbay Aral </li>
<li>No licensing of heavy firearms </li>
<li>War against drug must be start in the Baranggay Level</li>
<li>No court order needed to stop noise pollution</li>
<li>No Drinking of Alcohol and smoking in public places</li>
<li>A Department for Overseas Workers</li>
<li>No more uniforms for student. </li>
<li>Mindanao issues and federalism</li>
<li>Scarborough Shoal Issue</li>
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Earlier, Duterte also revealed his top choices to lead the Arm Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police. He is considering Lt. General Ricardo Visaya for the postion of AFP chief of staff and three former Davao city police chief are candidates for PNP chief. These are Chief superintendent Ronald Dela Rosa, Chief superintendent Ramon Apolinario and Sr. Supt Rene Aspera.</p>

[Highlights] Rodrigo Duterte First Public Appearance as President-Elect

A week after the 2016 Presidential Election, Rodrigo Duterte make his first public appearance as the President Elect of the Philippines in ...

The Word of the Year is Selfie

<p>The word "Selfie" was declared Word of the Year among other 12 nominees at the recently held Sawikaan 2014.<br />
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Selfie was also the Oxford Word of the Year for 2013, the term means a self portrait photograph typically taken  with a hand-held digital camera or a smartphone. Selfies are often shared on different social networking sites such as Facebook and Instagram.<br />
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According to CNN, the earliest usage of the word selfie was in 2002, in an Australian chat room to describe an undignified scene.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Selfie beat other 12 competitors including hastag, pdaf, imba and peg. For Full list of Word of the Year Nominees, click <a href="http://www.tdtrend.com/2014/09/here-are-nominees-for-2014-word-of-year.html">here </a>.</span></div>
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Earlier this year, Makati and Pasig was named as the <a href="http://www.tdtrend.com/2014/03/makati-and-pasig-named-as-selfie.html">Selfie Capital of the World</a> by the Time Magazine. With 258 selfie takers per 100,000 people.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The words that were chosen before were canvass (2004), jueteng (2005), lobat (2006), miskol (2007), jejemon (2010)  and wangwang (2012).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">According to Sawikaan, the nomination of the words is base on its popularity and have resulted a big influence in the political, socio-cultural, economic and other aspects that involves or influence Filipino life. Also, the word may be an old which developed a new </span><span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD12" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: white; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(27, 142, 222) !important; border-bottom-style: dotted !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; line-height: 19.2000007629395px; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static;">meaning</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;"> or may be borrowed from foreign languages.</span></span></div>
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The Word of the Year is Selfie

The word "Selfie" was declared Word of the Year among other 12 nominees at the recently held Sawikaan 2014. Selfie was also the ...

Here are the Nominees for 2014 Word of the Year

<p>Imba, the famous word of gamer's today is one of the nominees for 2014 Word of The Year together with 12 other words and one one them will be chosen at Sawikaan 2014 today. ( I wonder why "AW" and "WEW" were not nominated).<br />
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The Nominees are:<br />
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<li>hashtag</li>
<li>pdaf</li>
<li>selfie</li>
<li>whistle blower</li>
<li>storm surge</li>
<li>imba</li>
<li>Filipinas</li>
<li>riding in tandem</li>
<li>cctv</li>
<li>peg</li>
<li>endo</li>
<li>kalakal</li>
<li>bossing</li>
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According to Sawikaan, the nomination of the words is base on its popularity and have resulted a big influence in the political, socio-cultural, economic and other aspects that involves or influence Filipino life. Also, the word may be an old which developed a new meaning or may be borrowed from foreign languages.</div>
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The words that were chosen before were canvass (2004), jueteng (2005), lobat (2006), miskol (2007), jejemon (2010)  and wangwang (2012).</div>
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<i>Sawikaan 2014: Pagpili ng Salitan ng Taon </i>is organized by the Filipinas Insitute of Translation Inc., in partner with the National Commission for Culture and Arts, Komisyon ng Wikang Pilipino and University of the Philippines College of Arts and Letters.</div>
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Ikaw? ano ang <i>bet </i>mong mapili bilang Word of the Year?</div>
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Here are the Nominees for 2014 Word of the Year

Imba, the famous word of gamer's today is one of the nominees for 2014 Word of The Year together with 12 other words and one one them wi...

Busting Out A Hoax: Cosmic Rays From Mars Will Hit Earth

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Hoaxes have been part of the satirical world of the Internet ever since. Different hoax had been a global and phenomenal trend ever since. Some are really obviously false while other hoax is almost as near as a fact. Hoax had since then shaped the course of human life in different perspectives everyday.</div>
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One hoax news had recently spread these past days and this hoax is about cosmic rays from Mars that will hit Earth. This cosmic rays was rumored in the hoax that can cause high radiation in opened gadgets and it is added to the hoax that everyone mus turn off their gadgets starting 10:30pm up to 3:30am tomorrow. The hoax had spread all over the country thru text and was spammed all over other cellphone users. This hoax had started in late 2010 in the US in which BBC news had posted a <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8465619.stm" target="_blank">news</a> article about it.</div>
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So what are these cosmic rays? A cosmic ray is a immensely high-energy radiation that originates outside the solar system. There is no confirmed study where cosmic rays come from but researches from NASA states that these cosmic rays come from supernovae, active galactic nuclei, quasars, and gamma-ray bursts. As contrary to the hoax, there is still no confirmed information that heavenly bodies such as planets can create cosmic rays and Earth has a stable atmosphere that can protect its inhabitants from cosmic rays.</div>
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My own opinions about this hoax is that this thing is 100% obviously satirical to people who has idea in the field of modern electronics and computers. If we do got caught by the satire news and followed such order, every computer and gadget will be turned off which will also include the vital computers used by radar operators in airports, weather agencies, or even in broadcasting stations. Shutting these down just for that kind of joke would cripple the entire nation in a very disastrous manner. Instead of putting nonsense hoaxes just to get the attention of the people, we should instead use it to spread information on what really cosmic rays are.</div>
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Busting Out A Hoax: Cosmic Rays From Mars Will Hit Earth

Hoaxes have been part of the satirical world of the Internet ever since. Different hoax had been a global and phenomenal trend ever since. ...

Malaysia Airlines MH17 incident: A Flashback to Previous Commercial Airliners Shot Down

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The world is surely shocked after hearing the news of another passenger civilian airliner being shot down by possibly military(?) or rebel(?) personnels, in form of the incident which involved the Malaysia Airlines 17 which is bound to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia coming from Amsterdam, Netherlands. These type of shot-down incidents is not new in aviation history. Here, we take a look back to previous related incidents before the shot down of Malaysia Airlines 17.</div>
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<li><b>Siberian Airlines 1812 (October 4, 2001)</b><br />The flight is bound from Tel Aviv, Israel to Novosibirsk, Russia on October 4, 2001. The aircraft, which is a Tupolev Tu-154 was reportedly shot down by a Ukranian surface-to-air missile, leaving all 78 passengers, composed of 66 passengers and 12 flight crew on-board, dead. Ukraine paid an amount of $15 million to the surviving family members of those who died on the incident.</li>
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<span style="text-align: left;">The September 21 incident involved a Tupolev  Tu-134 aircraft belonging to Transair Georgia bound from Sochi to Abkhazia. As it was going on approach to Sukhumi-Babusheri Airport in Abkhazia, it was reported to be hit by a rebel surface-to-air missile and crashed immediately at Black Sea, killing all the 5 crew members and 22 passengers. The September 22 incident involved a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft belonging to the same airline company (Also, it was reported that it carried Georgian soldiers on-board) bound from Tbilisi to Abkhazia. As it approaches the Sukhumi-Babusheri Airport, it was shot down once again by rebels and crashed immediately on the airport's runway, killing 108 of 132 passengers and crew on-board.</span></div>
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<b>Iran Air 655 (July 3, 1988)</b></div>
This incident involves an Airbus A300 passenger aircraft owned by Iran Air and is bound from Tehran to Dubai and was shot down by the United States Navy cruiser USS Vincennes on July 3, 1988. According to the investigation, it was shot down by the cruiser for mistaking that it is an Iranian F-14 Tomcat fighter aircraft. The incident left 290 fatalities composed of 290 passengers and 16 flight crew. This incident is considered to be the seventh deadliest aviation disaster in aviation history (Excluding the 9/11 attacks).</li>
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<li><b>Korean Airlines 007 (September 1, 1983)</b><br />This incident is probably one of the most notorious in the Cold War time between the USSR and the United States. The incident involves a Boeing 747 owned by Korean Airlines bound from New York City to Seoul, with a stop over in Anchorage, Alaska. As the aircraft is approaching near the Soviet airspace, it was shot down by a Soviet Su-15 fighter aircraft, leaving 269 passengers and crew on-board dead, including Lawrence McDonald which was the congressman of the state of Georgia at that time. The USSR denied the involvement at the incident at first but later admitted to shot down the plane, believing it was carrying American spies. This incident had sparked the usage of GPS to civilian use and especially, to passenger aviation.</li>
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<li><b>Air Rhodesia 825 and 827 (September 3, 1978 and February 12, 1979)</b><br />The incident involves two different aircraft from Air Rhodesia in which both are shot down by the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) during the Rhodesian Bush War. The Flight 825 incident, which happened on September 3, 1978 involves a Vickers Viscount aircraft bound from Victoria Falls to Salisbury, both cities are from Rhodesia. The ZIPRA shot down the aircraft using a surface-to-air missile crashing it immediately leaving 48 of 56 people on-board dead. Investigations however, said that 38 died immediately in the crash and the 10 were massacred by ZIPRA immediately after the crash.<br />Five months later on February 12, 1979, Another Air Rhodesia flight was shot down by the ZIPRA once again. The incident involved again a Vickers Viscount aircraft, bound from Kariba to Salisbury, Rhodesia, was shot down by ZIPRA using a shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missile which crashed the aircraft immediately. The second incident left all 59 people on-board dead.</li>
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<li><b>Libyan Arab Airlines 114 (February 21, 1973)</b><br />This incident in February 21, 1973 involved a Boeing 727 aircraft, bound from Tripoli, Libya to Cairo, Egypt via Benghazi, Libya. The aircraft got lost contact because of the combined bad weather conditions and equipment failure over the northern areas of Egypt. The aircraft entered the Sinai Peninsula (Which is a part of Israeli airspace) without communication and was intercepted by two Israeli Air Force F-4 Phantoms. After the fighter pilots had thoughts that the civilian aircraft's pilot refuse to cooperate with their commands, they shot the aircraft, crashing it and leaving 105 of 113 people on-board dead. Due to the error of the incident, Israel paid compensations to the families' victims.</li>
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<li><b>Cathay Pacific C-54 (July 23, 1954)</b><br />This incident happened on July 23, 1954 which involved a Cathay Pacific C-54 Skymaster aircraft bound from Bangkok, Thailand to Hong Kong. The plane was shot down by China's PLAAF LA-11 fighter planes, causing it to crash to the sea, killing 10 of 19 passengers on board. China then claimed responsibility to the crash and made compensation to Cathay Pacific and to the survivors. It is rumored as well that the Chinese government had executed the pilots who shot down the said aircraft.</li>
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Malaysia Airlines MH17 incident: A Flashback to Previous Commercial Airliners Shot Down

The world is surely shocked after hearing the news of another passenger civilian airliner being shot down by possibly military(?) or rebel(...

List of Nationwide Holidays for 2015

<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Mark your Calendars and plan your vacations for next year as P-Noy issued the Proclamation  no. 831 , s. 2014 enumerating nationwide holidays 2015 including at least nine long-weekends.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Proclamation 655 also states that all holidays except those religious nature will be moved to the nearest Monday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here are the complete list of all Regular Holidays, Special Non-Working Holidays and Special Holiday (All-Schools) for next year (2015)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">January 1, 2015, Thursday – New Year’s Day (Regular holiday)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">January 2, 2015, Friday - Additional special non-working day (Special non-working day)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">February 19, 2015, Thursday – Chinese New Year (Special non-working day)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">February 25, 2015, Wednesday – EDSA Revolution anniversary (Special holiday)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">April 2, 2015, Thursday – Maundy Thursday (Regular holiday)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">April 3, 2015, Friday – Good Friday (Regular holiday)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">April 4, 2015, Saturday – Black Saturday (Special non-working day)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">April 9, 2015, Thursday – Araw ng Kagitingan (Regular holiday)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">May 1, 2015, Friday – Labor Day (Regular holiday)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">June 12, 2015, Friday – Independence Day (Regular holiday)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">August 21, 2015, Friday – Ninoy Aquino Day (Special non-working day)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">August 31, 2015, last Monday of August – National Heroes Day (Regular holiday)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">November 1, 2015, Sunday – All Saints Day (Special non-working day)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">November 30, 2015, Monday – Bonifacio Day (Regular holiday)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">December 24, 2015, Thursday - Additional special non-working day (Special non-working day)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">December 25, 2015, Friday – Christmas Day (Regular holiday)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">December 30, 2015, Wednesday – Rizal Day (Regular holiday)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">December 31, 2015, Thursday – Last day of the year (Special non-working day)</span></div>
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List of Nationwide Holidays for 2015

Mark your Calendars and plan your vacations for next year as P-Noy issued the Proclamation no. 831 , s. 2014 enumerating nationwide holiday...

Air Algerie Plane Has Crashed in Mali

<p>A plane operated by Air Algerie has crashed in Mali early Thursday, July 24 2014  on its way to Algiers after taking off a few minutes in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Officials said that the Plane have 116 passengers and 6 crew members onboard.<br />
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A Diplomat in the Malian Capital, Bamako said that the northern part of the country was struck by a powerful sandstorm where the plane's flight path likely lies.<br />
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The Aircraft took off from Burkina Faso and was supposed to land in Algiers but failed to reach its destination.<br />
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Air Navigation services loses track of the plane after takeoff and report said that the plane is missing for hours before the news was made. </div>
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An Air Algerie representative in Burkina Faso released the list of passengers on the plane included 50 french, 24 Burkinabe, 8 Lebanese,  4 Algerians, 2 from Luxembourg, 1 from Belgium, one Swiss, one from Nigeria, one Cameroonian, one Ukrainian and one Romanian in a press conference later that day. all 6 crew members are Spanish<br />
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Air Algerie Plane Has Crashed in Mali

A plane operated by Air Algerie has crashed in Mali early Thursday, July 24 2014 on its way to Algiers after taking off a few minutes in Ou...

TransAsia Airways Crashed on Taiwan

<p>A TransAsia Airways passenger plane crashed into a residential building in Penghu Islands, Taiwan.<br />
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The Plane is making its second attempt to land in a stormy weather after it crashed and killed over 40 people. <br />
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Report from a British newspaper, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/taiwan/10985887/Taiwan-jet-tragedy-latest.html">The Telegraph</a>, said that the 72-seater passenger plane was carrying 50 adults and 4 children.<br />
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According to CNN, Typhoon Matmo which battered Taiwan last Tuesday had just left the area around the islands and there was a poor visibility as the plane was trying to land.<br />
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TransAsia Airways Crashed on Taiwan

A TransAsia Airways passenger plane crashed into a residential building in Penghu Islands, Taiwan. The Plane is making its second attempt ...

Gilas Last Home Stand Game cancelled at the last minute

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Filipino basketball fans were excited knowing this event of an exhibition game between Gilas Pilipinas and certain NBA Superstars like DeMar Derozan, Kyle Lowry, Tyson Chandler, Brandon Jennings, Damian Lilard and James Harden but all of the great expectations of basketball fans who swarmed to Araneta Coliseum last night, was turned into disappointments and anger as the event was cancelled by organizers in the last minute.</div>
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According to the organizers, as well as to the management of the NBA players, they we're not allowed to play because it will break their contract to the famous basketball association and thus, will get themselves suspended if they try continuing to play on the said exhibition game. The event started last night with basketball drills between the NBA superstars and the Gilas Pilipinas players. However, the drills had sparked confusion to the basketball fans who are waiting to the "must-see" exhibition game. In the end, the Gilas coach Chot Reyes explained everything to the fans that a practice drill will be shown, instead of the expected exhibition game.</div>
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Knowing this change in the event, the crowd began booing to the people in the court, somewhat disappointed about the information that there will be no exhibition game that will happen that night. Others had requested a refund since it was known that the tickets ranged from prices P750 up to P23000. Then when the event is wrapping up, disappointed fans swarm the exits of Araneta Coliseum, full of disappointments. Despite the epic-fail event, fans still looked up at the merchandise sold outside the venue. It was also extended to their information that the event on the next day, July 23, is cancelled as well.</div>
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Meanwhile, Manny V. Pangilinan and the rest of the management PLDT send their sincerest apologies to the fans regarding the cancelled event and offers a refund to all of the fans who bought tickets.</div>
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Gilas Last Home Stand Game cancelled at the last minute

The event's promotional advertisement Filipino basketball fans were excited knowing this event of an exhibition game between Gilas ...

Missile Downs Malaysia Airlines MH17

<p>The Malaysia Airlines MH17 was flying 1000 feet above restricted airspace from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was shot down near the village of Grabovo, An area controlled by pro-Russian separatists.<br />
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Malaysia Airlines confirmed that it has lost contact with Flight MH17 and it's last know position was over the Ukrainian  Airspace.<br />
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Malaysia Airlines has lost contact of MH17 from Amsterdam. The last known position was over Ukrainian airspace. More details to follow.<br />
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Report said Ukrainian authorities had barred the aircraft up tp 32,000 feet but the aircraft was cruising 33,000 feet, still within the range of a surface-to-air missile. 15 crew and 280 passengers were killed.<br />
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Some <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MH17?src=hash">#MH17</a> nationalities via MH: 154 Dutch
27 Australia
23 Malaysia
11 Indonesia
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1 Canada Others TBD<br />
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Kyung Lah, A CNN National Correspondent posted a list on Twitter of some passenger's nationalities board in MH17. 3 of them are Filipinos.<br />
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The Ukrainian government accused the pro-Russia rebels for downing a jet. Pres. Petro Poroshenko said that is not an accident or catastrophe but an act of terrorism.<br />
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Missile Downs Malaysia Airlines MH17

The Malaysia Airlines MH17 was flying 1000 feet above restricted airspace from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was shot down near the vill...

She's Dating The Gangster Gross P15 Million on its First Day

<p><span style="font-family: inherit;">The film of one of the famous love teams in the country, Daniel Padilla and Kathryn Bernardo earned P15 million on its opening day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Despite of the the storm on its opening day last July 16, 2014 in some part of Luzon and Visayas, Kathniel fans still managed to watch the much-awaited romactic film by Star Cinema.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It was announced by Start Cinema advertising and promotions manager Mico Del Rosario on Istragram on the next day, July 17, 2014.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">P15 Million yesterday alone! Maraming maraming salamat po!!! Love,, #teamgangster #shesdatingtheganster</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The story revolves around Athena Dizon(Kathryn Bernardo), a 17-year-old student, and Kenji Delos Reyes (Daniel Padilla), a rebellious teenager. They begin a false romance in order to spite Kenji's ex-girlfriend, and Athena thinks everything will be fine. She slowly realises that her life is not as steady, as her relationship with Kenji inevitably transforms into something greater.</span></span></div>
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She's Dating The Gangster Gross P15 Million on its First Day

The film of one of the famous love teams in the country, Daniel Padilla and Kathryn Bernardo earned P15 million on its opening day. Despit...

A Wedding That Will Move You

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17px;">Early this year, Rowden Go Pangcoga and Leizl is about to get married on July 8, 2014, Rowden's 30th birthday. Together with their adorable 2-year-old daughter, they already had a perfect family.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;">Then a twist of fate, Rowden got diagnosed with stage IV liver cancer in late May. His last request was to marry his one true love. With just 12 hours of preparattion, his dream was fulfilled. Because Rodwen is unable to go out of the hospital, they brought the church to him.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;">Rowden Go, at the age of 29-years-old, passed away on June 11, 2014. Less than 10hours after he said his vows.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;">He is survived by his wife Leizel May, daughter Zakiah Rowzel, mother Lorelei, and brothers Hasset & Hisham.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The video of their wedding gone viral over the pas few days on different social networking sites.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">Our family would like to thank the Main Man up above, Jesus Christ, for orchestrating this very inspiring story. And for giving us enough time to give Rowden what he wanted, and show him how loved he was.</span></span> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">A huge shoutout to Michael Sy Yu and his awesome team for taking the job of covering the wedding in a very very short notice, as well as for making this rad video. You guys are heaven sent! -</span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-oKtY3bNTl0Iqz5vjBGmHw" style="line-height: 17px;">Hasset Go</a></span></blockquote>
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Credits to the owner of the video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-oKtY3bNTl0Iqz5vjBGmHw">Mr. Hasset Go</a></p>

A Wedding That Will Move You

Early this year, Rowden Go Pangcoga and Leizl is about to get married on July 8, 2014, Rowden's 30th birthday. Together with their ador...

Philippines has Slowest Internet Connection in Southeast Asia

<p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Philippine has an average internet speed of 3.54 megabits per second according to ASEAN DNA that shows that the country has slowest internet connection in the whole Association of South East Asian Nations.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17.15999984741211px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Despite being regarded as the social media capital of the world, the Philippines has the slowest internet speed in the entire Southeast Asian region and is ranked 158th out of 190 countries worldwide. - Inquirer.net</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Singapore has the fastest internet speed with 61.0 megabits per second followed by Japan that has 41.7 megabits per second. The report showed that the avereage internet speed for ASEAN regions is 12.5 Mbps, which is four times faster that the current internet speed of the Philippines. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Other ASEAN nations that did not reach the Asean average internet speed are Laos(4.0 Mbps), Indonesia(4.1 Mbps), Brunei and Myanmar(4.9 Mbps) Malaysia(5.5 Mbps) and Cambodia(5.7 Mbps). While Vietnam(13.1 Mbps) reach the above average for Asean Average Internet Speed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">ASEAN nations that reach or above Average Global Internet Speed which is 17.5 Mbps are Thailand(17.7 Mbps), China(18.3 Mbps) Japan(41.7 Mbps) and Sigapore(61.0 Mbps)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Just last February 2014, <a href="http://www.tdtrend.com/2014/02/philippine-has-slowest-lte-broadband-in.html">Philippine also rank as the slowest LTE or Long Term Evolution connection</a>  and Globe has the poorest coverage and slowest connection in the world by Opensignal.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">According to the report, Australia has the fastest average LTE speeds in the world while the USA and the Philippines is the slowest.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">Globe has the poorest </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">coverage</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;"> and slowest connection with 38% at a time among the 38 telecommunications network worldwide and was even described as "Worst Performing Network" according to the study. While Smart is at 6th with poorest </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">coverage</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;"> at 48%</span></span></p>

Philippines has Slowest Internet Connection in Southeast Asia

Philippine has an average internet speed of 3.54 megabits per second according to ASEAN DNA that shows that the country has slowest internet...

Watch ABS-CBN 2014 Summer Station ID "PINASmile"

<p>The new summer station ID of ABS-CBN for 2014 officially launched last Sunday titled "PinasSmile".<br />
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According to the station, the new station ID aims to promote the Philippines unique travel destination that takes pride in the beauty of each region, the country's colorful culture and the stories behind the unique and infectious smile of Pinoys.<br />
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<span style="line-height: 17px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Filipinos will always choose to smile amidst hardships; we find happiness even in the small things. We know how to be grateful and remain positive. We believe in the goodness of others. Indeed, despite the calamities that severely damaged our country, the Filipino optimism shines through. - AbsCbnOnline</span></span></blockquote>
According to a news website 'Gallup', Philippines is one of the top 10 Happiest Country in the World<br />
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The new station ID showed various parts of the country such as Baguio, Batanes and Mt. Pinatubo.<br />
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Watch ABS-CBN 2014 Summer Station ID "PINASmile"

The new summer station ID of ABS-CBN for 2014 officially launched last Sunday titled "PinasSmile". According to the station,...

The Most Shocking Second a Day Video

<p><span style="font-family: inherit;">I was watching some random videos at Youtube until I ended up watching this PSA by <a href="http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/save-syria-children?utm_campaign=Syria&utm_medium=YouTube&utm_source=syriayt2&sisearchengine=343&siproduct=syriayt2"><span style="color: blue;">Save The Children Organization</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A young girl's life gets turned upside-down in this tragic second a day video.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It may not be happening here but in Syria the horror portrayed in their latest video is all too real. Three years of civil war has devastated the live of an entire generation of children. It's cost the lives of more than 11,000 children and turned more than 1 million into refugees. It has subjected them to trauma, indiscriminate shelling and even torture. <span style="line-height: normal;"> - </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://savethechildren.org.uk/">SaveTheChildren.org.uk</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Save the Children is doing whatever it takes to keep Syrian refugee children and those trapped inside Syria, safe and healthy. But Syria's children need all of us to demand peace if they are to have any hope for the future. - <span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue;"><a href="http://savethechildren.org.uk/">SaveTheChildren.org.uk</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">To know more about the video and how you can help visit their website.<br />Click here <a href="http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/save-syria-children?utm_campaign=Syria&utm_medium=YouTube&utm_source=syriayt2&sisearchengine=343&siproduct=syriayt2"><span style="color: blue;">Save Syria's Children | Save The Children UK</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You can help them in simple ways, just sharing their video is showing them you really care and help them inform others. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Use the power of social media, instead  of posting useless stuff, why don't you share something that may help make our world a better place?</span></div>
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The Most Shocking Second a Day Video

I was watching some random videos at Youtube until I ended up watching this PSA by Save The Children Organization A young girl's life ...

It's a Hoax! No One Died Because of Flappy Bird

<p>It's all over the internet today that the creator of the famous game "Flappy Bird", Don Nguyen commit suicide after he shut down the game permanently.<br />
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The news was originally posted from <a href="http://huzlers.com/creator-flappy-bird-commits-suicide-minutes-removing-flappy-bird-app-store/">http://Huzlers.com</a><span style="color: blue;">, </span>A satire news website.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: inherit;">Flappy Bird developer Dong Nguyen has just been found dead in his home with a gunshot wound in his head. Authorities are confirming that Nguyen committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a pistol. Authorities are saying that the sensational game Flappy Bird had something to do with the suicide. - <a href="http://huzlers.com/creator-flappy-bird-commits-suicide-minutes-removing-flappy-bird-app-store/">http://huzlers.com</a></span></span></blockquote>
Huzlers[dot]com description states that the website is a combination of real shocking news and satire news to keep the visitors in a state of disbelief". If you visit the Facebook Fan page of Huzlers you can also see their tagline "you're love being lied to".<br />
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Rumors said that Don Nguyen is earning $50,000 a day from game advertisement revenue, It said to be that the creator could not handle the publicity and the overrated news of media and decided to shut down the game permanently.<br />
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T<span style="font-family: inherit;">his is not the first time that netizen been victim of Hoaxes. Fake news about a teen boy that got arrested for killing his brother because of the a high score in the famous game Flappy Bird also shock the Social Media world. The news was also from the satire </span>website<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Huzler[dot]com.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">the bottomline is t</span>he creator did not commit suicide but he did announce to take down the game.<br />
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It's a Hoax! No One Died Because of Flappy Bird

It's all over the internet today that the creator of the famous game "Flappy Bird", Don Nguyen commit suicide after he shut do...

The Tragic Bontoc Bus Crush

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<span style="text-align: justify;">The morning of February 7 was strucked right ahead of a tragic accident somewhere in the highest and mountainous areas of Bontoc, Mountain Province.</span></div>
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A bus fell off a ravine in Bontoc, Mountain Province which led to the deaths of 14 people, including two foreign nationals and the famous comedian, Arvin "Tado" Jimenez, and 20 injured. The bus, owned by GV Florida Transport was traveling for already 12 hours from Sampaloc, Manila and it was 30 minutes away from its destination when the accident happened. The bus company is also known to travel that same route directly from Manila since 2013.</div>
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The accident resulted for a prompt of LTFRB to suspend the franchise of the 228 units of GV Florida and putting all of its units to vehicular tests, as well as their drivers for a drug examinations. Another news that followed after the accident is that the plate number of the bus unit that was involved in the accident wasn't registered to GV Florida but to another bus company, Mountain Province Cable Tours. The tragic accident as well prompted the lawmakers to create laws governing the management of bus companies, in order to protect the passengers.</div>
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The Tragic Bontoc Bus Crush

The morning of February 7 was strucked right ahead of a tragic accident somewhere in the highest and mountainous areas of Bontoc, Mountain ...

BPI Globe BanKo Microsavings

<p>What is BPI Globe BanKo Microsavings?<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">The BanKO savings account is designed to cater to the needs of the unbanked. This account does not require customers to maintain a minimum balance and they can save as little as P50 at a time. BanKO customers can cash in and cash out funds in their accounts through 2,000 BanKO partner outlets nationwide.  BanKO and non-BanKO customers alike may cash-in to another BanKO accountholder at partner outlets as well. -- </span><a href="http://banko.com.ph/page/view/16" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Banko.com.ph</a><br />
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BanKo was introduced and became popular when the noontime show Eat Bulaga is giving away a savings account from them to their winners of Juan 4 All All 4 Juan with an initial deposit and it's up for the winner if they will continue to save money.<br />
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They will also provided with an ATM card that can be used to withdraw funds from any ATM nationwide. Each ATM withdrawal is charged a service fee of P15.<br />
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Each depositors that have a P2000 average daily balance can earn up to 1% to 3%  per annum plus free life insurance coverage up to five times of the size of their average balance. Not bad eh?<br />
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You can also <a href="http://www.tdtrend.com/2012/07/send-money-pay-bills-and-buy-load-using.html">send money, pay bills and buy load using your phone</a> with your BPI Globe BanKo account.<br />
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To open a Banko Microsaving account just visit any <a href="http://www.tdtrend.com/2012/01/bpi-globe-banko-branches.html"><span style="color: blue;">Banko partner outlets</span></a> with the following requirments.<br />
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With this kind of  savings account, there is no more excuse for you not to save your money so go to the nearest BanKo partner outlets and start saving. </div></p>

BPI Globe BanKo Microsavings

What is BPI Globe BanKo Microsavings? The BanKO savings account is designed to cater to the needs of the unbanked. This account does not...

[Video]YouTube Rewind: What Does 2013 Say?

<p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">To celebrate 2013, </span></span><span style="line-height: 17px;">YouTube</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 17px;"> invited some YouTubers to star in a </span></span><span style="line-height: 17px;">mash up</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 17px;"> of popular moments last year. Can you spot all the references?</span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">Can you name all the YouTube stars in the video? Did you get all the references to the top videos and memes of the year? (Also look for the secret easter egg video annotations!)</span></span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17px;">#REWIND2013</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17px;">Best watched in HD!</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br />
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ABNKKBSNPLAko?! The Movie (OFFICIAL TRAILER)

<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;">In Cinemas on February 19, 2014</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;">Ito ang kwento ni Roberto. Ito ang kwento ng estudyanteng Pinoy from the 80s, to the 90s, to the 2000s and beyond! Ito ang throwback movie ng taon, ang barkada movie ng taon, ang feel-good movie ng taon, ang everything movie ng taon!</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;">Starring Jericho Rosales, Andi Eigenmann, Meg Imperial, and Vandolph, Bob Ong's ABNKKBSNPLAko?! The Movie ang pinakaaabangang pelikula ngayon Malapit na! - VIVA ENT</span></span><br />
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Jericho Rosales will play the main role of Roberto, together with Andi Eigenmann, Vandolph and Meg <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 0, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: dotted !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static;">Imperial </span>and will be directed by Mark Meily.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">ABNKKBSNPLAko?! is a 2001 novel by Bob Ong. The title meant to be read as "Aba Nakakabasa Na Pala Ako?!". The Novel is about the </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">childhood memories of the author, his earliest day as a student until his few years oh his work.</span></div>
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