When everyone thought that the United States is really tightening its belt after going through the financial crises and has not fully-recovered yet, an opening of the most expensive school in history is scheduled next month.
The Robert F. Kenney Community Schools that costs around $578 million is expected to house more than 4,200 students.  The school in Los Angeles especially [...]

When you thought that all the buzz and noise that the African instrument emanates is all limited during the World Cup, well, the vuvuzela has taken also language by storm.
Vuvuzela is most recently been added on the Oxford Dictionary for English, one of the 2,000 new words beefing up the third edition of the dictionary with words mostly coming from [...]

A torture video was watched by millions of televiewers last night on ABS-CBN with a suspect of a hold-up naked and being physically abused by police officers in a community police station in Manila.
The secretary of the Justice Department and former Commission on Human Rights chief strongly condemned the action of police officers saying,
“There is no place in our society [...]

President Noynoy “P-Noy” Aquino has launched his own website as President of the Republic of the Philippines today as announced by Presidential Communications Office for Operations Secretary Herminio Coloma.  The website will feature all the events and announcements about President Noy Aquino: speeches, photos, videos, and whereabouts.
It is also connected to social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Friendster and [...]

A comprehensive agreement between the Hacienda Luisita management and farmers has been reached said the representatives of both camps and the spokesperson of the Palace despite the petition of farmers still hanging on a balance at the Supreme Court.
The controversial agreement to settle the decades-old dispute on one of the largest agricultural estate in the Philippines included on the Comprehensive [...]

A neophyte lawmaker in the 15 Congress of the Philippines is filing a bill that seeks to police government employees on using social networking sites in government offices and government corporations, in particular Facebook and Twitter.
Rep. Romero Quimbo of Marikina filed House Resolution No. 184 that aims to regulate the use of social networking sites on government offices.  Rep. Quimbo [...]

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Rep. Manny Pacquiao of Saranggani is really the most popular lawmaker in the present 15th Congress of Philippines.  After receiving applause for asking his bickering colleagues to move on (well, I am not pretty sure if he was applauded for what he said or simply because he is popular), the boxing champ is in a middle of a hullabaloo for [...]

Smoking may soon not be too relaxing at all to those who are used to ease out tensions from their system with a few puff as the government is bent on increasing cigarette tax.
The Department of Health (DOH) two days ago announced that the government is to increase taxes on cigarette by P4.50 per stick which easily makes a box [...]

It seems that austerity measures are not only President Noynoy Aquino’s platform on a government that has lavishly spent taxpayers’ money in the past.  The president of European powerhouse, Germany, is in hot water over what is now dubbed as the “bread scandal.”
President Christian Wulff is being criticized by people for his love of bread and baked goods from Hanover, [...]