Science
Daily Mail - Nasa scientists have obtained detailed images of star-forming space nursery millions of light years from Earth thanks to an advanced X-ray telescope. |
ABS CBN News - MANILA, Philippines - The world may not end in 2012 according to popular doomsday theories but this won't mean a stop to the barrage of calamities affecting the Philippines in the future. |
Gadling - I've bumped into Richard Branson a couple times now, in vastly different settings. The first was in the high Arctic village of Clyde River, where he'd come to join his son Sam for a weeklong ... |
Salt Lake Tribune - AP London • The European Union's top court ruled Tuesday that scientists cannot patent stem cell techniques that use human embryos for research, a decision some scientists said could threaten major medical advances if it prevents biotech... |
Perth Now - A viral hit and the real thing, according to shark experts. Picture: Pisces Fleet Sportfishing Source: Supplied THE first question that comes to mind: Are fishermen that good at Photoshop? |
UPI.com - BERLIN, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- Another satellite is expected to plummet to Earth this weekend, though the timing and location cannot be precisely determined, European scientists said. |
TechSpot - A demonstration by Tel-Aviv University's Superconductivity Group School of Physics and Astronomy shows quantum locking in action. |
REVE - Did you know that wind power is one of the most powerful tools in the box when it comes to meeting the EU's climate targets, and that it has been so since the beginning of EU climate targets? |
Vancouver Sun - Climate change is reducing the body size of many animal and plant species, including some which supply vital nutrition for more than a billion people already living near hunger's threshold, according to a study released Sunday. |
Technology
Wall Street Journal - Apple Inc.'s fiscal fourth-quarter earnings rose 54% on continued strong sales of the iPhone and iPad. However, the company's shares fell 5% in recent after-hours trading to $401.34, as results missed analysts' expectations. |
Washington Post - SAN FRANCISCO - Apple will close its retail stores for several hours Wednesday so that employees can watch a webcast of a company-wide memorial service to celebrate the life of co-founder Steve Jobs, according to a person familiar with the matter. |
CNET - This morning when RIM announced BBX, the next-generation operating system that will power BlackBerry smartphones and tablets, the BlackBerry-maker offered few details about what the OS ... |
Wired News - Let's cut to the chase here. If you're pondering buying the Acer Aspire S3, it's because you desperately want an Apple MacBook Air but are too freaking cheap to pony up the $1300 (minimum) for the 13-inch model. |
BusinessWorld Online -
PHILIPPINE LONG Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) yesterday said it was in talks with regulators for the possible divestment of its frequencies to gain approval for its planned takeover of Digital Telecommunications Philippines, Inc. (Digitel).
Philippine Star -
By Dong Magsajo (The Philippine Star) Updated October 19, 2011 12:00 AM 0 MANILA, Philippines - Anyone who's ever driven around the Sepang International Circuit (SIC) in Malaysia will surely agree - that's one tricky course.
GMANews.TV - RIM's newest flagship smartphone is the BlackBerry Bold 9900, sometimes also referred to as the BlackBerry Bold Touch. RIM's back with a fresh new Bold that's undoubtedly the best BlackBerry RIM has ever made. |
ABS CBN News -
MANILA, Philippines - The world may not end in 2012 according to popular doomsday theories but this won't mean a stop to the barrage of calamities affecting the Philippines in the future.
Engadget - The high-definition pride of your living room may not want to hear it, but it looks like ultra high-definition TV (or UHDTV) has now taken another step towards reality. |
ZDNet -
Welcome to Ubuntu. Yes, that's the new and improved Unity interface. If you want an old style GNOME interface, , look to Mint Linux.
GMANews.TV - Norwegian software maker Opera is aiming to make a splash on phones running Google's Android operating system in 2012 with a hybrid version of its browser, a tech site reported. |
GMANews.TV - "For better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, until Game Over do us part." On this note, a couple exchanged wedding vows in a ceremony themed after the classic video game Super Mario Bros. |
GMANews.TV - Women in Japan are being encouraged to donate their used brassieres to be recycled as solid fuel for industrial use. Japan Times cited a Kyodo News report where major underwear makers in Japan are taking part in the effort to recycle bras and give ... |
AZoNano.com - US based BiTMICRO Networks and its subsidiary in Philippines BiTMICRO Networks International have together launched a training centre for the design and development of microchips called the Bruce Institute of Technology (BIT). |
GMANews.TV - After receiving complaints for invading privacy, a Japanese firm toned down the functions of its "boyfriend-tracker" mobile phone application labeled by a security software provider as a "Potentially Unwanted Program. |
Wesleyan Argus -
After graduation this year, Elias Rothblatt '12 and Mac Schneider '12 plan on participating in the annual Mongol Rally. They will start in London and travel ten thousand miles across two continents before reaching ...
Reuters - Visitors try Sony Corp's head mounted display personnal 3D Viewer HMZ-T1 (R) and digital binocular DEV-3 at CEATEC JAPAN 2011 electronics show in Chiba, east of Tokyo, October 4, 2011. |
0-60 Magazine - You know, if your day is anything like ours—monitoring dozens of websites for news, planning out future stories, hooning Bentleys around midtown Manhattan and pounding Red Bull and 5-Hour Energy cocktails every twenty minutes—you could probably use a ... |
Washington Post - We just got a quick hands-on with the new Droid RAZR, and yeah—it's super, super thin. Kind of unbelievably so, actually. The Super AMOLED screen is also as rich as advertised, although the demo units here are totally marked up with fingerprints. |
Health
Manila Bulletin - By MARK ANTHONY N. MANUEL CABANATUAN, Nueva Ecija, Philippines - The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) here is promoting products of cooperatives that sell fresh and processed mushrooms, such as mushroom “sisig” and “tempura. |
The Express Tribune - By Reuters Scientist Joe Cohen, who has been working on a malaria vaccine since 1987, poses for a photograph at GlaxoSmithKline biologicals (GSK) research site in Rixensart December 8, 2010. |
Manila Bulletin - MANILA, Philippines - Glaucoma is one of the most common and severe eye disorders in people over 60. Early treatment is vital, or the condition can lead to blindness. |
Philippine Star -
COLOMBO (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka has ordered health checks on all beauty parlors in the country after a lady died while undergoing beauty treatment.
gulfnews.com - By Mick O'Reilly, Senior Associate Editor Up to 6800 patients at a private endoscopy clinic in Canada's capital could have been infected with HIV and the hepatitis B and C virus in the past ten years. |
Voice of America -
October 18, 2011 Former Irish President says Family Planning Saves Women's Lives Joe DeCapua Proponents of family planning services say each year, nearly 360000 women die from pregnancy-related causes, most of them in Africa.
InformationWeek - Federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration will fund technology to coordinate treatment for people with mental health and substance use disorders. |
Voice of America - October 18, 2011 Greek Doctors Warn of 'Health Catastrophe' Henry Ridgwell | Athens, Greece Doctors in Greece are warning of an impending health catastrophe brought about by the financial crisis. |
Philippine Information Agency -
CITY OF MATI, Davao Oriental, Oct. 18 -- “We will improve the delivery of health services rendered by the Davao Oriental Provincial Hospital” This was disclosed by Gov.
Inquirer.net -
General Santos City— Three children are dead and at least 200 people have fallen ill after drinking what is believed to be contaminated water in their village in Maasim, Sarangani, authorities on Tuesday said.
Times of India - The risk increases with age. Most cases are found in women over 40, though the number of younger women developing breast cancer is currently on the rise . |
Huffington Post - Bumper pads should never be used in infants' cribs, according to new guidelines released by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). |
Salt Lake Tribune - AP London • The European Union's top court ruled Tuesday that scientists cannot patent stem cell techniques that use human embryos for research, a decision some scientists said could threaten major medical advances if it prevents biotech ... |
TIME - When E! News anchor Giuliana Rancic announced on Monday that she is battling breast cancer, she said her cancer had been spotted by a mammogram ordered by her fertility specialist. |
Instinct Magazine (blog) - While our drug of choice usually comes in two variations, blended or on the rocks, it's reassuring to see that Americans are started to chill out on conservative stances. |
Times of India - NEW DELHI: About one-third of all malaria-affected countries are expected to eliminate the vector-borne disease in the next 10 years. |
CANOE - By QMI Agency A British man has donated his body to be mummified, and the process will be shown in a television documentary. Alan Billis, of Devon, is thought to be the first man in 3000 years to be preserved in the style of ancient Egyptian pharaohs. |
Boston Globe - A significant percentage of colon cancers could be caused by a bacteria and -- if that's indeed the case -- some tumors eventually may be prevented or treated with antibiotics, suggests a new research finding from the Broad ... |
Entertainment
GMANews.TV - Actress/TV host Kris Aquino, sister of President Benigno Aquino III, has accepted the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees' (UNHCR) offer to be an “honorary patron," the first step to becoming an ambassador of goodwill. |
BusinessWorld Online Edition - It is with sadness that I report that Lisa Macuja-Elizalde has decided to start her "Swan Song Series 2011." Over the next three years she will be bidding farewell to her roles in Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet, Giselle and Don Quixote. |
GMANews.TV - Southern Leyte is home to the Philippines' few remaining patches of roughly 6.3 million hectares (has.) of forest cover as of 2010, according to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). |
Manila Bulletin -
MANILA, Philippines - Thirteen premier Russian artists are in the country to explore various sites as the Philippines is 2011 ASEAN Culture Capital.
E! Online - You might say the level of support Star Trek star Zachary Quinto has received since coming out as a gay man is pretty much out of this world. |
Contactmusic.com - Paramount's Footloose , which held a slim lead at the box office on Friday and Saturday, lost its footing on Sunday and wound up in second place for the weekend as Disney/DreamWorks's Real Steel made a comeback, thanks to Sunday's influx of family ... |
Daily Mail - Police say Brodnicki, 46, has a history of mental illness as well as a criminal record. The mugshot - from an arrest in a case also connected with stalking - was taken in 2008 in Illinois. |
Reuters - Actress Susan Sarandon watches a table tennis game during the Volkswagen 2011 China vs. World Team Challenge event in Shanghai June 25, 2011. |
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Dr. Conrad Murray, right, and defense attorney J. Michael Flanagan, left, watch proceedings during Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011, in downtown Los Angeles. |
Manila Bulletin - MANILA, Philippines - Bb. Pilipinas-International Dianne Necio hopes to promote the Philippines as a popular and friendly destination in the world when she leaves for Chengdu, China on Thursday to compete in the 2011 Miss ... |
MTV.com (blog) - All this talk about Justin Bieber's forthcoming holiday-themed album "Under The Mistletoe," and our exclusive debut of the video for its first single, "Mistletoe," has got us to thinking, where the heck did that whole ... |
Toronto Sun - With all eyes on the Dr. Conrad Murray trial, it might have been easy to overlook another individual who'll be facing a judge in another courtroom this week. |
Philippine Star - Her song Rolling In The Deep has scored a whopping 5.3 million in digital sales. Her new single release Someone Like You is No. 1 in Billboard's Hot 100 list and also hot everywhere else. |
Wetpaint - Simon Cowell has his work cut out for him when it comes to choosing between the Top 8 girls who performed in Part One and Part Two of the judges' houses round on The X Factor. |
The Guardian - Second to nun … Julie Andrews in the 1965 film of The Sound of Music. Photograph: 20thCenturyFox/Everett/Rex Features Over half a century after its Broadway premiere, The Sound of Music is to receive its first production in Salzburg, the Austrian city... |
Manila Bulletin - FRANKFURT, Germany (DPA) - Digital technology is revolutionizing the world of literature where traditional books are giving way to non-linear and interactive methods of storytelling. |
Daily Mail - And Pink was showing off her maternal instincts again as she played with her daughter Willow Sage on the set of her new movie in New York today. |
ThirdCoast Digest - at the splendid Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. I swim among the luscious, languid colors, in a room featuring a few banquettes shaped like lily pads. |
Winnipeg Free Press - The Girls Aloud beauty ended her three-year relationship with the NFL star in May but admits they are still in regular contact and they still have a "nice" time together. |
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Philippine Stock Exchange | PHILIPPINE MUTUAL FUNDS | |||||
Company Name | NAV per share (PhP) | One Year Return (%) | Three Year Return (%) | Four Year Return (%) | Year-to-date Return (%) |
| ATR KimEng Equity Opportunity Fund | 2.7103 | -2.83% | 24.6% | 9.82% | -2.81% |
| First Metro Save & Learn Equity Fund, Inc. | 3.5832 | 5.04% | 35.72% | 17.62% | 2.72% |
| Philam Strategic Growth Fund, Inc. | 369.65 | -0.83% | 28.17% | 13.77% | -2.27% |
| Philequity Fund, Inc. | 20.3003 | 2.54% | 32.9% | 15.25% | 0.5% |
| Philequity PSE Index Fund Inc. | 2.7918 | 4.06% | 27.4% | 17.7% | 3.21% |
| Philippine Stock Index Fund Corp. * | 460.52 | 0.08% | 26.22% | 10.63% | 0.44% |
| Sun Life Prosperity Phil. Equity Fund, Inc. * | 2.6392 | 2.43% | 23.54% | 11.79% | 1.06% |
| United Fund, Inc. | 2.684 | -3.96% | 11.78% | 8.23% | -6.12% |
| ATR KimEng Asia Plus Recovery Fund, Inc. ** | $0.9317 | -17.12% | n.a. | n.a. | -17.46% |
| ALFM Growth Fund, Inc * | 180.7 | -3.74% | n.a. | n.a. | -3.72% |
| Bahay Pari Solidaritas Fund, Inc.* | 1.4123 | 3.22% | n.a. | n.a. | -0.33% |
| First Metro Save & Learn Balanced Fund Inc. | 2.0008 | 3.51% | 31.57% | n.a. | 0.62% |
| GSIS Mutual Fund, Inc. | 2.8064 | -2.36% | 23.09% | 13.48% | -4.01% |
| MFCP Kabuhayan Fund | 1.5625 | -3.02% | 17.28% | 8.11% | -2.65% |
| NCM Mutual Funds of the Phils., Inc. | 1.4147 | n.a. | n.a. | n.a. | -1.21% |
| Optima Balanced Fund, Inc. | 1.244 | 3.6% | 15.27% | 5.56% | 2.69% |
| Philam Fund, Inc. | 12.4029 | -0.43% | 24% | 12.67% | -2.01% |
| Sun Life Prosperity Balanced Fund, Inc. * | 2.6432 | 1.08% | 15.53% | 9.33% | 0.48% |
| Cocolife Dollar Fund Builder, Inc. | $0.028746 | n.a. | n.a. | n.a. | -1.55% |
| PAMI Asia Balanced Fund, Inc. | $0.9457 | n.a. | n.a. | n.a. | -6.48% |
| Sun Life Prosperity Dollar Advantage Fund, Inc. * | $2.646 | -3.64% | 5.26% | 2.08% | -1.56% |
| ALFM Peso Bond Fund, Inc. * | 274 | 4.58% | 6.21% | 6.13% | 3.31% |
| Cocolife Fixed Income Fund, Inc. | 2.0128 | 12.86% | 11.13% | 9.19% | 6.16% |
| Ekklesia Mutual Fund Inc. * | 1.6545 | 6.99% | 5.68% | 5.09% | 5.6% |
| First Metro Save & Learn Fixed Income Fund, Inc. | 1.5549 | 8.82% | 7.75% | 6.42% | 5.3% |
| Grepalife Bond Fund Corp. | 1.1768 | 1.98% | n.a. | n.a. | 3.17% |
| Philam Bond Fund, Inc. | 3.2678 | 5% | 6.29% | 5.63% | 4.11% |
| Philequity Peso Bond Fund Inc. | 2.6968 | 5.2% | 7.07% | 8.54% | 4.12% |
| Prudentialife Fixed Income Fund Inc. | 1.5993 | 2.02% | 3.31% | 4.23% | 1.07% |
| Sun Life Prosperity Bond Fund, Inc. * | 2.3067 | 4.2% | 6.4% | 4.99% | 3.99% |
| Sun Life Prosperity GS Fund, Inc. * | 1.3449 | 3.34% | 8.4% | 5.78% | 1.94% |
| ALFM Dollar Bond Fund, Inc. * | $357.5 | 1.93% | 4.67% | 4.61% | 2.57% |
| ALFM Euro Bond Fund, Inc. * | €177.37 | -1% | 3.45% | 2.57% | -0.82% |
| ATR KimEng Total Return Bond Fund, Inc. ** | $1.0275 | 1.15% | n.a. | n.a. | 2.21% |
| Grepalife Dollar Bond Fund Corp. | $1.4053 | 0.49% | 11.62% | 5.67% | 2.08% |
| Grepalife Fixed Income Fund Corp. | P1.4654 | 4.08% | 8.1% | 5.06% | 4.57% |
| MAA Privilege Dollar Fixed Income Fund, Inc. | $1.34095 | -0.38% | 4.3% | 2.72% | 4.28% |
| MAA Privilege Euro Fixed Income Fund, Inc. | €0.02794 | n.a. | n.a. | n.a. | -3.99% |
| PAMI Global Bond Fund, Inc. | $1.2293 | -0.51% | 6.09% | n.a. | 3.86% |
| Philam Dollar Bond Fund, Inc. | $1.8484 | -0.58% | 10.6% | 5.88% | 1.95% |
| Philequity Dollar Income Fund Inc. | $0.0472761 | 0.8% | 7.8% | 7.45% | 2.77% |
| Sun Life Prosperity Dollar Abundance Fund, Inc. * | $2.6338 | 1.33% | 10.26% | 5.09% | 4.15% |
| ALFM Money Market Fund, Inc. * | 105.46 | 3.35% | n.a. | n.a. | 2.37% |
| ATR KimEng Money Market Fund, Inc. | 1.1085 | 0.95% | 0.98% | -0.93% | 0.59% |
| First Metro Save & Learn Money Market Fund, Inc. | 1.0411 | 1.82% | n.a. | n.a. | 1.24% |
| Philam Managed Income Fund, Inc. | 1.1113 | 0.83% | 1.49% | 1.74% | 0.52% |
| Sun Life Prosperity Money Market Fund, Inc. * | 1.1257 | 0.34% | 0.97% | 1.44% | 0.26% |
Source: Investment Company Association of the Philippines (ICAP); * - NAVPS as of the previous banking day ** - NAVPS as of 2 banking days ago | |||||
| Lotto Game | Combinations | Draw Date | Jackpot | Winners |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Superlotto 6/49 | 11-42-08-10-43-47 | 10/18/2011 | 16,985,966.40 | 0 |
| 6Digit | 5-2-5-9-5-1 | 10/18/2011 | 2,310,634.34 | 0 |
| Swertres Lotto 11AM | 6-6-5 | 10/18/2011 | 4,500.00 | 344 |
| Swertres Lotto 4PM | 4-5-0 | 10/18/2011 | 4,500.00 | 312 |
| Swertres Lotto 9PM | 4-2-8 | 10/18/2011 | 4,500.00 | 982 |
| EZ2 Lotto Luzon 9PM | 15-10 | 10/18/2011 | 4,000.00 | 329 |
| EZ2 Lotto Vismin 9PM | 15-10 | 10/18/2011 | 4,000.00 | 8 |
| Lotto 6/42 | 40-18-38-31-17-12 | 10/18/2011 | 25,049,313.00 | 0 |
| EZ2 Lotto 11AM | 16-17 | 10/18/2011 | 4,000.00 | 84 |
| EZ2 Lotto 4PM | 22-24 | 10/18/2011 | 4,000.00 | 81 |
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