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Gulf Today - - MANILA: A special panel on Tuesday summoned former Philippine president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and 30 others to attend an inquiry on their involvement in the alleged massive cheating and similar anomalies that attended the 2004 and ... |
 | gulfnews.com - - Image Credit: AP Philippine President Benigno Aquino announced on Tuesday the military has launched air strikes against suspected outlaws in the southern town of Zamboanga Sibugay. |
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World Bank president Robert Zoellick arrived Tuesday in Manila, where he will later meet President Benigno Aquino III and some of his administration's top officials to check on the implementation of the conditional cash transfer programs and governance ...
 | Manila Bulletin - - MANILA, Philippines - Last month, the remains of an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) arrived in Manila and official reports declared her death a year ago in Saudi Arabia as a suicide. |
Malaya - -
At a private meeting Monday night, President Aquino personally thanked international singer Allan Pineda, more popularly known as Apl.
 | Inquirer.net - - BELOVED FR. POPS A sister-in-law of martyred priest Fausto Tentorio wails her grief at his funeral attended by more than 10000 people in Kidapawan City, including 88 priests and bishops, and Italian Ambassador Luca ... |
Philippine Star - - MANILA, Philippines - Bar operations of fraternities, sororities and organizations will no longer be allowed near the venue of the Bar exams next month, the Supreme Court (SC) has ... |
Malaya -
Investors may have to wait until December before the government offers new coal exploration blocks for auction, an official said. "For coal PECR (Philippine Energy Contracting Round), we have moved it to December as we are still awaiting confirmation ...
Tempo -
Manila, Philippines - Three persons were killed before dawn yesterday after a fire razed six apartments in Las Piñas City. The Bureau of Fire Protection - Las Piñas said the torched bodies of the victims were recovered from an automotive supply shop ...
Inquirer.net -
MANILA, Philippines—The Quezon City Police District released on Tuesday the picture of the suspect responsible for killing his live-in partner and her daughter who were both found dead inside their house at the University of the Philippines (UP) campus ...
 | Sun.Star - ZAMBOANGA CITY -- Abu Sayyaf bandits bombed a bridge in a hinterland village in Sulu, a military official said Tuesday. No one was hurt in the blast that happened around 9:45 pm Monday in the village of Taung, Patikul, Sulu, said Second Marine Brigade ... |
 | Manila Bulletin - - MANILA, Philippines - How did it come to pass that ours should be NAHIYA… the world's worst airport? After the smoke had cleared at EDSA and Marcos departed, the first thing that People Power did was to rename Manila ... |
| Inquirer.net - - ZAMBOANGA CITY—Four soldiers were injured when they clashed with armed men during a seaborne patrol off Sacol island here at 8:25 pm Tuesday, Colonel Buenaventura Pascual, Task Force Zamboanga chief said. |
Manila Bulletin -
TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Philippines (PIA) - Because of excellent fiscal management, Leyte's provincial government does not see the province as being adversely affected by the decrease in the internal revenue allotments (IRA) of local government units ...
BusinessWorld Online Edition -
DESPITE OPPOSITION from residents, landowners in Quezon City will shoulder a new tax that will fund housing projects for the poor under an ordinance signed by Mayor Herbert Constantine M. Bautista yesterday.
Sun.Star -
BARELY three months before Christmas and New Year, the Anti-Illegal Firecracker Task Force is urging Mayor Vicente Emano to strengthen the City Government's campaign against illegal firecrackers.
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BACOLOD CITY, Negros Occ., Philippines (PIA) - Bacolod City has topped this year's regional search for the Most Child-Friendly City and is now vying for the national award.
Philippine Star - MANILA, Philippines - A huge fire almost gutted all homes in a coastal village in General Santos City, yesterday night, leaving one person dead at least 150 families homeless. |
Sun.Star -
ZAMBOANGA City Mayor Celso Lobregat urged Tuesday the Zamboangueños to be security-conscious amid the violence in the nearby provinces of Basilan and Zamboanga Sibugay.
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MANILA, Philippines - The House of Representatives will expand its electronic voting system to accommodate all its 285 members. Negros Occidental Rep. Alfredo Benitez, author of a ...
Business
Manila Bulletin - - MANILA, Philipppines - The country's total imports in August 2011 posted a 10.4 percent growth to $4.92 billion from $4.46 billion in 2010. |
Inquirer.net -
MANILA, Philippines—While the Philippine Airlines (PAL) management has claimed that the airline's operations have normalized in time for All Saints' Day, members of the Philippine Airlines Employees Association (Palea) said they doubt this, ...
Manila Bulletin -
MANILA, Philippines - The Aquino administration posted a budget deficit of P18.501 billion in September, lower by 42 percent compared with the P31.68 billion incurred in the same month last year, the Department of Finance (DoF) reported Tuesday.
 | Financial Times - By Beppe Severgnini I've never flunked an exam in my life,” quipped Silvio Berlusconi as he emerged from talks with Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy. |
Malaya - Investors may have to wait until December before the government offers new coal exploration blocks for auction, an official said. "For coal PECR (Philippine Energy Contracting Round), we have moved it to December as we are still awaiting confirmation ... |
 | Financial News Network Online - - Krispy Kreme Doughnuts (NYSE:KKD) is one of today's notable stocks in decline, down 3.0% to $6.89. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is now trading 0.9% lower to 11803 and the S&P is trading 1.1% lower to 1240. |
 | Manila Bulletin - - MANILA, Philippines - The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has set aside a P1.1 billion this year as self-insurance fund for its properties, and this amount will be withdrawn from its surplus account. |
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MANILA, Philippines - The Malampaya gas field consortium is set to sign a Memorandum of Agreement next week to provide gas supply for 200 compressed natural gas (CNG)-run buses until 2018.
BusinessWorld Online Edition -
NICKEL ASIA Corp. yesterday reported a 131% hike in profits for January to September versus year-ago levels, citing higher sales and stronger prices.
BusinessWorld Online Edition - DESPITE OPPOSITION from residents, landowners in Quezon City will shoulder a new tax that will fund housing projects for the poor under an ordinance signed by Mayor Herbert Constantine M. Bautista yesterday. |
 | Wall Street Journal - - NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Investors flocked to the yen Tuesday, pushing it to a new post-World War II high against the dollar, with renewed uncertainty over the outcome of Europe's sovereign debt crisis summit. |
 | The Atlantic - - Can it really be true that the drum circle is about to be the end of Occupy Wall Street? File under "too weird not to be true because no one would have thought up this plot twist": Friends, mediation with the drummers has been called ... |
 | IEWY News - The European Commission's new strategy on corporate social responsibility (CSR), part of a package of measures on responsible business (see IP/11/1238), aims to help enterprises achieve their full potential in terms of creating wealth, ... |
 | Financial Times - - One in three new structured finance deals, the complex debt packages that were at the heart of the recent financial crisis, that are being rated by Fitch, are being sent back to issuers for improvements, the agency has said. |
 | Reuters UK - NEW YORK, Oct 25 (Reuters) - US crude futures jumped to a 12-week high on Tuesday in a second day of spread trading that continued to close the gap that recently put Europe's Brent oil at a record premium over its counterpart in the United States. |
 | gulfnews.com - - Many varieties of rice are available in Bangkok. The Thai government this month ordered thousands of rice mills nationwide to purchase rice from farmers at fixed prices as part of its efforts to boost rural incomes. |
Tempo - Manila, Philippines - It is still feasible for government to pursue the integration and eventual seamless operation of Light Rail Transit (LRT) line 1 and Metro Rail Transit (MRT 3), said the DoTC. |
 | Bangkok Post - The cabinet has approved a massive 325 billion baht in soft loans for flood-affected business operators together with various privileges in a bid to restore investor confidence. |
Manila Bulletin - - MANILA, Philippines - The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) will defer to next year the imposition of higher tax charges on stock transactions involving listed companies falling short of the 10-percent minimum public float rule. |
 | Forbes - By The ETF Professor Tuesday's glum action aside, from late September/early October, riskier assets have been in rally mode. Most of us know there has been a renaissance of sorts for ETFs offering equities exposure to high-beta sectors and some ... |
Sports
 | Philippine Star - MANILA, Philippines - San Beda braces for an even more intense showdown with arch rival San Sebastian as the defending champion Red Lions gun for the clincher today in Game Two of the 87th NCAA seniors basketball finals at the Smart Araneta Coliseum. |
Philippine Star -
Jay-R Reyes of Alaska loses the ball as he gets a foul from Beau Belga of Rain or Shine in Sunday's game. Rain or Shine won, 120-84.
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Energen Pilipinas' Jordan Timothy Heading eludes a Japanese defender as he goes to the basket during their FIBA Asia U-16 clash.
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MANILA, Philippines - Gee Abanilla was introduced to De La Salle University's basketball supporters as the new head coach of the Green Archers yesterday, making his official ...
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Reports coming from, of all things, an orthodontist in Los Angeles, are that Manny Pacquiao has purchased a new Ferrari 458 Italia at a price of about $225000.
Inquirer.net -
By Cedelf P. Tupas Blackwater Elite used a key third-quarter surge to hold off newcomer Dub Unlimited, 78-62, Tuesday and grab the early lead in the PBA D-League Aspirants' Cup at the San Juan Gym.
 | BoxingNews24.com - By John F. McKenna (McJack): Despite last Saturday nights snooze fest in which WBO and WBA bantamweight champion Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire (26-1, 18 KO's) shut out super flyweight champion Omar “El Huracan” Narvaez (35-1-2, 19 KO's) many ... |
 | CBC.ca - - Beginning of Story Content Maybe nice guys can finish first and strategy is overrated. With the loyal and likeable Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington one win away from defeating the cold and calculating Tony La Russa in this year's World Series, ... |
Philippine Star -
MANILA, Philippines - Plans are afoot to integrate the Southeast Asian Club Invitational as part of the Shakey's V-League calendar possibly starting next year.
Sun.Star - BAGUIO City's athletes will have their hands full anew as the Summer Capital readies for the hosting of the Batang Pinoy Regional leg slated Nov. 24 to 27. |
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Manila, Philippines - FACE OF RED CROS - Marian Rivera is the new face of Red Cross - and what a lovely face. The actress met the entertainment press Thursday to announce her all-out support for the Philippine Red Cross “Million Volunteer Run” on Dec
 | Daily Mail - - England saved the worst until the end as India completed what the locals are gleefully calling a 5-0 'brownwash'. Alastair Cook's team lost all 10 wickets for 47 runs - the worst collapse in their one-day history - to go down to a... |
 | New Zealand Herald - Samantha Stosur ended a career-long nine-match losing streak against Maria Sharapova with a 6-1 7-5 victory in their opening round robin match at the season-ending WTA Championships in Istanbul. |
 | Herald Sun - Aldershot Town's Danny Hylton (right) is tackled by Manchester United''s Ji-Sung Park in the League Cup match in Aldershot. |
 | Los Angeles Times (blog) - Gov. Chris Christie and other New Jersey officials and promoters Tuesday confirmed plans for a Formula One street race along the Hudson River in June 2013. |
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Philippine Star - -
MANILA, Philippines - The CSB-LSGH Greenies have done what all the others failed all season long in the 87th NCAA juniors basketball wars: Deal mighty San Beda Red Cubs their ...
 | Bloody Elbow - - After several cosmetic makeovers, the UFC 137: St. Pierre vs. Condit show goes live this Saturday night from the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. |
 | Inquirer.net - - Despite being within a loss of another Finals defeat at the hands of rival San Beda, San Sebastian is far from giving up. “We're going to fight it out. |
Manila Bulletin -
CALATAGAN, Batangas - Jhonnel Ababa, Mhark Fernando and Tony Lascuna hope to make the most of their early morning tee-off to build the needed momentum in the ICTSI-Calatagan championship which starts today at the Calatagan Golf and Country Club here.
Southeast Asia
 | The Australian - Thai residents seek transport along the newly flooded streets near the Chao Phraya river in Bangkok as hundreds of factories closed in the central Thai province of Ayutthaya and Nonthaburi. |
Gulf Today - - MANILA: A special panel on Tuesday summoned former Philippine president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and 30 others to attend an inquiry on their involvement in the alleged massive cheating and similar anomalies that attended the 2004 and ... |
 | TODAYonline - by S Ramesh SINGAPORE - The Republic has overtaken China as Malaysia's largest trading partner, said visiting Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin yesterday. |
| gulfnews.com - - Image Credit: AP Philippine President Benigno Aquino announced on Tuesday the military has launched air strikes against suspected outlaws in the southern town of Zamboanga Sibugay. |
GMANews.TV -
World Bank president Robert Zoellick arrived Tuesday in Manila, where he will later meet President Benigno Aquino III and some of his administration's top officials to check on the implementation of the conditional cash transfer programs and governance ...
Manila Bulletin -
MANILA, Philippines - Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang is arriving for a State Visit to the Philippines on October 26-28, 2011, on the occasion of the 35th Anniversary of the establishment of bilateral relations between the Philippines and Vietnam.
| Manila Bulletin - - MANILA, Philippines - Last month, the remains of an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) arrived in Manila and official reports declared her death a year ago in Saudi Arabia as a suicide. |
 | USA Today - PATTANI, Thailand (AP) - Thailand's military said more than a dozen coordinated bomb attacks in the country's insurgency-plagued south Tuesday killed at least three people and injured dozens. |
 | Lowy Interpreter - - Cambodia is that kind of place. Just when you think you are doing the right thing it turns out that the tentacles of the past are waiting to grab you. |
 | China Daily - 36-year-old Mariko Takechi the first Japanese national to be convicted of drug trafficking charge and first sentenced to death, was arrested at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport on October 31, 2009 for carrying 3.5 kilograms of Methamphetamines ... |
Malaya - -
At a private meeting Monday night, President Aquino personally thanked international singer Allan Pineda, more popularly known as Apl.
| Inquirer.net - - BELOVED FR. POPS A sister-in-law of martyred priest Fausto Tentorio wails her grief at his funeral attended by more than 10000 people in Kidapawan City, including 88 priests and bishops, and Italian Ambassador Luca ... |
 | Bernama - - JAKARTA, Oct 25 (Bernama) -- People's Consultative Assembly chief Taufiq Kiemas has asked his wife, Megawati Soekarnoputri, to give way to younger generation of leaders to contest in the presidential election in 2014. |
 | Jakarta Globe - - The body of Mulia police chief Adj. Comr. Dominggus Awes being loaded onto a plane to Jayapura from Mulia airport in Puncak Jaya, Papua, on Tuesday. |
 | Bangkok Post - Water levels in Khlong Hok Wa bordering Pathum Thani and Bangkok's Sai Mai district rose more than 10 centimetres yesterday, but authorities were confident the flood barrier would remain intact. |
 | Jakarta Globe - Gardener Nyoman Minta being detained at a meeting of Asean defense ministers in Nusa Dua, Bali, on Monday. Minta, riding a bicycle, unknowingly breached a security cordon when guards were focused on an aerobatics display. |
Bernama -
BANGKOK, Oct 25 (Bernama) -- Communities along Bangkok's Charansanitwong Road, starting form Bang Plad Intersection to Rama7 Bridge were submerged on Tuesday under one metre of water, reports Thai News Agency (TNA).
 | GMANews.TV - While November 7 has been declared a non-working day in the Philippines, the United States Embassy will have regular office hours on that day. |
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MANILA, Philippines - Bar operations of fraternities, sororities and organizations will no longer be allowed near the venue of the Bar exams next month, the Supreme Court (SC) has ...
 | Malaysia Star - KUALA LUMPUR: MCA will object to the proposed changes in the Income Tax Act to the National Economic Council (NEC), says party president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek. |
World
| The Australian - Thai residents seek transport along the newly flooded streets near the Chao Phraya river in Bangkok as hundreds of factories closed in the central Thai province of Ayutthaya and Nonthaburi. |
 | Sky News Australia - Tunisia's Islamist Annealed party has taken the lead in early official results, with 15 of 39 seats in five polling districts, including the cities of Sousse and Sfax, the ASA elections body says. |
 | Daily Nation - An image captured off a cellular phone camera shows the arrest of Libya's strongman Muammar Gaddafi in Sirte on October 20, 2011. |
 | Xinhua - - ANKARA, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from Sunday's powerful earthquake in southeast Turkey has risen to 459 and the number of the injured to 1352, the Turkish Prime Ministry's Disaster and Emergency Administration (AFAD) said Tuesday. |
 | The Age - Leaders from the Arab world and beyond arrive in the Saudi capital to attend the funeral of Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz. |
 | New York Times - - SANA, Yemen - The northern part of the capital city has turned into a virtual war zone in recent days, and even as the government announced a cease-fire on Tuesday, explosions boomed across the city. |
 | Sky News Australia - British Prime Minister David Cameron insists there is 'no bad blood' after 79 of his Conservative MPs defied his orders to vote in favour of a referendum on UK membership of the EU. |
 | Seattle Post Intelligencer - - KARIN LAUB, AP, RAMI AL-SHAHEIBI, Associated Press In this image made from amateur video provided by the Libya Youth Movement and filmed on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011, an injured Moammar Gadhafi is surrounded by Libyan fighters in Sirte, Libya. |
 | Bloomberg - - President Barack Obama's new mortgage-refinancing plan might help some struggling homeowners, but don't expect it to have much effect on the economy. |
 | Jerusalem Post - - US envoy to Syria's personal investigation of abuses and his shows of support for protestors is a welcome sign. The American decision to withdraw Ambassador Robert Stephen Ford from Syria should raise eyebrows, not only because it ... |
 | Reuters - - GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States ended two days of meetings with North Korea on Tuesday sounding upbeat about an eventual return to wider talks on ending Pyongyang's atomic programs but saying there was no immediate ... |
 | Daily Nation - Kenyans have a right to demand of their government iron-clad guarantees that they are safe at home, work and play. This is especially important in the wake of a military push into Somalia that would only have been planned with the full knowledge that ... |
 | Daily Nation - By NATION TEAM newsdesk@ke.nationmedia.comAND AGENCIES Police on Tuesday evening found 13 grenades during a security raid on a house in Nairobi's Kayole Estate. |
 | The Canberra Times - Think that Canberrans only want to see the Queen when it's a poifect day and any old excuse to hang in the sunshine will do? Think again, republican naysayers. |
 | Jerusalem Post - - The real fight in Israel and Palestine is between extremists and moderates. I know the majority of Palestinians and Israelis are moderates. |
 | Your Houston News - After being killed by poachers, the Javan rhinoceros in Vietnam was officially declared extinct by the World Wildlife Fund and the International Rhino Foundation on Oct. 25. |
 | The Associated Press - YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - The United States' special envoy to Myanmar has ended a visit without revealing details of meetings with officials and democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. |
Manila Bulletin - MANILA, Philippines - Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang is arriving for a State Visit to the Philippines on October 26-28, 2011, on the occasion of the 35th Anniversary of the establishment of bilateral relations between the Philippines and Vietnam. |
 | International News Network - Jerusalem: Israel and Egypt have agreed on a deal for the exchange of a suspected Israeli spy with 25 Egyptians, the Israeli prime minister's office said. |
 | DAWN.com - - US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta (R) answers questions during a joint press conference with his Japanese counterpart Yasuo Ichikawa (L) at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on October 25, 2011. |
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