Science
Sun.Star - THE Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Davao Region deputized new forest officers tasked to implement Executive Order 23 issued by President Benigno Aquino III, which bans logging in national and residual forests. |
Xinhua - JIUQUAN, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) -- For the first time, an orbiter China sends into space has a completely new mission: to rendezvous and dock with another one. |
New York Times - Re “Particles Faster Than the Speed of Light? Not So Fast, Some Say” (Oct. 25): It should be emphasized that no actual light signals were sent for comparison between CERN in Geneva and Gran Sasso in Italy. |
Chicago Sun-Times - In this Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011 photo, George Eberhardt, 107, of Chester, NJ. is given his annual flu shot by nurse Bettie Donnelly in Mendham, NJ The small bandages on his arm are to prevent him from ... |
Chicago Tribune - The Chicago company is in the process of developing a seven-person spaceship, dubbed the Crew Space Transportation-100, for the job of ferrying astronauts to and from the International Space Station now that the space shuttle program is over. |
Vancouver Sun - Chinese residents cool off on a hot summer day by the banks a river in Hefei, east China's Anhui province on July 9. Every year, millions of Chinese are victims of weather-related ... |
Slashdot - Zothecula writes "The future of the International Space Station (ISS) became more secure on Sunday, October 30, 2011 when the Russian space agency Rosocosmos carried out a successful launch of an unmanned Progress spacecraft. |
Investor's Business Daily - Heavy snow covers a snowplow in Cornwall, NY, which obviously didn't get the Berkeley global warming memo. AP View Enlarged Image Junk Science: In an attempt to revive climate hype, a chart by a Berkeley scientist claims to show global warming has not ... |
ThirdAge - An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier may yield clues to the formation of Earth when it passes by on November 8, according to researchers. |
Technology
Manila Bulletin - By BERNIE CAHILES-MAGKILAT MANILA, Philippines - Japanese compact car and motorcycle manufacturer Suzuki Philippines Inc. (SPH) is beefing up its product line up with the launch of another version of one of its most popular and fastest selling compact ... |
Sydney Morning Herald - Steve Jobs's biological sister, Mona Simpson, wrote a moving and highly personal eulogy for a private funeral service for the fallen tech titan that took place a few days after his death in early October. |
GTspirit - The Lexus LFA started as a concept car showcasing their performance credentials. The V10 powered, 560hp, 325km/h supercar went into production in December 2010. |
Portfolio.com (blog) -
It was the upgrade that launched hundreds of unhappy tweets, and even its own “occupy” hashtag. On Wednesday, social media analytics service Klout unveiled a tweak to the algorithm to make scores more accurate.
CNET - While software piracy may be enticing for some people, its drawbacks, besides theft, not only include running potentially unstable software, but also an avenue for malware to wreak havoc on your system and ... |
GMANews.TV -
Commenters on social networking site Facebook now have an opportunity to grow their subscriber base, with a "Subscribe" link in the comments box.
Wired (blog) - Panasonic may be on the cusp of launching a true pro-level successor to its excellent GF1, according to leaked photos. Ever since Panasonic started watering down its GF range of Micro Four Thirds cameras after the first model, ... |
CBS News - Siri's exclusivity on the iPhone 4S may not be long for this world. At least unofficially. Efforts to get the new software feature working on older Apple devices, including the iPhone 4 and iPod Touch, seem to have pushed past the biggest hurdle: ... |
Wired News - The Xbox Kinect is Microsoft's big push into motion-controlled gaming. You don't even need a controller to play. Just move your hands and feet with gestures that the Kinect understands, and - voila! |
PC Magazine - Electronic Arts said Monday that its Battlefield 3 game has sold five million units on a worldwide basis within its first week, the fastest-selling game in EA's history. |
San Francisco Chronicle (blog) - Some Googlers were busy recently carving giant pumpkins to form the latest Halloween Google homepage doodle. Six giant pumpkins - some weighing more than 1000 pounds - were delivered to the Mountain View headquarters, where the doodlers spent eight ... |
Sydney Morning Herald - Dozens of Fortune 100 companies had their computers compromised in a cyber espionage attack apparently linked to a Chinese national |
TMC Net - On Monday, ZDNet UK reported that BT (News - Alert) is recruiting 520 extra engineers, many of them ex-soldiers, to help speed-up the rollout of fiber-based broadband. |
CNET (blog) - America's first "4G" Windows phone is right around the corner. AT&T recently announced pricing and availability for the Samsung Focus S , which will run on AT&T's HSPA+ network (not AT&T's 4G LTE). |
SFGate.com (blog) - So what it snows there in October - Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said he prefers Boston over Silicon Valley. In an interview with Y Combinator's Startup School, Zuckerberg said if he could do it all over again, he'd choose Boston for his social ... |
USA Today (blog) - The next Resident Evil game -- which steps into the realm of third-person, squad-based shooters -- will launch for PC and consoles March 20, publisher Capcom announced. |
Pakistan Daily Times - BEIJING: Beijing on Monday denied a US commission's claim that China may have been responsible for hacking incidents on US environment-monitoring satellites, saying that the committee had “ulterior motives” in writing such a draft report. |
Digitaltrends.com - A pair of iPad 2s and a good WiFi network is all it takes for this cool Halloween costume. Still deciding what to wear for Halloween? |
Huffington Post - Google's new business street view has gone live, according to BBC. Whether people think Google's new business street view is creepy or cool, some businesses are showing off the inside of their properties on their business Google Places pages. |
Health
Washington Post - Counting up the living and the dead Every time we pass another population milestone - at the moment, we're tallying a whole-Earth total of 7 billion - the question arises: How many people have ever lived on the planet? |
Manila Bulletin -
BUTUAN CITY, Philippines - Farmers in the Caraga Region are urged to go on organic agriculture in an effort to increase their production, sustain the health of soils, ecosystem, and people.
6abc.com - Every 2 1/2 minutes, someone in America is diagnosed with lung cancer. In honor of National Lung Cancer Awareness month - which starts Tuesday - Action News is doing a special series about this disease. |
Xinhua - BEIJING, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) -- China reported about 429000 registered AIDS patients and HIV carriers as of the end of September, up by nearly 60000 over the past 11 months, according to official figures released Monday. |
CNET (blog) - If you'd like a better understanding of what it takes for sperm to be considered fertile, go grab your measuring spoons and look at the quarter teaspoon. |
Detroit Free Press - Halloween Candy Buy-Back Program: Dentists and other businesses across the country buy candy back from children after Halloween and send it to Operation Gratitude, a non-profit that puts candy in packages along with other goodies and sends them to ... |
San Jose Mercury News - Stanford surgeons seek to give two sisters a life apart, dividing their shared bodies into two in a long, delicate and risky surgery. |
Los Angeles Times - Epidemiologists at University College, London, reported their results Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academies of Science. |
Los Angeles Times - Do mammograms prevent breast cancer deaths? How about breast self-examinations? Like most other women in this country, I'm confused. |
Los Angeles Times - REPORTING FROM MEXICO CITY -- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, still one of Latin America's most popular figures 10 months after stepping down as president of Brazil, has cancer of the throat and on Monday started chemotherapy, his doctors said. |
UPI.com - NEW HAVEN, Conn., Oct. 31 (UPI) -- Pregnant women seem able to time the delivery of their babies to avoid giving birth on Halloween, given its association with "death imagery," a US study says. |
Toronto Sun - By Antonella Artuso ,Queen's Park Bureau Chief Take your medicine: This year's flu shot shot contains protection against three strains of influenza. |
Medical News Today - It's official and just as we always thought : Spending hours per day behind the wheel or crammed in a public train or bus, commuting to and from work proves to be bad for your health. |
WTSP 10 News - St. Petersburg, Florida - So it's not exactly Frankenstein, but scientists working for the British company Oxitec are creating a new kind of life form in their labs-a genetically altered mosquito. |
Pakistan Times - SRINAGAR (IHK): In occupied Kashmir, the continued illegal Indian occupation has led to serious psychological disorders among the people of the territory, according to the latest report released by ActionAid, an NGO in Srinagar, reports KMS. |
healthzone.ca - Today's the day for men to scrape the fuzz from their upper lips to create a blank canvas for Movember, the international fundraiser for prostate cancer. |
Telegraph.co.uk - A new era in regenerative treatment for the elderly could be on the way after a stem cell breakthrough, scientists said. By Nick Collins, Science Correspondent Researchers were able to successfully transform cells from patients as old as 100 into stem ... |
Daily News & Analysis - A research team based at the University of Chicago has found that large pad of fat cells that extends from the stomach and covers the intestines provides nutrients that promote the spread and growth of ovarian cancer. |
Entertainment
Daily Mail - As the dust settles on the announcement that Kim Kardashian is to divorce her husband of just 72 days, the inevitable questions arise. |
BBC News - Dr Conrad Murray deviated from accepted medical standards in his care for Michael Jackson, a medical expert said. Dr Paul White, witness for the defence, was forced to concede during cross-examination that he had never heard of propofol being used in a ... |
Philippine Star - MANILA, Philippines - Are you ready for more sex - wild and uninhibited sex on primetime television? You better clear your calendar on Nov. 3 and make sure that by the time the hour hits 10 pm on Thursday night, you are already lounging on your ... |
ABS CBN News - MANILA, Philippines - American singer-songwriter Jason Mraz serenaded thousands of his Filipino fans at the Araneta Coliseum on Sunday. |
ABS CBN News - MANILA, Philippines - "Bisperas (Trespassers)" won the Best Asian-Middle Eastern Film Award at the 24th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) on Sunday (October 30). |
Los Angeles Times (blog) - In the case of Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson's "Breaking Dawn" sex scene, it appears one can improve on perfection. |
Philippine Star - MANILA, Philippines - So it's Halloween again. Creepy decorations are out, party invites are sent, scary stories are told, and, of course, spine-chilling movies (classics ... |
Tempo - Manila, Philippines - From a fairy, a corpse bride to Captain America, kids put on their best costume for the “Be-WITCHing Halloween“ event at the Vivere Hotel in Alabang, Muntinlupa. |
Wall Street Journal (blog) - Google's YouTube site on Friday announced a list of the nearly 100 online “channels” of original, professional-grade content that will launch by the middle of next year. |
Channel News Asia - LOS ANGELES: Animated flick "Puss in Boots" topped the weekend movie earnings in a strong debut, taking in $34.1 million at the North American Box Office, industry data showed Monday. |
GhanaWeb - Over the years, Ghanaians and viewers across the world have seen and witnessed a number of pageants, each with its own theme and objectives. |
Manila Bulletin - MANILA, Philippines - When popular K-pop star and b-boy Jay Park visited the Philippines for a show last year, he was just starting his solo career and was determined to make it on his own. |
NDTV.com - The National Capital might have messed up the Metallica concert, but it compensated for that damp squib with two very big achievements. |
The Daily Star - DOHA: The third annual Doha Tribeca Film Festival came to a confused, and somewhat irritable, conclusion Saturday evening with a closing ceremony marked by the absence of any mention of the festival's Arab film competitions. |
Broadway World - The Tony Award® winning hit musical PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT and Tony Award® nominee Tony Sheldon were featured on "CBS Sunday Morning" this weekend with a special segment on the art of female impersonation that aired on the nationally syndicated ... |
Newsday (subscription) - TV Newsday > Entertainment > TV 'Glee' starts season again, without humor Published: October 31, 2011 5:14 PM By VERNE GAY verne. |
Tempo - NEW YORK (Reuters) - The doll with the dragon tattoo? With pink hair and tattoos across her shoulders and neck, US toymaker Mattel's latest collector's edition Barbie doll could be compared more to the edgy female heroine of author Stieg Larrson's ... |
MTV News - Tragedy struck the star-studded set of 'Expendables 2' when a stunt-man working on the film was killed in Bulgaria this week. |
GMANews.TV - Filipino artists in Singapore, including avant-garde icon David Cortez Medalla, will hold a "Philippine Art Trek" exhibit in Singapore in November, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said. |
Daily Mail - A group of actors and directors had a terrifying 8-floor plummet at a film premiere party Thursday night as a packed elevator malfunctioned. |
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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 | 2.7558 | -2.01% | 31.42% | 9.04% | -1.18% |
| First Metro Save & Learn Equity Fund, Inc. | 3.6813 | 6.22% | 42.75% | 17.12% | 5.53% |
| Philam Strategic Growth Fund, Inc. | 380.91 | 1.63% | 35.55% | 13.18% | 0.71% |
| Philequity Fund, Inc. | 20.997 | 5.36% | 40.78% | 15.02% | 3.95% |
| Philequity PSE Index Fund Inc. | 2.8967 | 7.16% | 36.51% | 18.57% | 7.09% |
| Philippine Stock Index Fund Corp. * | 466.53 | 1.97% | 35.87% | 9.61% | 1.75% |
| Sun Life Prosperity Phil. Equity Fund, Inc. * | 2.6531 | 2.38% | 28.67% | 10.73% | 1.59% |
| United Fund, Inc. | 2.7609 | -1.36% | 14.36% | 8.21% | -3.43% |
| ATR KimEng Asia Plus Recovery Fund, Inc. ** | $0.9456 | -15.3% | n.a. | n.a. | -16.23% |
| ALFM Growth Fund, Inc * | 183.14 | -1.24% | n.a. | n.a. | -2.42% |
| Bahay Pari Solidaritas Fund, Inc.* | 1.4194 | 4.07% | n.a. | n.a. | 0.17% |
| First Metro Save & Learn Balanced Fund Inc. | 2.0552 | 4.69% | 34.5% | n.a. | 3.36% |
| GSIS Mutual Fund, Inc. | 2.8886 | -0.04% | 29.27% | 12.91% | -1.2% |
| MFCP Kabuhayan Fund | 1.5842 | -2.22% | 21.54% | 7.48% | -1.3% |
| NCM Mutual Funds of the Phils., Inc. | 1.4497 | n.a. | n.a. | n.a. | 1.23% |
| Optima Balanced Fund, Inc. | 1.2681 | 5.39% | 19.45% | 5.96% | 4.68% |
| Philam Fund, Inc. | 12.7576 | 1.9% | 30.5% | 12.21% | 0.79% |
| Sun Life Prosperity Balanced Fund, Inc. * | 2.6587 | 1.24% | 18.95% | 8.68% | 1.07% |
| Cocolife Dollar Fund Builder, Inc. | $0.030214 | n.a. | n.a. | n.a. | 3.47% |
| PAMI Asia Balanced Fund, Inc. | $0.9643 | n.a. | n.a. | n.a. | -4.64% |
| Sun Life Prosperity Dollar Advantage Fund * | $2.6646 | -3.13% | 8.8% | 2% | -0.86% |
| ALFM Peso Bond Fund, Inc. * | 275.44 | 5.15% | 6.48% | 6.09% | 3.86% |
| Cocolife Fixed Income Fund, Inc. | 2.0137 | 12.89% | 11.12% | 9.07% | 6.21% |
| Ekklesia Mutual Fund Inc. * | 1.6648 | 7.64% | 6.34% | 5.11% | 6.26% |
| First Metro Save & Learn Fixed Income Fund | 1.5633 | 9.19% | 7.91% | 6.42% | 5.86% |
| Grepalife Bond Fund Corp. | 1.1852 | 2.87% | n.a. | n.a. | 3.91% |
| Philam Bond Fund, Inc. | 3.2745 | 4.94% | 7.86% | 5.58% | 4.32% |
| Philequity Peso Bond Fund Inc. | 2.7312 | 6.47% | 7.63% | 8.82% | 5.45% |
| Prudentialife Fixed Income Fund Inc. | 1.6106 | 2.49% | 5.93% | 4.22% | 1.79% |
| Sun Life Prosperity Bond Fund, Inc. * | 2.3179 | 4.43% | 7.08% | 5.02% | 4.49% |
| Sun Life Prosperity GS Fund, Inc. * | 1.352 | 3.53% | 9.54% | 5.79% | 2.48% |
| ALFM Dollar Bond Fund, Inc. * | $358.97 | 2.38% | 6.45% | 4.66% | 3% |
| ALFM Euro Bond Fund, Inc. * | €178.03 | -0.53% | 4.18% | 2.6% | -0.45% |
| ATR KimEng Total Return Bond Fund, Inc. ** | $1.0286 | 1.72% | n.a. | n.a. | 2.32% |
| Grepalife Dollar Bond Fund Corp. | $1.4184 | 1.56% | 16.24% | 5.77% | 3.04% |
| Grepalife Fixed Income Fund Corp. | P1.4852 | 5.58% | 10.67% | 5.27% | 5.98% |
| MAA Privilege Dollar Fixed Income Fund, Inc. | $1.34269 | -1.07% | 6.97% | 2.6% | 4.42% |
| MAA Privilege Euro Fixed Income Fund, Inc. | €0.02786 | n.a. | n.a. | n.a. | -4.26% |
| PAMI Global Bond Fund, Inc. | $1.242 | 0.7% | 7.04% | n.a. | 4.93% |
| Philam Dollar Bond Fund, Inc. | $1.8611 | 0.04% | 14.15% | 5.94% | 2.65% |
| Philequity Dollar Income Fund Inc. | $0.0477642 | 2.28% | 8.31% | 7.68% | 3.84% |
| Sun Life Prosperity Dollar Abundance Fund * | $2.647 | 1.51% | 13% | 4.97% | 4.67% |
| ALFM Money Market Fund, Inc. * | 105.62 | 3.43% | n.a. | n.a. | 2.52% |
| ATR KimEng Money Market Fund, Inc. | 1.1087 | 0.95% | 0.95% | -1% | 0.61% |
| First Metro Save & Learn Money Market Fund | 1.0426 | 1.96% | n.a. | n.a. | 1.39% |
| Philam Managed Income Fund, Inc. | 1.112 | 0.89% | 1.56% | 1.71% | 0.59% |
| Sun Life Prosperity Money Market Fund, Inc. * | 1.1259 | 0.35% | 0.95% | 1.42% | 0.28% |
* - NAVPS as of the previous banking day ** - NAVPS as of 2 banking days ago Source: Investment Company Association of the Philippines (ICAP); | |||||
| Lotto Game | Combinations | Draw Date | Jackpot | Winners |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Megalotto 6/45 | 33-08-41-22-09-34 | 10/31/2011 | 10,237,062.60 | 0 |
| 4D Luzon | 4-3-9-1 | 10/31/2011 | 78,700.00 | 7 |
| 4D Vismin | 4-3-9-1 | 10/31/2011 | 127,938.00 | 2 |
| Swertres Lotto 11AM | 6-4-1 | 10/31/2011 | 4,500.00 | 217 |
| Swertres Lotto 4PM | 5-2-3 | 10/31/2011 | 4,500.00 | 745 |
| Swertres Lotto 9PM | 7-4-4 | 10/31/2011 | 4,500.00 | 414 |
| EZ2 Lotto Luzon 9PM | 10-24 | 10/31/2011 | 4,000.00 | 540 |
| EZ2 Lotto Vismin 9PM | 10-24 | 10/31/2011 | 4,000.00 | 66 |
| EZ2 Lotto 11AM | 01-28 | 10/31/2011 | 4,000.00 | 99 |
| EZ2 Lotto 4PM | 09-24 | 10/31/2011 | 4,000.00 | 184 |
| Grand Lotto | 55-34-45-22-31-33 | 10/31/2011 | 59,503,222.80 | 0 |
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