PRESS FREEDOM SHRINE. Journalists from Metro Manila and other parts of Luzon marked World Press Freedom Day today, May 3, at the shrine of Marcelo del Pilar, the national hero and revolutionary propagandist, in Bulacan. They also said a prayer for the Filipino journalists murdered over the years.
Click here for more photos. (Photo by Carlos Conde/pinoypress.net)
THEY'RE EVERYWHERE This map illustrates the different ways and forms by which the United States has established its military basing in the Philippines. It shows the locations of the increasing number of military exercises the US has been holding year-round in venues throughout the country since 2001. It also charts the growing number of ports that US warships have been visiting.
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SHAMED AND HUMILIATED. The staff at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in Cebu humiliated a gay man who underwent a rectal procedure. But the hospital refused to name those responsible for the shameful act. Because of this, a PinoyPress blogger has launched a contest: whoever can provide the names of the doctors and staff involved will get one year free web-hosting.
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SUNDAY MARKET AT THE LUNG CENTER. One of the best weekend markets can be found inside the Lung Center of the Philippines compound in Quezon City. In
these series of pictures, PinoyPress shows just how a trip to this favorite Sunday destination is worth it.
(PinoyPress photos by Carlos Conde and Ayi Muallam)
FACE OFF. Korina Sanchez interviews DJ Montano, the man at the center of the blog by Australian Brian Gorrell, who accused Montato of scamming him of his life savings worth $70,000. Montano vehemently denied the allegation but many felt his surfacing failed to answer many questions.
Click here to find out the 15 questions Sanchez should have asked Montano. (ANC photograb)
LITTLE DIVA GOES ON 'OPRAH.' Charice Pempengco, the Filipino child-diva, has been wowing audiences around the world ever since she guested on the Ellen Degeneres show. Next month, she will be guesting on "Oprah" in an episode on child prodigies. More details and video
here. (Photo courtesy of www.charicepempengco.com)
SUNSET OVER SAMAL. Sunset as seen from Hof Gorei resort in barangay Malipano, Samal Island, Davao del Norte.
Photo by Keith Bacongco / AKP Images
'CORRUPTIONARY'. The Center for People Empowerment in Governance launched on Monday a book called "Corruptionary," a dictionary of terms and language used in corrupt activities in the Philippines. Rodolfo "Jun" Lozada, the ZTE-NBN scandal whistleblower (center), was one of the guests at the launch. The book is initially available at Popular Bookstore in Quezon City.
Photo courtesy of CenPEG
TAMED EDITION. The Church and some "guardians of public morals" are up in arms over the Philippine edition of Playboy magazine, whose first issue came out this week. But they have been largely silent on the existing sex magazines that are way raunchier than Playboy, such as Playhouse magazine (right) published by Atlas Publishing, the
komiks giant.
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BARDEM FESTIVAL. The films of Javier Bardem, the Spanish actor who won this year's best supporting actor Oscar for "No Country for Old Men," will be screened this month by the Instituto Cervantes. Bardem is shown in the picture with Belén Rueda in "Mar Adentro (The Sea Inside)," in which he plays Ramón Sampedro, a paraplegic who fights for the right to die.
Click here for the screening schedule.
MONEY FROM JUNK. Workers separate iron and aluminum from a car engine at a junk shop in Matina Aplaya, Davao City. Scrap aluminum is more expensive than iron. Due to extreme poverty, many Filipinos have resorted to salvaging junk in order to earn some income.
(Photo by Keith Bacongco / AKP Images)
STILL MISSING. Yesterday, March 28, was the 31st wedding anniversary of Maria Luisa Posa-Dominador and her husband. A former political prisoner during the Marcos dictatorship, Maria Luisa was abducted almost a year ago and remains missing, just one among the hundreds of Filipinos who
disappeared under the Arroyo regime.
(Photo courtesy of arkibongbayan.org)
TAKEN. As the nation paused to commemorate and reflect on the Passion of Christ this Lenten season, Jimmy and Clarita Soledad were forcibly taken by unidentified men in Bacoor, Cavite, on March 20. They remain missing, just the latest in the string of enforced disappearances in the Philippines.
Read the story. (Photo courtesy of arkibongbayan.org)
SANCTUARY. The Baras Bird Sanctuary in Tacurong City is home to some 20,000 black-crowned night herons and cattle egrets. The herons, one of them is pictured above, leave the sanctuary at sundown to hunt for food in the nearby Buluan Lake, Lake Sebu, Liguasan Marsh, and even as far away as the coastal town of Lebak.
(Photo by Ruby More / AKP Images)
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