FALLEN LEADER. Police check the dead body of Celso Pojas, a peasant leader murdered in Davao City this morning. He was the first activist killed in Davao City, according to Karapatan, and the 14th activist killed in the Philippines this year. Human rights groups here and abroad have denounced the Arroyo regime for the killings.
Click here for the story. (Photo courtesy of FADC-KMP)
COMPOSTELA’S BIG GUN. Compostela Governor Arturo “Chiongkee” Uy poses to the media while holding a high-powered rifle owned by the New People’s Army during the release on May 6 of two soldiers held captive as "prisoners of war" by the guerrillas. The NPA released the soldiers to Uy in Compostela town.
Click here for the story. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)
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.
Click here for details.
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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.
Read the story.
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)
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April 11th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
i can’t wait to watch that!!.. Go charice!! MAKE US PROUD!!!..^^
April 12th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Yes, Charice, you make us proud. You are a great “diversion from what the bad news we hear and read about the Phils recently. My fellow countrymen here in the US and Phils, let’s support our very own. Can’t wait to see her guesting on OPRAH and can’t wait to see her have a concert in Houston.
April 12th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Yes, Charice, you make us proud. You are a great “diversion from what the bad news we hear and read about the Phils recently. My fellow countrymen here in the US and Phils, let’s support our very own. Can’t wait to see her guesting on OPRAH and can’t wait to see her have a concert in Houston.
April 13th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Charice? she will not go places. She do not have the commercial look. Her voice is “common” among the present ‘diva’ and she has nothing new to offer.
Come on let us not pat our shoulder that her success will be filipino’s pride.
Whatever she will come to with is her own, like pacquiao did. let us not fool ourself.
I, however, wish that she make it good.
April 14th, 2008 at 10:54 am
C’mon my fellow Pinoys…let’s not judge a person on looks. If Charice is chosen by the big shows here in the US….she then must be “excellent”. I have lived here in the US over 18 years…and I can say this girl from Lagunae have a real talent…and I am proud of her. Let us all support her. She got an extraordinary voice…..She is quite popular here in the US. Give her the chance and support and she’ll bring the name of the Phils all over the world. Proud to be a Filipino.
April 15th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
eh jomar, if you have only negatve things to say about this talented girl, don’t even bother to view her sites.
April 15th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
wow…hindi nakakpag taka na e guest sya.i mean only filipino kids can do the same as what charice do…mga foreiger kids hindi nila kaya yan…live ba mapapanuod yan?or kailan ang date ng airing ng guesting nya?can someone tell me?tnx
April 15th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
yeah! let us not judge her..its too early you dont know what is happen in the future of her carrer..lets give her a support..if the other country is there to support her.. how much more we, as her fellow filipino..for the info.. david foster is behind her carrer.thats why she got some guesting in the US..aside from her lawyer ed shapiro which is the lawyer also of ellen degeneres.and ellen d. invite her again for second guesting no specific date as of now. btw,her album is coming out soon..keep on supporting. visit charicediva.com too for more info about charice.
April 16th, 2008 at 4:05 am
hey jomar, please learn to speak english well first before u say any discouraging words about charice.. lol!
April 16th, 2008 at 4:07 am
peole like this bloody jomar must not be given a small space to even say such thing about our young talents…pathetic, cz we get a lot of bad news lately and this moron has nothing god to say.. shut the hell up!!!
April 20th, 2008 at 12:30 am
i think jomar is from GMA7 who dislikes ABS-CBN talents like charice.. THis is not a TV station war anymore jomar.. charice already representing the country to show the world that our country has something good to offer - worldclass..
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:31 pm
WHO WOULDN’T BE PROUD OF CHARICE! Phenomenal Charice!!
April 25th, 2008 at 1:37 am
Charice is indeed a Filipino pride! She has the guts, the confidence, the cute unique filipino look and most of all - the Talent!
May 13th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
i think this little talent has a lot to offer. i am definitely proud of her being a filipino. and i wouldn’t be suprised if she goes far. not everyone is given the chance to guest in Oprah and Ellen. at a very young age, she has accomplished a lot already with her career. So to Jomar, this is how you write in English okay…
May 14th, 2008 at 8:20 am
She is really great! Hands down ako sa talent ni Charice. She will definitely go places and stay in the business for long. We need more Charice, Pacquio, Lea Salonga, Natori and lately Ms. Kris Aquino, among many others in various fields and endeavors to cheer us up and prove to the whole world that given a chance, we Filipinos can be at far with the best anywhere in the world. Pang WORLD CLASS talaga ang PINOY!
May 15th, 2008 at 10:21 am
kaya mo yan charice!!!