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Manny, Leni, Ping, Isko Won't Attend Quiboloy-Sponsored Presidential Debate
Among the presidential bets who are not attending the debate sponsored by Pastor Apollo Quiboloy, it’s only Sen. Manny Pacquiao who cited the cases that the spiritual is facing in the United States as part of his reasons for declining the invitation. Four presidential candidates have said no to a debate sponsored by pastor Apollo Quiboloy scheduled for broadcast today, Feb. 15. Sen. Manny Pacquiao said on Monday, Feb. 14, he would not join the debate owing to charges of child abuse that the pastor is facing in the United States. Pacquiao said he “cannot, in good conscience, be part of any activity organized by a man wanted for detestable crimes and who unconscionably used the name of the Lord in vain for religious scams.” The...
SEGA exits arcade business after 56 years
After more than 50 years, SEGA has pulled out of the Japanese arcade business. SEGA Entertainment’s remaining arcades will be sold to arcade company Genda Inc. which operates locations under the GiGo brand, as reported by Nintendo Life. The rebranding of GiGO is an acronym for “Get into the Gaming Oasis” Since the Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company’s first arcade game Periscope was launched in the late 1960s, SEGA has been a major player in the arcade industry. SEGA’s arcade classic hits include The House of the Dead, OutRun, Virtua Fighter, Virtua Racing, and countless others. SEGA first signalled the move back in 2020 during the first year of the pandemic, a poor year for the arcade industry in terms of...
Impossibility for VP Leni Robredo to catch up with Bongbong Marcos
Data analytics firm SPLAT Communications says latest survey results (SWS, Pulse Asia, Kalye etc) show statistical impossibility for VP Leni Robredo to catch up with Bongbong Marcos' numbers with less than 3 months left before the May 9 polls =AZWo47NCo1rjkBSBj-LoAXR6-Pl_eXnceJguw63TRqekjIehz9MHdzM-i3EGySEI93SUukolrgBtUBcMW52WcNxOI0jAItygnyuPDo2KUMmPC5ylYuGcqoM_WSyKZ__cbyV4ZfT8ZXxWMSNo-hWEV_xekirosKg7ASg8Vdirh-T8sMcDbLa3p2oKQk9ja-hurOdRfFoWGwq5o8r3aC3zdbu9&tn=*NK*F']#BilangPilipino2022 | via Edu Punay source:
If elected VP, Sara Duterte will push for mandatory military service for all Filipinos
MANILA, Philippines — Davao City Mayor Inday Sara Duterte-Carpio said on Wednesday that, if elected vice president, she would push for mandatory military service for all Filipinos reaching the age of 18 — male or female. She said she would use the Office of the Vice President to urge the House of Representatives and the Senate of the Philippines to pass such legislation. “We see this in other countries like South Korea and Israel. It should not just be like ROTC [Reserved Officers’ Training Corp’ where it’s just one subject or one weekend or a month in a year,” Duterte-Carpio, said, speaking in a mix of English and Filipino during the Manila Virtual Caravan. “Everyone, once your turn 18, once you reach 18 years old, you will be given...
Filipinos spend the most time online and on social media at almost 11 hours per daystudy
How many hours a day do you spend online? A recent study from Brussels-based marketing and advertising consultant Sortlist found that Filipinos are spending nearly half the year online with more than a third of it on social media platforms. The data showed Pinoys are connected to the internet for 10 hours and 56 minutes a day, which in turn, totals to 166 days a year. Of that time, four hours and 15 minutes a day are spent on social media, which equates to 65 days a year. © Provided by PhilSTAR Life Sortlist The most used app is YouTube with users clocking in 11 days and 14 hours a year, with Facebook (nine days and 18 hours a year), and Whatsapp (nine days and 17 hours per a year). TikTok is in the fifth position with users spending...
El Shaddai leader endorses BBM-Sara
DAVAO CITY – Vice presidential aspirant Mayor Sara Z. Duterte thanked the leader of religious group El Shaddai for endorsing her vice-presidential candidacy and the Uniteam’s presidential aspirant Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. on Saturday. Brother Mike Velarde, El Shaddai leader, announced the endorsement after the BBM-Sara UniTeam attended an event at its International House of Prayer in Amvel, Parañaque City on Feb. 12. “Your support for my candidacy is strong and a big help in my aspirations and advocacies should I will be given a chance to win along with our presidential candidate Apo Bongbong,” Duterte said in a statement. https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1167641
Minor scammed by dugo-dugo' gang out of P9.5-million worth of parents' cash, jewelry
About P8 million worth of jewelry and P1.5 in million cash were stolen after a 14-year-old was victimized by a “dugo-dugo” gang. In Mav Gonzales' report on 24 Oras Weekend on Sunday, the father of the victim said that the child received a phone call saying that her mother had been in an accident. “The person told her that her mother had hit a child so she badly needs money to help that child, and that the police had arrested her mother,” he said in Filipino. The suspect then told the victim to bring her parents’ money and jewelry to Monumento in Caloocan City. She instructed the child not to answer any calls, saying that her mother’s phone had been confiscated by the police. “Somebody also called identifying themselves as the...
Quiboloy, two others now wanted by FBI
FBI for thumbnail - FBI wanted poster - Apollo Quiboloy Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KJC) founder and pastor Apollo Carreon Quiboloy and two other church members are now wanted by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The FBI issued "Wanted" posters for Quiboloy, Teresita Tolibas Dandan, and Helen Panilag on Friday. Quiboloy is "wanted for his alleged participation in a labor trafficking scheme that brought church members to the United States, via fraudulently obtained visas, and forced the members to solicit donations for a bogus charity, donations that actually were used to finance church operations and the lavish lifestyles of its leaders," the FBI said. "Members who proved successful at soliciting for the church allegedly...
Singapore firm to build largest Philippine data center
An artist’s rendition of MNL1 data center (Contributed photo) MANILA, Philippines — The country’s largest data center is set to rise in Cainta, Rizal, within the year, catering to a “dramatically underserved” segment, according to Singapore data center company SpaceDC, which is investing more than $700 million into this facility. In a recent statement, the company said the hyperscale data center campus, dubbed MNL1, would cover an area of 4.3 hectares. It will have a capacity of 72 megawatts, which SpaceDC said would be fully powered by renewable energy sources such as wind and geothermal energy. Data centers, power-intensive facilities that operate nonstop, provide crucial data storage and IT services to businesses. “The...
Sabi, if people remain unvaccinated, marami pang lalabas na variant
Nakita ko sa youtube, title lang, sabi, if people remain unvaccinated, mas marami pa daw lalabas na variant. Totoo ba? Hindi ko alam kung saan nanggagaling ang variant except ang isa na nag explain na nanggaling ang isang variant sa africa. Pagkatapos ang sabi ng bessie ko, nagkakaroon raw kase ang mix virus ng unvacciated at vaccinated people kaya nagiging result ito as variant. So sa isip-isip ko, kung nagkaganun pala, ang ibig sabihin, nanggaling sa unvaccinated people pala ang variant and I was thinking na what is the reason why ayaw mag vaccinated ang ibang tao? If sakaling totoo nga or sadyang hindi lang sila naniniwala? Iyon ba ang reason why meron ako tsismiss na naririnig na keyso gusto e mandatory ang vaccine dahil sa ang...
The need to cure our vaccine obsession
By: Rafael Castillo-M.D. Philippine Daily Inquirer / 09:20 AM February 12, 2022 15 jets crashing every week What could have caused so many Filipinos to die, roughly equivalent to 465 fully loaded Boeing 747 jumbo jets crashing? That’s like 15 of these giant jets crashing every week, or more than two every day for that period. That should have caught some attention, but there seems to be no explanation, or even just an announcement that our health officials are well aware of it but found it to be of no importance. If you ask the head of the CDC PH research panel, who requests to remain anonymous for security reasons, the mass vaccination rollout starting March 2021 sticks out like a sore thumb as a possible factor to consider in...
'Bored' museum guard ruins a pricey Russian painting by drawing eyes on it
Have you ever messed up on the first day of a new job? On his first day working for the Yeltsin Center in Russia, a "bored" museum guard at a Russian gallery ruined a pricey painting by drawing eyes on it. The security guard, who is in his 60s, drew two pairs of eyes with a ballpen on artist Anna Leporskaya's Three Figures after he became bored while on the job. The painting is an abstract work depicting three faceless people and was on loan from Moscow's State Tretyakov Gallery. © Provided by PhilSTAR Life The original Three Figures painting. Two visitors in December noticed the vandalism and told a gallery employee. © Provided by PhilSTAR Life The painting with drawn-on eyes. “[The guard's] motives are still unknown but the...
Sony To Acquire Game Developer Bungie For $3.6 Billion
© Reuters Sony To Acquire Game Developer Bungie For $3.6 Billion By Sam Boughedda Investing.com — Sony Group Corp's (NYSE:SONY) subsidiary, Sony Interactive Entertainment, announced Monday that it has agreed on a deal to acquire Bungie, Inc, an independent videogame developer. Bungie is a long-time partner of Sony Interactive Entertainment and has created franchises, such as Halo and Destiny. Sony said the $3.6 billion deal will give it access to Bungie's expertise in live game services and technology. Bungie will continue to operate independently. Bungie is currently focused on the long-term development of the Destiny 2 game, stating they are "expanding the Destiny universe, and creating entirely new worlds in future IP." Jim...
Comelec 1st division dismisses DQ cases vs. Marcos
MANILA – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) First Division voted 2-0 to dismiss the consolidated disqualification cases against presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. for lack of merit. “The consolidated petitions of Ilagan v. Marcos Jr., Akbayan v. Marcos Jr., and Mangelen v. Marcos Jr. have been dismissed for lack of merit, by the COMELEC's 1st Division,” Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez announced in a tweet on Thursday. Commissioner Aimee Ferolino, the ponente in the petitions, and Commissioner Marlon Casquejo are members of the Comelec’s First Division. “Contrary to Petitioners' assertion, the penalty of perpetual disqualification by reason of failure to file income tax returns was not provided for under the...

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