A stricter “No Smoking” policy in public places will be implemented in Metro Manila starting Monday and the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) will see to it that it will be imposed.

After a series of boo-boo’s from the previous fights of Manny Pacquiao, the National Historical Institute (NHI) finally gave a thumbs up to the rendition of the Philippine National Anthem.
International singing sensation Charice Pempengco sang Lupang Hinirang before Pacquiao’s fight with Shane Mosley in Las Vegas, Nevada last May 8. Charice was personally picked by [...]

Trainer Freddie Roach declared that his prized fighter Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao could very well be the first boxer to knockout former five-time world champ “Sugar” Shane Mosley on their May 7 fight at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas.
Roach said that Pacquiao is in tip-top shape and said he is 100 percent ready for [...]

Vice President Jejomar Binay was tasked to make a decision whether or not the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos will be allowed to be buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani. The vice president said he hopes to submit by next month recommendation on the proposal to bury the former president at the Philippines’ national heroes’ [...]

The Department of Education (DepEd) issued a memorandum laying the school calendar for this year, including the opening date of school year 2011-2012 which will be on June 6.
Secretary Armin Luistro of DepEd said the total number of school days would 202, and the last day of the school year falls on March 30, 2012. [...]

Last Good Friday, there were a total of 27 penitents who were nailed to the cross in Pampanga and Bulacan, 22 were crucified in Barangays San Juan, Sta. Lucia and San Pedro Cutud in City of San Fernando, Pampanga, and five in Barangay Kapitangan in Paombong, Bulacan, which include two women.
The nailing began at 9 [...]

Xoom.com, a money online transfer company, tied up with DIRECTV to for a special offer to Xoom customers to watch the Manny Pacquiao “Pacman” Pacquiao versus Sugar Shane Mosley fight for free on DIRECTV Pay-Per-View (PPV).
The company is excited to bring this opportunity for the first time. It will be available to new Xoom customers [...]

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has recently beefed up its Visita Iglesia Online website to accommodate more visitors and to prevent what happened last year when the site crashed because it received more than 43,000 online visitors. This year, the CBCP said they expected the number of visitors to double.
Unfortunately, in spite [...]

For all Filipinos heading to the provinces this Holy Week, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority has made available on its website the rescue hotline numbers of different cities and municipalities, as well as mobile numbers of its officials.

To cheer up the soldiers and help them get their mind off the corruption scandal involving former top military officials, a group of celebrity singers will perform in various military camps.
Led by the current president of the Organisasyon ng Pilipinong Mang-aawit (OPM) Olgie Alcasid, the group composed of Vice-president Noel Cabangon, Cookie Chua and Mitch [...]

Last year the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) launched the Visita Iglesia Online to offer a virtual Holy Week experience, particularly to Filipinos overseas and devout Catholics who are physically incapable of leaving their homes. It was merely an experiment and not as a serious endeavor as it only featured seven churches.
This year, [...]

Possibly fearing that theirs could go the way of Jan-Jan’s case and escalate into another media frenzy, McDonald’s Philippines immediately pulled out its add which was tagged by some as the “BF-GF commercial” after the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) called for them to stop airing the ad.

A 24-year old beauty and brain lady who hails from General Santos City was crowned Binibining Pilipinas-Universe 2011. Shamcey Supsup, a magna cum laude graduate from UP Diliman who finished B.S. Architecture and June 2010 Architecture Licensure Exam board topnotcher, bested 39 other candidates for the right to represent the country in the upcoming Miss [...]

Trans-Asia Oil and Energy Development Corp., a publicly listed firm, recently signed a contract with SEM-Calaca Power Corp. for the purchase of Trans-Asia of power generated from the Consunji-led Calaca Power Corp. Trans-Asia, in its disclosure submitted to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) said it signed on Wednesday the contract “to purchase generated energy,” which [...]

SkyCable allotted P1.5 billion funds for its capital expenditure for 2011 for its Cable Television (CATV) business. Half of the said amount will be used for the roll-out of its digital TV service nationwide and the other half for boosting its broadband subscriber growth, according to company marketing head Rodrigo Montinola.
A subsidiary of network giant [...]

Kalibo, Aklan is all set for the celebration of the Ati-atihan Festival. Observed in the third week of January, Ati-atihan is considered as the mother of all Philippine festivals and fiestas, and this year, the town is all set for a weeklong spectacular show next until its culmination on January 16.
Mayor William S. Lachica of [...]

After a long while, the PBA team owners will finally meet again on January 25 to discuss some major concerns hounding the Philippine’s premiere basketball league, among those matters to be discuss is the next television station that’ll be granted the rights to televise the games. Likewise, the board will also tackle the league’s participation [...]

And now, here is something that could irk Floyd Mayweather Jr. even more. He has just been dethroned and now must settle at the second place among the world’s best 147-pound fighters. Being lifted at the top stop, the number one, is no other than the New World Boxing Council (WBC) super welterweight champion Manny [...]

The boracay is one of the finest travel destination here in the philippines. But now it can turn into a not so good destination because some of the tourist that are going there are not caring about its environment so it is going to be destroyed little by little.
But some private corporation and non-government organization [...]

The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is intensifying their Japanese language training for those wishing to work in Japan. This is part of their initiative to provide more jobs for Filipino nurses there. According to labor secretary Rosalinda Baldoz, there are very few Filipino nurses who are being hired in Japan because of their [...]