4 September 2010, 5:21 am
Scientists have long thought that social networks, which features many distant connections, or "long ties," produces large-scale changes most quickly. But in a new study, Damon Centola, an assistant professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, has reached a different conclusion: Individuals ar... Read More »
4 September 2010, 5:16 am
MANILA, Philippines A total of 3,390 people who were only carrying tourist visas were prevented by immigration officials from leaving the country in August as part of the government's campaign against human trafficking. Bureau of Immigration (BI) Officer-in-Charge Ronaldo Ledesma said on Friday that... Read More »
4 September 2010, 5:11 am
The former president of Home Development Mutual Fund will help in the investigation to be conducted by Congress on the alleged bogus housing loans of the agency. Former HDMF president and Chief Executive Officer Romero Quimbo, incumbent congressman of Marikina's second district, plans to author a bi... Read More »
4 September 2010, 5:02 am
MANILA, Philippines The Department of Foreign Affairs on Saturday reported that no Filipino was hurt in the strong quake that hit New Zealand.... Read More »
3 September 2010, 9:38 pm
MANILA, Philippines- A fastfood chain was engulfed in a thick smoke after one of its air conditioning units caught fire Saturday morning in Quezon City.... Read More »
3 September 2010, 7:38 pm
With the Hari Raya Aidilfitri celebration just around the corner, nine personnel of Royal Brunei Armed Forces who have successfully completed their one year mission in the sixth International Monitoring Team overseeing ceasefire agreement between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Libera... Read More »
3 September 2010, 3:28 pm
MANILA, Philippines Shoes have been around for so long that nobody can say how the first ever produced pair looked like.... Read More »
3 September 2010, 11:24 am
The news of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 left me confounded. I never once thought that a typhoon that dumped more rains than Katrina did on New Orleans would hit Manila, Philippines, much less my own home.... Read More »
3 September 2010, 10:29 am
September 3, 2010 - President Noynoy Aquino has declared September 10, Friday, a regular holiday in the country in observance of Eid'l Fitr, the end of the holy month of Ramadan.... Read More »
3 September 2010, 8:18 am
Nearly 50,000 people are still crammed in 29 evacuation centres in the eastern Philippine province of Albay after scientists raised the alert level of the Mayon volcano from three to four on a five-step alert system on 20 December.... Read More »