Pinoy art for charity (Gulf Daily News)

15 August 2008, 3:09 pm

BAHRAIN and Saudi-based Filipinos will showcase their talents at a charity art exhibition and workshop to be held at the Mšvenpick Hotel's Al Murjan Ballroom, Muharraq this month.... read more

Making pneumo shot a rule rather than an exception (Philippine Daily Inquirer)

15 August 2008, 2:23 pm

MANILA, Philippines—Very soon, a number of private hospitals around the country will begin requiring their elderly as well as their other high-risk in-patients to get a pneumococcal shot before they are allowed to go home.... read more

New anti-human trafficking campaign to be launched (Yehey!)

15 August 2008, 9:25 am

The fight against the rampant human trafficking in the Philippines will get a timely boost as the Visayan Forum Foundation, together with its partners, will launch the War Against Human Trafficking campaign on August 19.... read more

Mindanao governors back MOA (Philippine Daily Inquirer)

15 August 2008, 8:57 am

MANILA, Philippines—Governors of Mindanao announced on Friday they “strongly support” the government’s Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front “if only to bring long-lasting peace in Mindanao.”... read more

NEWLY-FORMED BEACH SOCCER - 2 (Bernama via Yahoo! Malaysia News)

15 August 2008, 3:22 am

Meanwhile, tournament organising committee chairman Hardev Pannu said the event had attracted national teams from Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Laos, Philippines, Brunei, Timor Leste and Oman.... read more

Arroyo defender says now is not the time for "Cha-cha" (GMA News)

15 August 2008, 1:43 am

MANILA, Philippines - An administration congressman on Friday vouched for President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo"s intentions in pushing for a constitutional amendment, but said now is not the right time for such an exercise.... read more