Manila Informer

Amid reports of violence Govt claims voting 'generally peaceful' The Armed Forces and the National Police on Monday described this year's elections as “generally peaceful,” but six people were killed and six others were hurt and there were reports of power failure, vote-counting machines failing, violence, brawls, … Full News here – Read more on [...]

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MANILA, Philippines–The Philippine Stock Exchange’s first quarter net profit rose by 27.8 percent year-on-year to P184.81 million as the robust stock market boosted its trading, listing and other fee-based earnings. Operating revenues went up by 18.14 percent to P263.41 million from a year ago. Trading-related income, inclusive of the amount ceded to Capital Market Integrity [...]

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CEBU CITY—A veteran politician who served Cebu in various positions dating back to the Marcos era suffered his first electoral defeat in his decades-old political career.   Outgoing Rep. Eduardo Gullas of Cebu’s 1st district (Nacionalista/Alayon party) lost the mayoral race in Talisay City to  Johnny delos Reyes (Liberal Party).   Delos Reyes, who owns [...]

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(UPDATED 10:00 a.m.) -  Former Philipine President Joseph Ejercito Estrada is set to be officially proclaimed as the new mayor of Manila as he leads incumbent Mayor Alfredo Lim by roughly 30,000 votes as of Tuesday morning. Full News here – GMA News Online / News / Metro Manila Get up to 75% discount in Manila [...]

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With garbage and campaign materials still littering areas near polling areas in Metro Manila, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority is heading a post-election cleanup drive starting Wednesday. Full News here – GMA News Online / News / Metro Manila Get up to 75% discount in Manila hotels!

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SAN PEDRO, Laguna, Philippines—Lourdes Cataquiz, wife of embattled Mayor Calixto Cataquiz, was proclaimed winner in the mayoral race here.   This came amid a last-minute substitution of the wife to Calixto, who was disqualified by Commission on Elections (Comelec) a few days before Monday’s polls.   The disqualification order was based on the 2011 graft [...]

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Interim period After much speculation and, in some cases, evocation of worst-case scenarios, most of the precinct-count optical scan machines did function. Power outages, if any, were few, short, and isolated. Because of machine-assisted voting, counting and … Full News here – Read more on Manila Standard Today Get up to 75% discount in Manila [...]

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MANILA, Philippines—Gringo Honasan maintained a lead by nearly 390,000 votes over Dick Gordon in the battle for 12th place in the senatorial race, as Grace Poe remained at the top spot, according to the partial and unofficial tally by an election watchdog on Tuesday morning.   Based on the vote count update at 7:41 a.m. [...]

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The San Juan City Board of Canvassers proclaimed incumbent Mayor Guia Gomez as the winner of the 2013 mayoralty race. Full News here – GMA News Online / News / Metro Manila Get up to 75% discount in Manila hotels!

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VATICAN CITY—The number of Catholic priests and believers in the world is on the rise, a Vatican report showed on Monday, with gains in Africa and Asia offsetting a slump in Europe and the Americas.   The world’s Catholics rose from 1.196 billion to 1.214 billion between 2010 and 2011, an increase of 1.5 percent, [...]

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TOMS RIVER, New Jersey — A former yeshiva teacher changed pleas Monday on the third day of his trial and admitted he sexually assaulted a 12-year-old boy he had met while working as a camp counselor.   Rabbi Yosef Kolko, 36, shifted uncomfortably on the stand in state court as he pleaded guilty to aggravated [...]

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LEGAZPI CITY – Only one member of the fragmented by still influential Villafuerte clan of Camarines Sur made it in Monday’s elections, and the youngest at that, traunching his own grandfather in the province’s gubernatorial race.   The rest of the Villafuerte clan were defeated by the widow of the late Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo [...]

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Pagara in fight of his life The 24-year-old Pagara, who has a record of 30-2 with 19 knockouts, has beaten some tough opponents, but the reports out of Mexico and the Manila Standard showed that the lanky fighter has power, which accounts for his 17 knockouts in 25 wins with only … Full News here [...]

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MANILA, Philippines—Reelectionist Quezon City Mayor Herbert Bautista is headed for a landslide win in Quezon City, based on partial results from the counting of votes by the Commission on Elections as of 11:15 p.m. on Monday.   Bautista had 524,835 votes as of late Monday night, 10 times the votes of Johnny Chang who had [...]

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LEGAZPI CITY—Running unopposed, Gov. Joey Salceda (Liberal Party) still garnered a whooping 271,717 votes from the 371,690 who actually voted in Albay, according to election results in Albay posted at the website of the Commission on Elections (Comelec).   Congressmen seeking reelection also dominated the congressional races in the province, the Comelec official count showed. [...]

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