by magnolia_eic | Feb 19, 2010 | Election 2010, Headlines, National News
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) said that the issue with the telecommunications companies regarding the setting up of data centers has been resolved.
Comelec adviser Renato Garcia said that the Philippine Long Distance Company (PLDT) and Globe Telecoms have agreed to create two data centers for the May 10 national and local elections.
He added that they are now talking with the companies on the installation of the facilities, adding that no contract has been signed yet.
The data banks will not be located in the companies’ main data buildings. For security reasons, Garcia did not disclose where the data centers will be located. He explained that it is the data banks that will have the copies of the election tallies. Globe and PLDT has refused to allow the use of their facilities in Metro Manila, for fear of technical and security attacks on their system. (PIA-Bohol)
by magnolia_eic | Feb 19, 2010 | Headlines, National News
The remains of a Filipina worker who died in the magnitude-7 quake in Haiti last January 12 will arrive in the Philippines Friday morning (Manila time), according to the Philippine Embassy in Cuba.
Philippine Vice-Consul to Cuba Jason Anasarias said the remains of Mary Grace Fabian were shipped to Manila from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Tuesday after clearing all Dominican documentary requirements.
Fabian’s remains were pulled out of the collapsed Carribean Supermarket at 11 a.m. of February 7 in Haiti, or midnight of Feb. 7 in Manila.
She was positively identified by Mr. Lowel Lalican, the husband of Geraldine Lalican, another OFW still trapped under the rubble of the supermarket. Ms. Fabian, an employee of the Carribbean Supermarket, was identified through her uniform, hair and necklace.
Upon the instructions of her sister Rosalyn Fabian, who is based in Haiti, the remains of Mary Grace Fabian was initially interred at the National Cemetary in Port-au-Prince. But her family in the Philippines requested the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to have her remains repatriated.
The DFA coordinated with Overseas Workers Welfare Administration and Fabian’s family so her remains can be brought home to her family soonest. (PIA-Bohol)
by magnolia_eic | Feb 18, 2010 | Headlines, World
Seoul– A 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck off North Korea’s border with China and Russia Thursday. There were no immediate reports of damage and no tsunami warning was issued.
According to the US Geological Survey, the quake struck at 10:13 a.m. (0113 GMT), 111 km northeast of Chongjin at a depth of 562 kilometers.
The quake did not generate a destructive tsunami.
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by magnolia_eic | Feb 18, 2010 | Headlines, National News
Manila, Philippines — Farmlands, reservoirs and waterways in the country are already drying up due to the intense heat brought by the El Nino phenomenon. Farmers are keeping a closer watch over their fields so whatever available water is used wisely.
Huge clumps of light-brown soil have appeared in the corn fields of Cagayan Valley and Pangasinan, while rice paddies have turned barren in Isabela, Bulacan, Pangasinan, Ilocos Norte, Camarines Sur, Negros, Davao del Sur and other provinces.
Some farmers have stopped planting to cut losses.
Isabela, Cagayan and other provinces, as well as in the corn-producing town of Sto. Tomas in Pangasinan and Cauayan City and Ilagan town in Isabela, have been placed under states of calamity to allow local governments to use public funds to help the distressed farmers.
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by magnolia_eic | Feb 17, 2010 | Headlines, National News
Manila, Philippines — Road rage suspect Jason Ivler pleaded “not guilty” during his arraignment before Judge Alexander Balut of the Quezon City regional trial court Branch 76.
Ivler, dressed in a white barong and a pair of black pants, lay in a hospital stretcher with both wrists cuffed to its frame during the proceedings.
He was surrounded by five NBI agents and accompanied by his mother, Marlene Aguilar and stepfather, Stephen Pollard.
The judge ordered that Ivler be returned to the hospital for full recovery before he can be transferred to the Quezon City Jail.
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