Ramil Comendador (Source: Inquirer.net)
Ramil Comendador, a 35-year-old husband and father of two who worked as a janitor and then legal researcher at the Commission on Elections (Comelec), said he could not believe how lucky he was to pass the 2016 bar examination, reports Inquirer.net.
Three of five Filipinos are distrustful of China and Russia while 80 percent trust the United Nations, the latest Pulse Asia survey showed. The nationwide poll was taken from March 15 to 20 with 1,200 adult respondents, reports Inquirer.net.
Staff. Sgt. Joana Chris Arpon
Staff. Sgt. Joana Chris Arpon isn’t Israeli, or even Jewish. Her service in the Israel Defense Forces is personal. Arpon, 20, the daughter of Filipino parents who came to Israel to find work, said she enlisted as a combat soldier because an Israeli army team rescued her grandmother in the aftermath of the 2013 typhoon that devastated [Leyte towns in the Philippines], reports the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Florence Ebersole Smith Finch
Florence Ebersole Smith Finch was held captive by the Japanese during World War II, tortured and forced to curl up in a 2-foot-by-4-foot box, after she was caught steering supplies to Filipino guerrillas and American POWs. Finch, a U.S. Coast Guard veteran was buried Saturday with full military honors. She died Dec. 8 at age 101, reports Yahoo News.
Nick Joaquin
In time for the centenary of National Artist for Literature Nick Joaquin’s birthday, his short story collection, “The Woman Who Had Two Navels and Tales of the Tropical Gothic," was included in the “Ten books to read in April” list of British Broadcasting Company (BBC). The book was also positively reviewed by US public radio station, NPR, reports Philstar.
The I.C.C. should promptly open a preliminary investigation into the killings, urged The New York Times in an editorial, after a Filipino lawyer formally asked the International Criminal Courtto charge President Rodrigo Duterte and 11 officials with mass murder and crimes against humanity over the extrajudicial killings of thousands of people in the Philippines over the past three decades.
Isuzu Motors will roll out its "modern" version of the most popular means of public transportation in the Philippines--the jeepney, reports Entrepreneur Philppines.
Rappler ranks the 10 ASEAN nations on 8 different categories (traffic, corruption, crime, etc.), to see how they compare to one another. The Philippines ranked worst in poverty (with Myanmar) and best in women's rights and cost of living.
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