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REBISCO-Philippines gave Iran’s Sirjan Foulad fits in the second set before getting a reality check in the third set to yield, 15-25, 22-25, 5-25, in the Asian Men’s Club Volleyball Championship on Friday at the Terminal 21 competition hall in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand. Back-to-back kills by Jao Umandal allowed the…

When Manila mayor Isko Moreno announced on September 22 that he was running for president next year, he went out of his way to stress one thing: he did not belong to a political family. Moreno, 46, a former actor whose real name is Francisco Domagoso, said: “I don’t belong to a large clan. I am neither son nor daughter...

Published July 26, 2021, 12:17 PM Speaker Lord Allan Velasco formally opened on Monday, July 26 the third and final regular session of the 18th Congress with a vow that the House of Representatives is ready to make “one last big push” for the passage of the remaining legislative priorities of the Duterte administration. House of Representatives facade “As we enter the final year of our present term in Congress, it is time for that one last big push,” Velasco declared in his opening rema...

Published May 18, 2021, 12:44 PM For Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr., the Philippines cannot afford to relax its campaign against illegal drugs like what Portugal did in 2001 due to the country’s proximity to China, the region’s “smuggling center of illegal drug exports.” Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. discusses the West Philippine Sea issue in a meeting with President Duterte and other Cabinet members in Davao City on May 10, 2021 (Malacañang) Locsin remembe...

Do we want to shrink our office space? | COVID-19 effect on Austin office spaces Did COVID-19 impact the amount of office spaces in the Austin area? KVUE investigates the future of work life in Austin and whats changed in the last 18 months. Author: Hank Cavagnaro Updated: 9:28 AM CDT May 5, 2021 AUSTIN, Texas — Boomtown is KVUEs initiative to track the explosive growth in Austin and the Central Texas region. As a part of KVUEs Boomtown coverage, we looked int...

SunStar + April 09, 2021 Stories of relatives of some of my Facebook friends dying had me recalling a past when dying was a regular occurrence. When every time you wake up at dawn in a bushy hill in the countryside, you thank God for keeping you safe and extending your life. Many of the deaths nowadays are swift. But there are also those who survived to tell us tales of survival. Despite the slow rollout of the vaccines and the obvious government incompetence, we have, sort of, see...

More than 43′ long and 5,000 years old, the top of the table made by The Fenland Black Oak Project is the culmination of more than 30 years of research, trial and error in milling and drying bog oak. Around 2012 I was building some cabinets into a sitting room off my clients’ kitchen when Paul, a member of the general contractor’s crew, struck up a conversation. “I just saw this amazing video about bog oak,” he said. “There’s this guy in England digging up 4,000-year-old trees and...

A WALES Air Ambulance was called to an incident in Denbigh which left a person needing hospital treatment. The helicopter was requested, alongside paramedics from the Welsh Ambulance Service (WAS), just before 3pm on Monday, February 8. A spokesperson for WAS said: "We were called to Llewelyn’s Estate, Denbigh on Monday at 2.48pm to reports of a medical emergency. "We attended the scene with one rapid response vehicle, two emergency ambulances and the Wales Air Ambulance. "One perso...

Published January 19, 2021, 5:58 PM The chief solon-investigator in the reported questionable deal between the Development Bank of the Philippines and the owners of the ABS-CBN that allegedly resulted in government losing P1.6 billion has asked accusers to produce the evidence that will support the allegations. This view shows the ABS-CBN network headquarters in Quezon City in the Metro Manila area. (Photo by Maria TAN / AFP / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) DIWA Partylist Rep. Michael Aglipay, c...

–San Luis Obispo County Assistant Fire Chief Alan Peters has announced his retirement. After 16 years, from 1988-2004, working in the private timber industry all over the western United States, Chief Peters, a Registered Professional Forester, joined Cal Fire in 2005. He started his Cal Fire career as a fuels reduction Forester I in the Tuolumne/Calaveras Unit. In 2009, he promoted to his current Unit Forester position in the San Luis Obispo Unit, where he has served as the Pre-Fire Division ...