First it was an encounter between chinese vessels and a fising boats, then fighter jet flyby’s – now its partol boats cutting survey cables of a researh vessel 80 kilometers from Vietnam’s coastline. On the same day china’s defense cheif was meeting with his Philippine counterpart. China’s martime police agency a para-military type coast guard [...] [...more]
Early Sunday morning in Manila a flood of strange – some sexual in tone - messages flooded one of the leading news networks websites in social networking platforms. GMANews twitter and facebook sites suddenly turned into a slew of messages that traced back to a “White hack’, attacker who goes by the name of “d4rkb1t”, [...] [...more]
Terrorism is a crime – Violence or the threat thereof to do a violent act is the legal definition of the criminal act of terrorism, it is aimed towards arriving at a political or ideological goal. It is a crime across the world in all legal venues in every member state of the United Nations. As [...] [...more]
HD video recording comes to iPod touch. Ready, and action. Because your iPod touch — and its built-in HD video camera — go with you everywhere, you’re always ready to record when the moment strikes. And now you can use it in a breaking news situation for basic news gathering. With a camera stunning high [...] [...more]
President Benigno S. Aquino III on Thursday welcomed the interests of three Thai business groups to expand their businesses in the Philippines. The President separately met with the top officials of the three Thai business groups at the Chairman’s Room of Shangri-la Hotel shortly after he arrived here from Manila for a two-day official [...] [...more]
TYPHOON “CHEDENG” WAS ESTIMATED BASED ON RADAR, SATELLITE AND SURFACE DATA AT 260 KM NORTH NORTHEAST OF VIRAC, CATANDUANES OR 300 KM EAST OF CASIGURAN, AURORA ( 15.8° N, 125.4 °E ) WITH MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS OF 175 KPH NEAR THE CENTER AND GUSTINESS OF UP TO 210 KPH. IT IS FORECAST TO MOVE NORTHWEST [...] [...more]
STRATFOR came out with a excellent analysis from the US perspective of the difficulties and successes of the decade long US search for Bin Laden. It goes in depth into the difficulties of dealing with human intelligence deployments in unfriendly environments where ‘one man’s terrorists is another’s hero’. A problem not only for the US Intel community but others as well across the [...] [...more]
Posting verbatim; Update 5 on effects of TY Chedeng (Songda) as in PAOR area. Heavy rain has already caused damage and floods as this wide storm moves slowly towards Luzon Island. At 4:00 am today, The eye of typhoon “CHEDENG” was estimated based on radar, satellite and surface data at 270 km east Northeast of [...] [...more]
When Taliban, members staged a raid on a Naval base in Pakistan’s urban coastal port city of Karachi this week, every global intelligence and security service went into ‘a nightmare mode scenario’. The site is 15 miles away from a major Pakistani Air Force nuclear weapons stockpile. []… “Taliban’s success in penetrating a Pakistan airbase [...] [...more]
FORECAST: SOUTHERN LUZON AND EASTERN VISAYAS WILL HAVE RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS BECOMING STORMY OVER BICOL REGION AND SAMAR PROVINCES WHILE MINDANAO AND THE REST OF VISAYAS WILL EXPERIENCE MONSOON RAINS. THE REST OF LUZON WILL HAVE CLOUDY SKIES WITH SCATTERED RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. MODERATE TO STRONG WINDS BLOWING FROM THE NORTHEAST TO NORTHWEST WILL [...] [...more]
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