IT IS OFFICIAL: THE WINNERS ARE KNOWN AND PEOPLE ALL OVER ARE CELEBRATING In the town I grew up in “Christmas and the fiesta came early!” local residents are all filled with pride that their small town made it to the list. Fireworks and people out in the streets came as the announcement was posted online. [...] [...more]
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) implements the sentence imposed by the General Court Martial to Former AFP Comptroller Major General Carlos Garcia, Friday. The sentences was approved by the reviewing authority, the President of the Republic of the Philippines, Benigno Aquino III. Palace News release on Aquino affirming sentence conviction on Gen. Garcia [...] [...more]
Both fighters spoke softly, at Wednesday’s press conference for the main title bout at PXC 26. But the quiet looks betrayed a hunger to give each other all they have for a up-and-coming fighter and a veteran MMA warrior at the Resorts World Manila this Saturday the 2oth. Ilocano roots are with Hawaii-based Fil-Am Harris [...] [...more]
A US Navy super carrier, like the USS Carl Vinson, is a floating piece of sovereign US territory, that can go almost anywhere. The third US Nimitz class carrier built, it was commissioned in 1980, and, named for a Georgia congressman who is known as the congressional father of America’s two ocean navy. The Carl Vinson, has enough firepower [...] [...more]
PEARL HARBOR: The US Navy will take part in efforts to monitor environmental impact from the Japanese Nuclear crisis. The Navy’s 7th fleet assets are helping to gather data – through water, soil, and, air. To see the extent of any contamination from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear reactor across its bases, aircraft, and, ships [...] [...more]