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© Video grab James Agustin Twitter account Old Sta. Mesa Manila fire Residents in Barangay 598 in Old Sta. Mesa in Manila were roused early Saturday morning as fire engulfed several houses, James Agustin reported on Super Radyo's dzBB. UPDATE: Lalo pang kumakalat ang apoy sa magkakadikit na bahay sa Brgy. 598 Old Sta. Mesa Maynila; nakataas sa 5th alarma. @dzbb@gmanewspic.twitter.com/RICH8TxFaH — James Agustin (@_jamesJA) June 30, 2017 As of 4:30 a.m., the fire was raised to fifth alarm by the Bureau of Fire Protection. The details, as to the cause of the fire and extent of damage, are still unavailable as of the time of this post. — BAP, GMA News

© REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer/Files Facebook logo is seen at a start-up companies gathering at Paris' Station F in Paris Facebook Inc said on Friday it was changing the computer algorithm behind its News Feed to limit the reach of people known to frequently blast out links to clickbait stories, sensationalist websites and misinformation. The move is another step by the world's largest social network to weed out spam, a battle Facebook has fought for years but that gained urgency after hoax news stories spread widely during last year's U.S. presidential campaign. Facebook said the change would reduce the influence of a "tiny group" of people it has identified who share vast amounts of low-quality public posts daily. Only about 0.1 percent of people who share more than 50 posts a day fall into that category, the company said. The change would affect only links shared by those people, not their photos or other posts, the company said. "Our research shows tha...

© (Photo by Sergei Fadeichev\TASS via Getty Images) MOSCOW, RUSSIA SEPTEMBER 23, 2016: Buying new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus as Apple's latest smartphones officially go on sale in Russia. It has been 10 years since Apple launched its most revolutionary product, the iPhone, one of the best-selling products of all time. Then along came apps, a popular and lucrative industry. Here’s a look at a few of the iPhone apps who made their backers very wealthy. Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy, Snapchat © The Associated Press Snapchat co-founders Bobby Murphy, left, and CEO Evan Spiegel, center, ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange as the company celebrates its IPO on March 2, 2017. Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy created Snapchat after meeting at Stanford University. “What if you could send photos to friends and have them disappear? For fun,” recalled Spiegel to USA Today in a 2013 interview .  After the original app Picaboo failed to gain traction in 2011, they re...

© Provided by Engadget There's only been one problem with Project Fi's well-received phone carrier network: too few phones. Until now, the only devices that work with it have been Google's own Nexus and Pixel handsets. It looks like that's about to change, though. Project Fi teased a release on Twitter, announcing "a new Fi-compatible device at a mid-tier price from one of our partners later this year." VentureBeat  reports this device will be Lenovo's Moto X4, which will likely become the very first non-Google phone on the Google Fi system. We know relatively little about the X4, other than a leaked marketing photo that surfaced this past May. According to a video leaked on Reddit , it's possible that the device will be an higher-end mid-range phone with a Snapdragon 660 processor, a 3,800mAh battery, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage and a fingerprint reader. Google Fi impressed us with its low cost, ease of use and the disruptive ability to use Wi...

© Photo: ASIAA/Jung-Shan Chang An artist’s concept shows an atmosphere of complex organic molecules within a disk of material that is ringed around a young star still forming in constellation Orion. Scientists could be watching alien life form in Orion — using one of the most powerful telescopes on Earth, they’ve detected the building blocks of a habitable planet swarming with life in orbit around a star forming in that constellation. A disk of material around the protostar is shaped like a hamburger, with two bright features like a bun sandwiching a darker cloud of material, the international team reported in the Astrophysical Journal . The whole thing contains complex organic molecules in its atmosphere above and below the disk that would be needed to support life later in the system’s development. The group says it is the first time scientists have made such a discovery so early in a star’s formation and it can tell us how life began on earth. The complex organic molecules, lik...

The country’s casino regulator said Thursday it lifted its suspension on Resorts World Manila after it tightened security measures nearly a month after an arson attack there left 38 people killed. Operations in areas of the casino that were unaffected by the June 2 fire will resume on Thursday, according to its operator, Travellers International Hotel Group. A lone assailant, who was reportedly suffering from a gambling addiction, fired at TV screens and set the casino floor of Resorts World on fire, killing himself and 37 others due to burns and suffocation. The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp said Resorts World hired a new security agency, increased the number of x-ray machines and metal detectors, armed more security guards, reviewed and improved safety protocols, held more security training for employees, had its buildings inspected for structural integrity and secured a fire inspection certificate from the Philippine Economic Zone Authority. PAGCOR said it also took into ...

© Provided by GMA News Online bulacan massacre witness A witness recounted seeing three men, including arrested suspect Carmelino Ibañes, when she passed by the home of the family slain on Tuesday in San Jose del Monte, Bulacan. The witness, nicknamed Celia in a report by Saleema Refran on 24 Oras, saw the three men when she passed by the Carlos' house while searching for her child who failed to return home the previous day. In her statement to the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group at Camp Crame on Friday, Celia said she even saw one of the men carrying a blood-drenched knife before running away. "Tatlo sila. Yung isa nakahubad, yung isa naka-dark blue, tapos yung isa naka t-shirt siya tapos parang marumi na. May edad na, yung dalawa po bata pa," she said. "Nakita ko yung isa yung bata pa na may kutsilyo siyang hawak-hawak tumutulo pa dito yung dugo. Dugo talaga. Pati mukha niya may dugo. Sabi ko, ano 'to? Umalis na lang po ako, natakot na po ako,...

Malacañang on Thursday hit back at international rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) for calling the first year of the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte a “human rights calamity.” Presidential Communications Operations Office Assistant Secretary Ana Marie Banaag told reporters that HRW seemed to have overlooked the gains achieved under Duterte’s presidency, especially in the war on drugs. “We don’t feel good about the comments of the Human Rights Watch… We have to realize that the president stood and won on a platform of genuine change,” Banaag said told reporters in a news conference. “Human Rights Watch should not brush aside all the programs especially on the enforcement side [of the war on drugs].” The New York-based group said Duterte’s “murderous ‘war on drugs,’ drug-related overcrowding of jails, and the harassment and prosecution of drug war critics has caused a steep decline in respect for basic rights since Duterte’s inauguration on June 30, 2016.” Banaag, ho...

© Provided by GMA News Online --- Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) General Manager Alexander Balutan has locked horns with gaming consultant Charlie "Atong" Ang over PCSO's P5.018-billion earnings from the expanded Small Town Lottery (STL) from January to May. Ang accused Balutan of "sugarcoating" the actual sales of STL, saying  since STL has a potential gross revenue of P5 billion a month, earnings from the five-month period should be higher than P5 billion or at least P25 billion. "With General Manager Balutan's statement, niloloko lang niya ang gobyerno," Ang said in a statement Thursday. "I'm challenging them to show the breakdown and I will prove that they are sugarcoating the actual  sales of STL." Balutan flatly denied Ang's accusation. "There is no way that the government can under-declare its revenues under the expanded STL," he said. "There is no sugarcoating that the PCSO is already ga...

Rodrigo Duterte ends his first year as Philippine president on Friday as a hugely popular leader, after taking Filipinos on a promised “rough ride” of drug war killings and foreign policy U-turns. Duterte has been heavily criticised for his unprecedented crackdown on drugs, which has claimed thousands of lives, and he marks 12 months in office enduring the biggest crisis of his rule as Islamist militants occupy parts of a southern city. The 72-year-old has also upended decades of foreign policy stability, launching verbal bombs against traditional ally the United States while steering the Philippines closer to authoritarian regimes in China and Russia. Yet an overwhelming majority of Filipinos support him, according to a series of surveys by pollsters over the past 12 months, with the most recent one showing 75 percent were satisfied with his administration’s performance. “People like the man,” Ricardo Abad, head of sociology and anthropology at Ateneo University in Manila, told AF...

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) played down the Maute group’s reported plan to establish a province in Mindanao under an ISIS caliphate, saying its days in Marawi were “numbered.” “We do not see any possibility at this point in time that the creation of a ‘Wilayah’ (province) would succeed, because there has been no caliphate established,” MILF chairman Murad Ebrahim told ABS-CBN News said in a mix of English and Filipino. Omar Maute and his brother Abdullah had been part of the MILF before they embraced violent extremism after studying in Jordan and Egypt. After returning to the Philippines, the two asked to put up their own group under the MILF, Murad recalled. “Sabi naman wala namang problema dahil MILF naman kayo. But then after they tried to form a group, nakita namin na iba yung kanilang mga polisiya, iba yung kanilang mga activities,” he said. (But then, after they tried to form a group, we saw that their policy was different, their activities were different.) ...

© Provided by Mediamerge Corporation Photo: Jessica Bartolome Homegrown fast food giant Jollibee Foods Corp. (JFC) is eyeing its first store in Japan by 2019 to cater to the potential influx of overseas Filipino workers there. "Hopefully we can open by 2019," JFC Chairman Tony Tan Caktiong told reporters on the sidelines of the company's annual stockholders' meeting in Pasig City. "We were told that Japan will welcome Filipino caregivers... Japan is about 45 million seniors that needs special care by nurses or caregivers," he added. For this year or by early next year, the company is looking at opening stores in Toronto, Canada; upscale Manhattan, New York City as well as in Australia and Guam, he added. "So we are very excited with this," he said. The plan to add more stores overseas is part of JFC's plan to have a network of 4,000 stores across the globe. For his part, JFC Chief Finance Officer Ysmael Baysa said that the company is t...

© Provided by Mediamerge Corporation Peso dollar thumbnail The Philippine peso rebounded against the dollar towards the end of the session on Friday as investors cashed in on the dollar's strength, snapping three straight days of weakness. The local currency gained 6 centavos to close at P50.470:$1 from 50.530 on Thursday. But the peso still traded at its weakest level since September 11, 2006 when the pair closed at P50.540:$1. "The peso's strength is due to profit-taking towards the end of the session," a trader from a local bank told GMA News Online. The trader noted that the local unit plumbed an intra-day low of P50.600:$1 as the higher-than-expected revision of the US first quarter gross domestic product growth highlighted the greenback's attractiveness. The US Commerce Department reported that the world's largest economy's first quarter growth was revised to 1.4 percent from 1.2 percent. "However, investors locked in on the dollar's...

© CLARK DEVT CORP CLARK DEVT CORP LOGO The chief of Clark Development Corp. (CDC) has taken a leave of absence to give way to an investigation amid President Rodrigo Duterte's allusions to bribery and a thinly veiled threat to sack an unnamed government official. In a statement posted on the CDC Communications Division's Facebook page late Thursday, CDC President and CEO Noel Manankil "categorically and very strongly" denied any involvement in "alleged anomaly of demanding bribes from Clark locators." Duterte on Thursday admitted that he was not sure if Manankil is guilty of any anomaly, but that he has received reports of alleged corruption involving the CDC official. “I’m not saying that I am sure that he is guilty. What I’m saying is that I’ve been receiving reports of corruption and I said, 'Please do not do that because', ang sabi ko naman, 'ganito tayo'. But I have always insisted on honesty and integrity in government,” the Pres...

  © Provided by Mediamerge Corporation App-based ride sharing service Uber has reached five billion trips worldwide hitting on May 20 when 156 trips simultaneously started in 24 counties in six continents. The trips happened in several cities including Manila, Mumbai, Moscow and Medellin. In a statement on Friday, Uber said that the feat would have been impossible without the service of drivers. The company awarded 156 drivers $500 for their service, including five lucky Filipino drivers: Amando Mateo, Edward Cunanan, Ariel Vinarao, Reynan Maranan, and Jeffrey Reliosa. "All of these trips wouldn’t be possible without the dedicated service of drivers. To express its gratitude to their service, Uber awarded each of the 156 drivers $500 for being part of this milestone," Uber said in a statement. "Moving forward, Uber is more focused than ever on building features for riders and drivers that will help it achieve its next five billion trips," it added. Uber also...

© Provided by Mediamerge Corporation MONEY- stock market thumbnail Share prices on the Philippine Stock Exchange snapped a two-day losing streak to close mostly in positive territory on Friday as fund managers went on window dressing for the first half of the year. The benchmark PSEi gained 55.10 points or 0.71 percent to 7,843.16 at the closing bell. The broader All Shares increased by 29.38 points or 0.63 percent to 4,692.03. "Philippine markets closed on a positive note this Friday and at the end of the first half of 2017 in a much anticipated window dressing session," Regina Capital Development Corp. business development head Luis Limlingan said. Window dressing is a strategy used by fund managers to improve their portfolio performance by the end of the year or quarter, according to Investopedia. Eagle Equities Inc. President Joseph Roxas also noted that window dressing spurred a rally late in the session. More than 2.071 billion shares, valued at P9.903 billion, ...

© Provided by AFP Portugal made an early repayment of 1 billion euros to the IMF, hoping to repay the remaining 2.6 billion in bailout loans by August Portugal has made an early repayment of one billion euros to the International Monetary Fund and intends to repay a further 2.6 billion euros of bailout loans by August, the government said Friday. As part of a bailout in 2011, Portugal was loaned 29.6 billion euros by the IMF, more than half of which has already been repaid. But Lisbon aims to reduce interest on borrowings with further early payments. The IMF interest currently stand at 4.6 percent, compared to available market rates of 3.0 percent over 10 years. "The early repayment to the IMF is significant in improving the viability of debt by reducing its cost," the finance ministry said in a statement. Once the next 2.6 billion euro sum is repaid, 10.4 billion euros of debt will remain to be repaid, according to the government.

© Provided by AFP German car maker Volkswagen (VW) reportedly manipulated sales figures in France, as some cars were not registered until months or years after they had supposedly been handed over to customers German car giant Volkswagen's French subsidiary manipulated sales figures for years to present an unrealistically positive picture to central management, news weekly Der Spiegel reported Friday. From 2010 onwards, around 800,000 cars from the Volkswagen brand as well as its Audi, Seat, Skoda and commercial vehicles subsidiaries were listed as having been delivered before they were even registered to drive on French roads, an auditors' report seen by the magazine recorded. Some cars were not registered until months or years after they had been supposedly been handed over to customers. Since receiving the results of the internal investigation in April, VW chief Matthias Mueller has accepted the resignation of France head Jacques Rivoal -- although the group put his de...

© Provided by Mediamerge Corporation Photo from Presidential Communications Operations Office Facebook page Banking on the massive infrastructure build-up promised by the Duterte administration, Eagle Cement Corp. intends to measure up to the potentially exponential demand for cement by building more factories "Hanggang kailangan pa ng market magtatayo kami. So pinag-aaralan namin ano 'yung ini-import ng market," Eagle Cement President and CEO Paul Ang told reporters in a press briefing in Mandaluyong City on Friday. Based on those results the company is trying to estimate what needs to be built, Ang said. He did not provide the specific number of new cement factories the company plans to build. He said that Eagle Cement is now completing a third integrated cement production line, which is expected to be operational by 2018, within the facility in Bulacan and up the production capacity by two million metric tons. The company is set to begin constructing a fourth in...

ELSA ORIA’S NIECE – One time, colleague and good friend Boy Villasanta dropped by at home with a feature on Maria Divina Sagaray Austria, wife of noted painter Tam Austria. Boy V called her the “anonymous wife;” his inspiration in many a painting. As one published story puts it, “Tam Austria finds creativity in the Beauty of Divine.” Boy V said that artistry runs in Mary Divine’s veins… apart from her affinity with her husband. She is the neice of Philippine cinema’s pre-World War II Singing Sweetheart Elsa Oria of “Bituing Marikit” and “Nasaan Ka Irog” fame. “I cherish the life we shared with my aunt Elsa. She was a wonderful person,” Boy V quoted Mary Divine as saying. Her mother Aileen Oria, herself an accomplished soprano during her time, was Elsa’s younger sister. She recalled with fondness her aunt and mom singing together. Asked if she also sings, she said, “Yes, I can but I already passed on the passion to my children.” • ACCOMPLISHED – Although a private person, Mary D...

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BRISBANE, Australia – With Manny Pacquiao, what you see isn't necessarily what you'll get. © Philstar.com Timothy Bradley greets Manny Pacquiao while heavyweight champion Joseph Parker looks on during Friday's gala event at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre in Brisbane, Australia. | Wendell Rupert Alinea This is the strong message by Timothy Bradley to Jeff Horn, whose camp believes they have carefully studied Pacquiao and already knows the Filipino icon from head to toe. Speaking at an event called "Boxing Royalty Luncheon" at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre here Friday, the former welterweight champion that he, too, carefully analyzed Pacquiao's fighting style prior to his first bout with the Filipino in 2012. He found out that clashing Pacquiao in the ring is an entirely different matter. "At first I watched him (Pacquiao) on film, but then when you actually get in there and fight him, he's actually faster than ...

© Provided by GMA News Online World Boxing Organization welterweight defending champion Manny Pacquiao (L) of the Philippines poses for pictures with Australian contender Jeff Horn (R) during a promotional press conference at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane on April 26, 2017. Both boxers will meet for the sold out title match on July 2. Patrick Hamilton/AFP Manny Pacquiao and Jeff Horn both came in under the welterweight limit a day before the Battle of Brisbane. The eight-division boxing champ weighed in at 146 pounds, while Australian Jeff Horn tipped at 147 pounds. Just in: @mannypacquiao weighs in at 146 lbs! #PacquiaoHorn@gmanewspic.twitter.com/pZY8sZmidR — Mark Zambrano (@markzambrano) June 30, 2017 Pacquiao (59-6-2, 38 knockouts) is an overwhelming favorite against Horn (16-0-1, 11 knockouts), but the Filipino ring icon has not stopped an opponent since his 12th round TKO of Miguel Cotto in 2009. Dubbed as  "Battle of Brisbane," the Horn-Pacquiao fight for the WB...

© Morpheus Bulletin Frank Buglioni is expecting a comfortable win on Saturday night before he looks to move on to world honours. Buglioni, 28, will defend his British light-heavyweight title against Summers at London's O2 Arena, live on Sky Sports. Buglioni weighed in at 12st 6lbs 4oz, slightly lighter than challenger Summers, but both well inside the light-heavyweight limit. Buglioni will not under-estimate his opponent and said: "He's a good fighter. I've seen him, he does the basics well. "He is unbeaten in 13 but he has not stepped up to the bigger stage and that is what you are going to see now. You are going to see the difference between myself and Ricky Summers. "I have had that big fight experience, I have thrived under the pressure and the big occasions. We are going to see if he sinks or swims and I am going to make sure he sinks. "My head movement is better, I am hitting harder. I believe it is going to be one-sided." However, Su...

© Dilip Vishwanat/GettyImages Boston Red Sox v St. Louis Cardinals ​I won't lie to you: I really saw this partnership going better. The Boston Red Sox and Allen Craig seemed like a match made in Heaven; high-OBP guy with serious pop heading to the organization other than the Cardinals that most valued his talents? In a John Lackey deal? Seemed like a slam dunk. Unfortunately, things never go as scripted. Joe Kelly's the main piece of that deal, and Craig, fresh off a .316 slugging percentage at Triple-A Pawtucket, has finally played his last game in the organization. Red Sox announce they've released Allan Craig. — Ryan Hannable (@RyanHannable) June 30, 2017 ​​This really was a baffling downfall for Craig. In 2013 for a Cards team that lost the World Series to the very same Red Sox, he hit .315 with 13 homers and a more impressive 97 RBI. At the very next trade deadline, he found himself in Boston, and he hit only .128. He's still only 32! This slippery slo...

© AAP/Dave Hunt/via Reuters Pinoy boxing icon Manny Pacquiao and Australian fighter Jeff Horn stand together following their official news conference on Wednesday, June 28, 2017, ahead of their WBO welterweight fight in Brisbane, Australia, on Sunday, July 2, 2017. AAP/Dave Hunt/via Reuters Some 50,000 Australian fans are expected to be in attendance when Manny Pacquiao takes on Jeff Horn on Sunday in Brisbane. But the Filipino ring icon said he is unfazed by the homecourt advantage for the Australian fighter, saying he actually enjoys going into hostile territory. "Ang akala nila advantage sa kanila dahil 50,000 audience ang magsu-support," Pacquiao said in a live interview on "24 Oras" on Friday. "Mas gusto ko na mas maraming fans yung kalaban ko dahil nagiging inspirado ako," he added. Pacquiao said he is going into the fight with something to prove. "Kailangan nating ipakita na kaya pa nating tumalo ng mas bata sa atin," he said. Whe...

© Photo by Steve Marcus/Getty Images Bringing you the weird and wild from the world of MMA each and every weeknight Welcome to Midnight Mania! Conor McGregor released some new training footage today, with the caption “You’ve never seen these moves. #Ghost” Floyd Mayweather, meanwhile, posted his own training footage, with a much longer caption that reminds us how long he’s been doing this. Now, see them side by side. Enough seen. Especially if this is right. Go forth and get crazy in the comments. Give me your wildest takes. This sums up my thoughts on the matter. If you think McGregor could do that on a speed bag, or that's what Mayweather looks like on a heavy bag, you're out of your mind — Patrick Wyman (@Patrick_Wyman) June 30, 2017 Or, an alternative point of view: Failing Up Nick Diaz is an extraordinary character. The man doesn’t enjoy fighting , but he’s invested his whole life into it, and he’s one of the most popular and beloved people in the spo...

By: Ben R. Rosario His demonstration of an “awesome leadership” and resolve to make good on his campaign promises were among the positive impressions that President Duterte gave one of his predecessors, former President now Pampanga Rep. Gloria M. Arroyo. But unlike Arroyo, the Makabayan bloc, represented by Left-leaning lawmakers belonging to the pro-Duterte majority bloc of the House of Representatives, is not fully impressed with the President’s performance in his first year. Reps. Carlos Zarate (Bayan Muna party-list), Antonio Tinio and France Castro (ACT Teachers partylist), Emmi de Jesus and Arlene Brosas (Gabriela partylist), as well as the Kabataan partylist aired dissatisfaction over many of Duterte’s programs. Arroyo cited Duterte’s “sustained efforts” in boosting the morale of soldiers and policemen who have been gallantly fighting Islamic State-linked Maute terrorists in Marawi City. She said Duterte’s regular visits to the soldiers and his order raising financial be...

Share this: KAABANG-ABANG na paglalakbay ang muling handog ni Gina Lopez dahil ang kagandahan naman ng Davao ang kanyang bibisitahin at ipagmamalaki sa G Diaries ngayong Sabado (Hulyo 1). Samahan si Gina sa pagtungo niya sa Davao para ipakita ang naggagandahan nitong tourist destinations, pati na rin ang kanyang karanasan sa pakikibaka kasama ang mga Davaoeño para maprotektahan ang likas na yaman nito, gaya na lamang ng Philippine Eagle. Ipakikita rin ni Gina ang kauna-unahang environmental summit sa Pilipinas na kanyang binuo kasama si Father Joel Tabora ng Ateneo de Davao University. Lalong magiging kapana-panabik ang iba pang bahagi ng special dahil kasama niyang bibisita sa Davao ang respetadong aktor at direktor na si Eddie Garcia. Huwag palalampasin ang G Diaries 8:30 ng umaga sa ABS-CBN at sa Lifestyle Network tuwing Miyerkules, 9:30 PM; Huwebes, 10:30 AM; Biyernes, 6:00 PM, at Linggo, 3:30 PM at 11:00 PM. Bisitahin ang www.gdiaries.abs-cbn.com para sa iba pang...

Share this: Ni NORA CALDERON REUNION nina Sanya Lopez at Thea Tolentino ang kanilang bagong afternoon prime drama series na Haplos. Una silang nagkasama sa longest running afternoon prime ng GMA-7na The Half Sisters na gumanap si Sanya bilang best friend ng bidang si Barbie Forteza at kontrabida nila si Thea na produkto ng talent search na The Protege. Naging isa sa mga bida sa Encantadia si Sanya at napasama naman si Thea sa Destined To Be Yours bilang kontrabida nina Alden Richards at Maine Mendoza. Ngayon, super ang pagkakontrabida ni Thea kay Sanya sa pagganap nila bilang step-sisters.  Okey lang ba kay Thea na kontrabida na naman siya sa bago niyang soap? “Opo, challenge sa akin na maging villain, saka naiiba po ang story ng Haplos,” sagot ni Thea. “May touch of enchantment po ang story namin, at sa akin napunta ang role ni Lucille, na may shades ng witchcraft o pangkukulam ang character niya. Nagpi-pray nga po ako tuwing may tsina-chant ako sa eksena.”...

Share this: Ni: Reggee Bonoan INAMIN ng isa sa cast ng Bloody Crayons na si Diego Loyzaga sa kanilang presscon na may naramdaman siya habang sinu-shoot nila ang pelikula. “I had a creepy experience doon sa bahay kung saan kami nag-shooting. Nu’ng minsang napagod ako, umupo ako sa isang rocking chair sa may sala at nakatulog ako. Pagkagising ko, mabigat na ‘yung pakiramdam ko. Parang nilalagnat ako at nangangalay ‘yung leeg ko. Eh, di ba, sabi nila ibig sabihin nu’n may nakasakay na multo sa batok mo?” kuwento ng aktor. Pero hindi lang si Diego ang may naramdaman sa set, pati na ang ilang crew ng Bloody Crayons. Kapag horror ang tema ng pelikula, laging may kakaibang nararamdaman sa shooting ang production lalo na kapag lumang bahay ang ginamit. Anyway, ipinagmamayabang ni Diego na napakaganda ng Bloody Crayons. “Hindi ko sinasabi ito dahil lang kasama ako sa cast, pero nu’ng nabasa ko ‘yung script, nagustuhan ko talaga siya, to the point na papanoorin ko siya kahit wala ako ...

Share this: Ni REGGEE BONOAN FOLLOW-UP ito sa sinulat namin kahapon tungkol sa bulilyasong show nina Arci Muñoz, Ronnie Liang at Daniel Matsunaga sa Paris at Vienna noong Hunyo 24 at 25. Kuwento ng aming very reliable source, gumamit ng mga pekeng ID ang show producer na si Jefferson Parica na nagsabing miyembro siya ng Sandigan Pinoy Association, pero hindi naman pala kaya ang mga lehitimong miyembro ang nagpalabas ng official statement sa nangyari. “Nasira kasi ang pangalan nila kaya naglabas sila ng official statement,” sabi sa amin ng source na hindi naman masabi kung kakilala ng grupo si Jeff Parica. Bukod dito, “Matagal nang expired ang visa ni Jeff kaya posibleng ipa-deport siya kapag nahanap na siya. Kasi as of now hindi siya makita at palipat-lipat pala ng tirahan. May anggulong human trafficking din, iniimbestigahan pa.” Mukhang nakakita ng katapat ang naturang show producer na dahil sa nabulilyasong show ay maraming kababayang Pinoy ang naapektuhan. Pati lehitimong...

Share this: Ni REGGEE BONOAN ANG tigasing si Joaquin Tuazon (Arjo Atayde) ng FPJ’s Ang Probinsyano ay biglang lumambot bilang si Rocky Gathercole, ang tanyag na Pinoy designer ng mga sikat na Hollywood stars tulad nina Paris Hilton, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, at maraming iba pa. Ang kuwento sa likod ng mga disenyo ni Rocky ay isang batang nangarap ng buong pamilya. Isang linggo simula nang ipanganak ay iniwan na siya ng ina at lumaki sa lasenggero at babaerong ama. Nang lumaki at matanto ni Rocky ang kanyang tunay na kasarian, nagdesisyon siyang iwan ang ama para hanapin ang ina. Pero hindi naganap ang inakala niyang masayang pagkikita dahil mas lumalim pa tuloy ang sugat sa kanyang pagkatao. Itinaboy siya ng ina na ayaw magulo ang bagong pamilya. Namuhay na mag-isa at pagala-gala sa mga kalsada ng Maynila si Rocky.   Mapapanood mamayang gabi sa ABS-CBN kung paano niya nakayanang mabuhay na mag-isa at kung ano ang naging tulay para maging sikat siyang design...

Share this: Ni ADOR SALUTA BILANG producer, ipinagmamalaki ni Piolo Pascual ang pelikulang Kita Kita na pinagbibidahan ng kakaibang love team nina Alessandra de Rossi at Empoy Marquez under his Spring Films Production. Gagampanan ng tinatawag ngayong AlEmpoy ang romantic millennial film about OFWs. Ang Kita Kita ay kinunan in full sa Hokkaido, Japan under the direction of Sigrid Andres Bernardo. Bakit tumaya si Piolo sa tambalang AlEmpoy? “Ako kasi risky akong tao, eh. Kapag naniwala ako sa isang proyekto, kasama pati batok,” aniya nang humarap sa press conference ng Kita Kita. Hindi niya isinaalang-alang ang pagiging box office ng kanyang pelikula? “So regardless of the outcome. Of course, you want it to succeed, basta naniwala ka sa isang konsepto paninindigan ko ‘yun to the end, especially with people working with you who believe in the project.” Bilang artist, naniniwala si Papa P na dapat ay sumusugal siya sa proyekto paminsan-minsan. Kaya natural lang sa kanyang sumug...