International Non-Government Organizations (INGO) from United Nation assembled at Trento, Agusan del Sur last December 27. These INGOs form a cluster for Shelter, Food and Education to give support the Provincial Government for the rehabilitation program of the affected municipalities of Agusan del Sur by the Typhoon Pablo.

There are five major municipalities included on the rehabilitation program, Bunawan, Trento, Sta. Josefa, Veruela.

The UN-INGOs will make a center in Trento where the relief goods will be dropped on that place and distributed to other affected municipalities.

The Shelter cluster headed by the UN-International Organization for Migration (UN-IOM) pursue on imposing an emergency shelter program for the victims, immediately. Based on IOM’s standard, the shelter should not make its occupants feel very hot in the morning and too cold at night.

Mr. Mariano P. Nava of UN-IOM presided the meeting on the shelter program with the Municipal Social Welfare and Development (MSWD) heads from different affected municipalities, the Chief of Staff of Provincial Government of Agusan del Sur, Provincial Social Welfare and Development Officer, Regional Department of Social Welfare and Development Crisis Intervention Unit Head and UNICEF representatives.

“This is not like Typhoon Sendong’s effect, it is the combination of Typhoon Ondoy and Sendong,” as Mr. Mariono described the effect of Typhoon Pablo.

Aside on the disaster made by Typhoon Pablo, the shelter program faced another problem and that is the distance between other houses.

“Unlike the Sendong, we can compress the people and relocate them easily- but not in here” he added along the discussion.

MSWD’s found it a big challenge and should be resolved with their next meeting.

Mr. Jess Far, Chief Protection Specialist from UNICEF shared his other concerns regarding on the shelter program. He emphasized that the shelter program should be implemented as soon as possible.

According to Mr. Jess, without the shelter it could be a reason to create a human trafficking because crime syndicates will use this opportunity.

“We should monitor the migration of the people of the affected municipalities especially the children who are prone to this kind of activity (human trafficking),” he added on his talk.

Human trafficking is very rampant on this kind of situation and mostly will accept even the smallest offer that a crime syndicate can offer.

All the concerns raised on the said meeting will be carried this coming January 3, 2013 meeting that will be held in Trento, Agusan del Sur.

by: Melody E. de Vera

AGUSAN DEL SUR - Four people were confirmed dead and three others injured as thousands were housed temporarily in safe shelters after typhoon Pablo (BOPHA) battered the province Tuesday morning on December.

In a report from the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRRMC), a total of 30,305 persons evacuated following Pablo destroyed their houses. Heavy rains and strong gust of winds resulted to trees collapsing on houses and roads and the swelling of rivers and creeks.
About 20 people coming from different barangays of Veruela, Sibagat, Rosario, Sta. Josefa and Trento were dead and 12 persons were injured.

PDRRMC report revealed the municipality of Veruela was the hardest hit as 4, 532 families comprised of 24, 238 persons in 20 barangays were heavily affected. Reports also indicate massive destruction on properties, infrastructure and agriculture. Next with the highest number of affected persons is Sta. Josefa town with 2, 578 families made up of 13, 296 individuals.
Meanwhile, cost of partially damaged houses was pegged at 11, 347 and 378 million cost of damage to crops and livestocks and reaches to P221 million costs of infrastructures damages.
At present, 147 barangays have no electricity.

On Wednesday morning, Governor Eddiebong Plaza and Vice-Governor Santiago Cane Jr. and other provincial officials personally conducted an ocular inspection in the devastated areas and lamented on the extent of damages brought about by the super typhoon.

Asked for his comment while in Veruela, the governor stressed, “napakasama nang nangyari dito. Nakakalungkot ang nakita nating lawak ng pinsala sa crops pati sa rubber and palm oil plantations galing sa Trento papunta ng Sta. Josefa at dito. Malaking problema ito at kailangan na nating humingi ng tulong sa national government upang mabigyan ng kaukulang solusyon kasi karamihan ay nawalan ng bahay at kabuhayan.”

Governor Plaza added, “this is the first time sa history ng Agusan del Sur na ganito karami ang nasirang bahay. Ilang beses na tayong binaha kaya medyo sanay na tayo pero bago sa atin ang malakas na hangin. Dapat na nating itaas ang kaalaman ng mga mamamayan sa kakaibang takbo ng panahon ngayon. Ang daming proyektong ibinuhos ang DSWD through KALAHI-CIDDS at nang LGU dito pero puro sira talaga. Kailangan matugunan ito ng kaukulang hakbang at alam ko babangon ang Veruela at ang buong Agusan del Sur.”

The local government of the affected municipalities is now providing the needs of the victims through the distribution of relief assistance like food, water and clothing. (PPIO-AgSur)

Hand in Hand for Agusan.  This is what employees of the Provincial Government of Agusan del Sur wanted to emphasize as they donate their used clothes and their unselfish time to pack and to distribute the relief goods to the affected areas of Agusan del Sur started last December 8 until 9.

The five municipalities affected by the Typhoon Pablo were Rosario, Bunawan, Trento, Sta. Josefa and Veruela. And they got most of the damage than other municipalities.

They already dispatched 4,600 packs of relief goods with 404 bags of used clothing in Veruela while in Sta. Josefa has 2,600 packs and in Trento were 900 packs.

Currently, the relief goods were came from the Provincial Calamity Fund.

The Provincial Social Welfare and Development (PSWD) encourage all the people out there to give foods or any things that could help the people build their houses and to share your blessings even in a simple way.

So, if you want to donate any amount here is the PGAS Donation Typhoon Pablo account number 0972-1237-49, Land Bank of the Philippines San Francisco Branch.

And if you want to donate foods just visit Provincial Covered Court, D.O. Plaza, Patin-ay, Prosperidad, Agusan del Sur. Or you may contact the following hotline:

Smart: 09478940376
Globe: 09173260290

A small amount can help millions; a piece of food can feed millions, so help our brothers and sisters who are still suffering the terror of Typhoon Pablo.

Courtesy of PPIO-AgSur

Typhoon Pablo with an international name of BOPHA destroyed five (5) municipalities of Agusan del Sur leaving 16 dead and 11 injured as of 10 p.m. of December 6.

The municipalities of Rosario, Bunawan, Trento, Sta. Josefa and Veruela received the impact of the Typhoon Pablo that destroyed the infrastructures and agricultural lands of the said municipalities.
According to the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRRMC), it reached 8,356 households were totally destroyed and over 6,211 were partially destroyed houses. Over 19,906,568 pesos costs of damage houses and 7,660,300 pesos costs of Agricultural lands such as rice fields, corn fields, coffee farms, lumbers and fruit lands were accounted.

Destroyed houses and trees can be seen along the highway of the municipality of Rosario. And the leaning utility poles made the people afraid to pass the Maharlika Highway.

Mr. Arean Amero, Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Officer (MDRRMO) of Bunawan, said that there were 6 injured reported and they had damage of 16,618,000 pesos in terms of their infrastructures and 5,580,842 pesos worth of damage on their agriculture.

The municipality of Trento had five (5) dead reported namely Elizabeth Zalueta, Cecilio Duarna, Pepito Cabusas, Jocelyn Navales and a 7-month old Baby Cabriadas. And the municipal hall of Trento was destroyed, too.  Everything, including houses and other infrastructures were damaged.
And in the town of Sta. Josefa, there were three (3) casualties namely Lilia Flores, Guillermo Cataag and Jovena Cataag. And also all the houses and agricultural land were destroyed.

According to Mang Edgardo Macias, a resident of Sta. Josefa, on 5 a.m. when the wind started to blow and at any time, they were ready to evacuate. And around 6 a.m. they went to their neighbor to evacuate. They witnessed the destruction of their house by the two fruit trees, Santol and Marang.
“Gisulti-an nami nga mag-andam, pero wala mi nagdahom nga kusog kaayo ang hangin- first time namo ni nasinati,” he added, “ngayo lang mig hinabang para makatukod mig balay.”

While in Veruela, Ms. Elvira, Municipal Social Welfare and Development (MSWD) of Veruela, over 95% of whole Veruela were destroyed by Typhoon Pablo. And some barangays were still submerged in flood. Agricultural lands and infrastructures were totally damaged.

There were seven (7) casualties viz. Emma Quibol (daughter), Lolita Quibol (mother), Willy Libotlibot, Jeffrey Sabado, Mark Lloyd Lodiveo, Junry Pingol and Beloso Eway.

The survivors of the typhoon are knocking on the hearts of those fortunate people to donate or to give assistance to them especially in building new houses.

Until now, the affected municipalities don’t have electricity. The evacuees need assistance especially on medicine, water and food.

Are you ready for the world's largest race?

Finally, the world's famous and largest and 9-time Emmy Award-winning reality show is already here in the Philippines. The Amazing Race Philippines will be airing soon in TV5.


"The Amazing Race Philippines will be hosted by Derek Ramsy and produced by ActiveTV for TV5.

This will be another hit and most adventurous reality TV show in the Philippines!



If you are interested to join, watch the video below to know where to have your audition, it might be in your city or province! And there are three ways to join: Online, Mail-in or On-ground.

Visit www.theamazingrace.ph for more info.


Source: TV5Philippines

Today, Wednesday, is the first day of the Cybercrime Prevention Law RA 10175 but the netizens still on their protest. Even at PNOY's facebook page, netizens flooded their comments and the netizens called him "boss" and ask an explanation why he signed the Law.

Here are the following comments on PNOY's Facebook Page.

Dodjie Lopez - It's very ███████████████████████ than be ██████████ for the sake of Sen. T█████████o. Ano ba yan. Ang dali lang ng solution pinapahirap nyo pa.
[ᴄᴏᴍᴍᴇɴᴛ ʙʟᴏᴄᴋᴇᴅ.] (ʀᴀ ɴᴏ. 10175)

Sam Romero Lovedorial - Naawa na po ako sau pres masisira ang reputation ng history of your family because of these nonsense pls po wala namang masama na aminin ang pagkakamali at bagohin na lang ito.....
Nobody's perfect

Margie Tacgos - mr. president dapat unahin mo yung mga tao ikulong ang magnanakaw sa kalhi at mga tao palaboy laboy sa daan walang matitirhan,yun dapat mo ikulong!


Melania C. Sonio - "Kmusta po kagalang-galang na Pangulo?
Maari nyo po bang magtanong at ipaliwanag sa aming (mamayang Pilipino) mabuti kung ano ang nilalaman ng Batas ng Cyber Crime! Alam ko po na malinis ang inyong hangarin sa pagpapatupad nito pero hindi po namin lubos na maunawaan ang pagtutol nyo sa kadakilaan ng kalayaan sa pagpapahayag ng iyong mga saloobin bilang mga anak, magulang, kapatid, kaibigan at kababayan... Diba po isa rin ito sa ipinaglalaban ng inyong nasirang ama noon?! Ang magkaroon ng KALAYAAN ANG BAWAT PINOY sa pagpapahayag? Sana po ay mabigyan nyo po ng pansin ang aming mga katanungan at panawagan!
Gumagalang,
OFW Pinoy"

Rommel de Mesa - Fail ka po manong president. Poor

Edward Saniatan - MR. PRESIDENT KUNG KMI ANG BOSS MO SANA NAMAN PAKINGGAN MO KAMI... MAAWA KA MARAMING MAAPEKTOHAN NA TAO, TRABAHADOR, ESTUDYANTE AT IBA PA. PARTE NA NG PANG ARAW-ARAW NMING GAWIN ANG COMPUTER... SANA PO MAINTINDIHAN NYO .... SANA PO IURONG NYO NA TO.

Aside from anti-cybercrime law there are people who are pro-cybercrime law like them:

Jonahowell Llamas-Pagaragan - there you go, know the facts first people, if you really want change and stop corruption, crimes, and poverty. do your share, this is just a small price to pay for our country's progress. WE SUPPORT CYBERCRIME LAW! :)

Remy Layugan - marami kc ang umaabuso na internet users cyber crime is Rampant so dapat lang na magkaroon na ng cyber laws para mabawasan ang mga taong umaabuso at gumagawa ng illegal activities thru online...go go mr president !

This will show how people react on the new law which they also called "Electronic Martial Law."

Until now, the Official Gazette website is still unavailable because of the DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) done by the local hackers, however the Malacanang denied the said attack.

It smells like there will be a Fight! Fight! Yeah, Punch her!

It all of a sudden the Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey feud started during the auditions in Charlotte last Tuesday. It has been said that Nicki started shouting and threatening her fellow American Idol judge, Mariah Carey.

People who were in the room said that Nicki was screaming at Mariah

"I'm gonna knock you out!"

The she shouted at the producers:

"I told them, I'm not f*ckin' putting up with her f*ckin' highness over there."

OMG, why they were fighting?

It all started when they disagreed about a contestant’s performance.

Oh God, they’re fighting and it all happened while they were sitting on the judges table.

It’s surely that Keith Urban was pretty shaken while sitting in between the fighting lady judges. But not only Keith Urban was scared but also the judges that the judges might quit.


Hope that it is only a stunt, but two divas having the same room is not a very good combination.

HTC has a new flagship Android device, launched last Tuesday, the HTC One X+.

This Android phone uses a processor of 1.7 GHz quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 with 64 Gigabytes of internal memory and a 2, 100 mAh battery and using Android 4.1, this phone is a monster. It has the capability also to giving it up to six hours (50%) more talk time.

It has been said that HTC One X+ stole the spotlight of Samsung Galaxy S III.




HTC is launching the latest version of its Sense UI: Sense 4+ and it means that this new phone will have many great software improvements including “Tap and Go” pairing with Beats speakers and a camera mode of Self-portrait.

HTC also release a new web service that called “Get Started,” that lets users easily set-up and personalize their mobile experience from a desktop browser.

HTC One X+ will be in stores across Europe and North Asia starting this October and across South Asia this coming November.

Source: Mashable
Photo: Mashable

credits: Boxofficebuz

After the successful movie of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, here comes another story that everybody will surely wanted to watch it, THE WOLVERINE.

The photo above suggested that their is another side of Wolverine's life story. It might run the story on a Japanese scene because of the Buddha on the picture's back draft.

The said movie will be released next years, 2013, and it is directed by James Mangold. James already familiar on character style movie because of his experience on making Girl Interrupted and Identity.

The Wolverine also stars 

• Brian Tee, 
• Will Yun Lee, 
• Hiroyuki Sanada, 
• Svetlana Khodchenkova, 
• Rila Fukushima,
• James Fraser,
• Tao Okamoto,
• Luke Webb 
• Hal Yamanouchi.

Source: BoxOfficeBuz

Before the announcement of the Bottom two, Khalil Ramos and Daniel Padilla serenades the audiences especially the girls. Every girl on PAGCOR is screaming and very hoity-toity to the two cuties singing in front of them.

The announcement followed after the production and before the break.

The first candidate who saves is KZ, followed by Gab, then Allen. And the bottom two is Daddy’s Home of Mr. Garry Valenciano and Jeric of Mr. Martin Nievera.

Charice kneel down after hearing the good news that her students, KZ and Allen, are on the TOP 4.

BOTTOM 2

It’s a Deadlock!

Since it is a deadlock, it means that the votes garnered from the text votes will decide who will be going home. The contestant that got the lowest votes will be the one who will be eliminated.

Daddy’s Home – 19.63%
Jeric Medina – 16.74%

So it means that Jeric Medina will be eliminated and Daddy’s Home will be listed on X Factor’s TOP 4.

X FACTOR Philippines Facebook Page

On this movie, Vice Ganda will play the role of a suitor (suitor?) suitor of Ms. Toni Gonzaga and it is a requirement that Vice will have a kissing scene with Toni and this will be the first onscreen kiss of Vice.

Toni told the reporters in an interview that, "Lalaki siya sa pelikulang ito kaya nakakatawa, pero lalaking-lalaki siya, convincing ah."

Regarding to their kissing scene, Toni told the reporters again, "Pinakamalalang nagawa ko sa buong buhay ko, na magka-eksena kami ni Vice na hindi ko alam kung paano namin nagawa! First time ko ma-experience 'yung ganung klaseng kissing scene, kakaiba, hindi ko mai-describe. Nakakabaliktad ng sikmura."



Vice Ganda and Luis Manzano will have a bed scene in the movie. Last July, a photo of Vice and Luis seen on a bed together spread online.

Other Casts:

IC Mendoza
DJ Durano
Ricci Chan
Lassie Marquez
Ricky Rivero
Gladys Reyes


This Guy's In Love With You Mare full trailer, watch it now!

This is true, they (Justin and Selena) bought a land and build their house.

The hottest couple (as they said) has bought a land at Tarzana, CA with a view of the San Fernando Valley.


According to hollywoodlife.com,

 “Justin and Selena are building a massive home together in Tarzana. It’s just a dirt lot right now with some pipes, but it has a generous panoramic view of the San Fernando Valley.”

They choose to build a home there because Selena could stay close to her mother who lives nearby Woodland Hills area.


So, does it mean that they are ready to build their own family? Does Justin ready to carry a real baby? Could still sing "Who said that you are not perfect?" after having a baby? What can you say guys?

Photo: Surfme

The title has been given to the  Mr. Pogi of 2012, John Edric Ulang from Binangonan, Rizal last September 15, 2012 at Eat Bulaga.

Mr. Pogi 2012 John Edric Ulang

Among the 16 Grand Finalists of Eat Bulaga's Mr. Pogi 2012, the beauty, talent and brain of John Edric surpasses the other finalists. Jericho Rosales, Mr. Pogi 1996, handed the trophy and the check worth 200,000 pesos plus sponsor's prizes to John Edric Ulang, the newest heartthrob and Mr. Pogi 2012.

But seems, netizens didn't like the result especially Bryann Carlo Jaofrancia as First Runners-up. Some said that he is not "pogi" others said that he looks like "pusang gala" what can you say about this?

Here are the results of Mr. Pogi 2012

1st Runners-up:

#08 Bryann Carlo Jaofrancia, Cavite

#13 Jaylord Casiño, CDO

2nd Runner-up:

#01 Chryst Josef Almazar, Laguna

3rd Runner-up:

#06 John Paul Duray, Olongapo

SPECIAL AWARDS:


Best Mr. Pogi Profile Pic: #09 Rommel Galido, Iloilo City
*based on the number of accumulated “likes” on the contestants’ on their Facebook picture

Texters’ Choice: #05 Franz Akeem Aldover, Valenzuela
*based on the text poll that ran from Monday to Saturday morning



Mr. Pogi Talent: #08 Bryann Carlo Jaofrancia, Cavite


TOP 9:
#06 John Paul Duray, Olongapo
#02 Kelvin Engles, Manila
#04 John Edric Ulang, Rizal
#05 Franz Akeem Aldover, Valenzuela
#01 Chryst Josef Almazar, Laguna
#13 Jaylord Casiño, CDO
#09 Rommel Galido, Iloilo
#08 Bryann Carlo Jaofrancia, Cavite
#12 Bonz Andre Militar, Davao



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Photo: Eat Bulaga