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Lucio Tan's grandson takes over late dad's PAL, LT Group posts

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 18 02:09 PM

Tan III was appointed as director, president and chief operating officer of Tanduay Distillers Inc replacing his father Tan Jr., LT Group said in a disclosure to the stock exchange.  Read more »

John Lennon's round glasses sell for P9.2 million

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Dec 15 10:22 AM

A pair of John Lennon's sunglasses The Beatles legend once left behind in the back seat of a car sold Friday for £137,500 at an auction in London. Read more »

PH, US officials inaugurate PNP patrol boat facility

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 06 05:31 PM

The US Embassy in Manila said the nearly P100 million-worth facility includes a boat ramp, pier, armory, offices, barracks, and a laboratory. Read more »

New cruise ship tech lets you stay connected while disconnecting

Tariro Mzezewa, The New York Times
Updated as of Dec 04 04:34 PM

The P3.8-billion project includes the enhancement of existing facilities in its first phase from 2020 to 2021 and reconfiguration based on traffic demand in the second phase from 2026 to 2027, the DOTr said in a statement. Read more »

Nueva Ecija's forgotten son: Lobing Samson, Shanghai's 'King of Clarinet' in Hong Kong

Jan Yumul
Updated as of Nov 30 09:49 AM

HONG KONG—Long before he became known as the "King of Swing' Benny Goodman of China" and a kind and (stage) father to Hong Kong's iconic all-sibling group D'Topnotes, Filipino clarinetist, composer and arranger Lobing Samson was already an artist in his own right. Read more »

P455-milyong halaga ng 'shabu' nasamsam sa Las Piñas

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 30 07:29 AM

MAYNILA—Nasamsam ng mga pulis ang nasa P455-milyong halaga ng hinihinalang shabu sa raid sa Las Piñas City, Sabado ng madaling-araw. Read more »

Gov't urged to find 'better way' of reducing medicine prices

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 29 05:25 PM

Bulk procurement can be arranged with manufacturers for cheaper medicines instead of imposing a maximum price cap, executive director of the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Association of the Philippines (PHAP) Teodoro Padilla said in a statement.  Read more »

Pussycat Dolls announces reunion tour 10 years after split

Reuters
Posted at Nov 28 09:52 PM

A decade after splitting, the group — originally formed as a burlesque dance troupe and known for songs like "Don't Cha" and "When I Grow Up" — will hit the stage from April in Dublin before putting on shows around Britain. Read more »

PNP prepares for SEA Games

Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 28 01:04 PM

Members of the Philippine National Police inspect buses provided by the Yanson Group of companies (Ceres Transport), to be utilized for the upcoming SEA Games, at the NCRPO Grandstand in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City on Thursday.  Read more »

Bangladesh sentences 7 to death for 2016 cafe attack

Ruma Paulm, Reuters
Updated as of Nov 27 05:04 PM

DHAKA - A Bangladesh court on Wednesday handed death sentences to seven members of an Islamist militant group for plotting an attack on a cafe in 2016 that killed 22 people, mostly foreigners, in the south Asian nation's worst such incident.   Read more »

3 dinukot ng mga kapwa Chinese, nasagip

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Nov 26 10:01 PM

Tatlong Chinese na empleyado ng POGO ang nailigtas ng mga pulis sa magkahiwalay na operasyon sa Laguna at Parañaque. Read more »

OFW advocates alarmed over House bill favoring private recruitment agencies

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 26 03:38 PM

MANILA - Advocates of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) have expressed alarm over the inclusion of what they said were disadvantageous provisions in a consolidated bill pending at the House of Representatives drafted by the technical working group on the proposed Department of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs).  Read more »

Mag-asawang nakalaya mula sa Abu Sayyaf, dumating na sa Maynila

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 26 04:20 AM

MAYNILA—Nailipat na sa kustodiya ng embahada ng Britanya dito sa Pilipinas ang mag-asawang na-kidnap nang halos 2 buwan ng Abu Sayyaf sa Sulu.  Read more »

Mag-asawang dinukot ng Abu Sayyaf sa Zamboanga del Sur, nailigtas

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 26 01:06 AM

Bago nailigtas, 3 sunod-sunod na operasyon ang inilunsad ng AFP na ikinamatay ng 6 na Abu Sayyaf. Read more »

How Taylor Swift dragged private equity into her fight over music rights

Kate Kelly, Joe Coscarelli and Ben Sisario, The New York Times
Posted at Nov 25 08:14 AM

A little more than a week ago, a troubling alert appeared on the smartphone of an executive at the private equity giant the Carlyle Group: The firm had been invoked by Taylor Swift. Read more »

Golf: Kim sinks long birdie to win biggest prize in women's golf

Reuters
Posted at Nov 25 05:46 AM

Kim Sei-young sank a 25-foot birdie putt at the final hole to win the CME Group Tour Championship and the biggest prize in women's golf, $1.5 million in Florida on Sunday.   Read more »

Coldplay no-tour plan highlights growing climate awareness

Joe Jackson, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 23 03:42 AM

LONDON, United Kingdom—British band Coldplay on Friday won plaudits for shelving a new album tour over environmental concerns, in the latest sign of climate change activism in the music industry. Read more »

Radisson group to open in Bacolod, Mandaue in next 2 years

Jessica Fenol, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Nov 20 09:53 AM

Park Inn by Radisson in Bacolod City will open next year while Radisson RED Cebu Mandaue in Mandaue City will be operational by 2022, bringing its Philippines network to 7 hotels with 1,290 rooms, said its Asia Pacific vice president for operations Andre De Jong. Read more »

Ex-label says Taylor Swift can sing her old hits at awards show

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 19 06:44 AM

Taylor Swift's former label said Monday that it will allow the global pop superstar to perform some of her early hits at an awards show this month -- the latest twist in a months-long public feud over the rights to her first six albums. Read more »

4 na umano'y kotong cops sa Maynila, iniimbestigahan na ng DOJ

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 15 10:09 AM

MAYNILA—Sumalang sa inquest proceedings ng Department of Justice (DOJ) ang 4 na pulis na naaresto matapos umanong kikilan ng P200,000 ang pamilya ng naaresto nilang drug suspek sa Baseco, Tondo, Maynila.  Read more »