Sunday, August 18, 2013

Search suspended for 171 missing in Philippine ferry disaster


Stormy weather forced Philippine rescuers to suspend a search Saturday for 171 people missing after a crowded ferry collided with a cargo ship and quickly sank, with 31 others confirmed dead.

A Philippine navy boat guards a cargo ship with its bow destroyed on August 17, 2013, after it collided with the ferry St Thomas Aquinas the night before off the town of Talisay near the Philippines' second largest city of Cebu. Philippine rescuers searched on August 17 for 171 people missing.

The St Thomas Aquinas ferry was carrying 831 passengers and crew when the vessels smashed into each other late on Friday night in a dangerous choke point near the port of Cebu, the Philippines' second-biggest city, authorities said.

Coastguard and military vessels, as well as local fishermen in their own small boats, frantically worked through the night and Saturday morning to haul 629 people out of the water alive.

But when bad weather whipped up the ocean mid-afternoon on Saturday, authorities suspended the search with 171 people still unaccounted for.

"It rained hard... with strong winds and rough seas," navy spokesman Lieutenant Commander Gregory Fabic told AFP.

Monday, August 5, 2013

Web pulsates as Chito Miranda, Neri Naig ‘sex scandal’ deepens



Chito Miranda has become a trending topic on Twitter as netizens scour the web for a sex video allegedly involving the Parokya ni Edgar frontman and celebrity girlfriend Neri Naig. 

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