U2 to play live to the world via Youtube

“ONE”: U2 with Mary J. Blige
The stadium rockers will stream their LA Rose Bowl Stadium gig
U2’s show at the LA Rose Bowl Stadium will be streamed live on 25th October at 8.30pm (PST) on Youtube. The Irish rockers are hyping the concert as “the world’s biggest band performing on the [...]

Philippine floods recede but death, damage tolls mount

Death Rises to 602 Due To Killer Typhoons

Toll from heavy rain in Philippines rose further as more bodies were recovered

A total of 265 people were confirmed dead in landslides and flooding caused by Parma in the past two days
DAGUPAN, Philippines — Floodwaters from tropical storm Parma receded in much of the northern Philippines on [...]

Death Toll Rises To More Than 450; After Ketsana, Philippines Pounded By Another Worst Flood

boatman transports three empty wooden coffins on the edge of Laguna Lake east of Manila on Thursday(LA Times).

A resident use makeshift boat to save himself and his neighbours after their house were hit by floodwaters caused by continous rains brought by Typhoon Parma in Baguio City, north of Manila October 4, 2009. (Reuters)
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The wrath of Typhoon Ondoy has wreaked havoc in the Philippines, which claimed hundreds of lives,thousands of homes , and more are still trapped and missing…. and we need your help!
ABC News Breakfast-Australia 09-27-09

Seen from a military helicopter flying above the sprawling city, Manila was covered by a sea of brown [...]

Corazon Aquino 1933-2009: The Saint of Democracy

By Hannah Beech Monday, Aug. 17, 2009

Aquino was triumphantly sworn in 10 months earlier on Feb. 25
Robin Moyer / Liaison / Getty Images
It shouldn’t have been surprising, really, that the world’s most populous continent would give birth to a movement called People Power. In 1986, a housewife from the Philippines whose given name meant “heart” [...]

Lea Salonga’s ‘Bayan Ko’ rendition brings mourners back to EDSA ‘86

LIKE EDSA AGAIN. Lea Salonga’s ‘Bayan Ko’ rendition transported people back to 1986 when the song became the anthem of a peaceful revolt for democracy.

Lea’s heartwrenching rendition of “Bayan Ko”

LIKE EDSA AGAIN. Lea Salonga’s ‘Bayan Ko’ rendition transported people back to 1986 when the song became the anthem of a [...]

Aquino laid to rest, hailed as moral leader

Tens of thousands of supporters line up the route as the funeral cortege of former Philippine President Corazon Aquino passes by an avenue in Manila, Philippines Wednesday Aug. 5, 2009. Aquino’s body made its final journey through the capital Wednesday to be buried next to her assassinated husband in a culmination of grieving for the [...]

BREAKING NEWS: Bongbong, Imee Marcos arrive at President Cory Aquino’s wake

Imee Marcos (center) and Ferdinand Marcos Jr., children of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos whom former President Corazon Aquino toppled in a February 1986 “People Power” revolution, pay their last respects to Mrs. Aquino on the last day of her wake today at the Manila Cathedral in Intramuros. At right is Marcos’ wife Liza. AP
MANILA, [...]

President Corazon C. Aquino (1933-2009)

“I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.”
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Philippines mourns democracy icon Corazon Aquino

By OLIVER TEVES, Associated Press

MANILA, Philippines – Military honor guards carried former President Corazon Aquino’s flag-draped casket to a school gym Saturday for public viewing, as Filipinos mourned the beloved democracy icon who swept away a dictator and fought off seven coup attempts.
The accidental opposition leader — whose rise began only after her husband’s [...]