NBC will air The 2010 MISS UNIVERSE PAGEANT live from Las Vegas on Monday, August 23, 2010.
Miss Universe 2009, Stefanía Fernández from Venezuela will pass the crown among the 83 contestants.
July 29, 2010
Miss Universe 2010 at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, Las Vegas
NBC will air The 2010 MISS UNIVERSE PAGEANT live from Las Vegas on Monday, August 23, 2010.
Miss Universe 2009, Stefanía Fernández from Venezuela will pass the crown among the 83 contestants.
January 11, 2010
2010 Philippine's Vice Presidentiable: Mar Roxas
Manuel "Mar" Araneta Roxas II was born born May 13, 1957 and a Senator of the Philippines. He is the son of former Senator Gerry Roxas, and the grandson of former President Manuel Roxas.
A graduate of the Wharton School of Economics, Roxas worked as an investment banker, mobilizing venture capital funds for small and medium enterprises. He served as the Representative of the 1st District of Capiz from 1993 to 2000. His stint as Congressman was cut short after he was appointed by President Joseph Estrada as Secretary of Trade and Industry. He resigned from the position at the height of the EDSA Revolution of 2001 and was later re-appointed by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in her new Cabinet. He resigned again to run for a Senate seat in the 2004 Philippine election. He was elected as Senator with 19 million votes, the highest ever garnered by a national candidate in any Philippine election.
2010 Philippine's Vice Presidentiable: Loren Legarda
Lorna Regina Bautista Legarda was born January 28, 1960, is a Filipino broadcast journalist and politician and better known as Loren Legarda. In the 2004 Philippines general election, she ran for the position of Vice-President as the running mate of Fernando Poe, Jr. As of 2007, she is serving her second term as an incumbent senator in the Philippines. As a journalist, she had received the national honor of the Ten Outstanding Young Men and Women (TOYM) award and for her humanitarian and environmental work she was named one of the Global Leaders for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland and a United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) laureate included in the Global 500 Roll of Honour in 2001. In 2004, she became an Environment Awardee of the Priyadarshni Academy in Mumbai, India.
In 2008 Loren was appointed as UNISDR Asia Pacific Regional Champion for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation. She recently participated in the Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction, BBC World Debate and Forum on the Human Impact of Climate Change in Geneva, Switzerland.
During the launch of her humanitarian program Lingkod Loren in Luneta last October 23, 2009, Loren Legarda declared her intention to run for vice-president in 2010 under NPC. Recently, NP Presidential candidate Manny Villar formally declared his team-up with Legarda for the 2010 Elections.
January 04, 2010
2010 Philippine's Vice Presidentiables: Bayani Fernando
Bayani Fernando was born in San Juan, Rizal on July 25, 1946 and He is the former Secretary of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA). He finished college with a degree on Mechanical Engineering at the Mapua Institute of Technology.
A professional Mechanical Engineer. He is the founder of the BF GROUP OF COMPANIES, dealing with construction, steel, manufacturing and real estate. He has built the country’s tallest building, shopping malls, industrial and residential subdivisions and facilities. He is a former Secretary of the Department of Public Works and Highways.
He was a three-term City Mayor of Marikina, who transformed the former municipality into one of the best-managed cities and a paradigm of responsive and effective governance. During his incumbency, Marikina City was accorded 55 citations and distinctions
Philippines Upcoming Movies / Star Cinema Upcoming Films of 2010
The new and Upcoming Filipino(Tagalog) movies to watch out for this 2010 in Philippine cinema.
The Star Cinema Upcoming Movie releases of 2010
Paano Na Kaya? is an upcoming 2010 romantic/comedy, Filipino film which stars popular love team Kim Chiu and Gerald Anderson to be produced and released by Star Cinema and directed by Ruel Bayani.
The Main cast are Kim Chiu as Mae and Gerald Anderson as Bogz and the Supporting cast are Robi Domingo, Jon Avila, Alwyn Uytingco and IC Mendoza with Special Participation of Zsa Zsa Padilla.
Next Attraction International/Hollywood movies in SM Cinemas
Coming Soon International/Hollywood movies in SM Cinemas
Source
The Star Cinema Upcoming Movie releases of 2010
Paano Na Kaya? is an upcoming 2010 romantic/comedy, Filipino film which stars popular love team Kim Chiu and Gerald Anderson to be produced and released by Star Cinema and directed by Ruel Bayani.
The Main cast are Kim Chiu as Mae and Gerald Anderson as Bogz and the Supporting cast are Robi Domingo, Jon Avila, Alwyn Uytingco and IC Mendoza with Special Participation of Zsa Zsa Padilla.
Next Attraction International/Hollywood movies in SM Cinemas
Coming Soon International/Hollywood movies in SM Cinemas
Source
January 03, 2010
2010 Philippine's Presidentiables: Richard "Dick" Gordon
Richard "Dick" Juico Gordon was born on August 5, 1945, in Castillejos, Zambales, Philippines He is head of the Philippine National Red Cross, and senator of the Republic of the Philippines. His parents are James Leonard Tagle Gordon and Amelia Juico Gordon, who were both mayors of Olongapo City.
Early life and career
In 1954, he completed his elementary education at the Colegio de San Juan de Letran in Manila and on 1962, he completed his secondary education at the Ateneo de Manila University. He stayed in Ateneo and completed his tertiary education, earning a degree of Bachelor of Arts, major in History and Government in 1966. He was a student leader having been consistently elected president of his class. On 1975, he graduated with a degree of Bachelor of Laws at the University of the Philippines College of Law after taking a break in 1971 to run for the Constitutional Convention. Prior to that he topped the 1969 UP Student Council elections leading to the First Quarter Storm and joined the Upsilon Sigma Phi in 1968. From 1966 to 1967 he became a Brand Manager for Procter and Gamble Philippines. Towards the end of the 1960s, he helped his mother Amelia run the government of Olongapo after his father James Leonard Gordon was assassinated. With the declaration of Martial Law after finishing his law degree and passing the bar, he became an Associate of ACCRA Law Offices.
ELEMENTARY
| Level | School | Year Graduated |
| Elementary education | San Juan de Letran College | 195 |
| Level | School | Year Graduated |
| Secondary education | Ateneo de Manila University | 1962 |
| Degree | School | Year Graduated |
| AB History and Government | Ateneo de Manila University | 1966 |
| Bachelor of Laws | University of the | 1975 |
| Position | Office | Years |
| Secretary | Department of Tourism | February 2001-January 2004 |
| Founding chairman | | 1992-1998 |
| Mayor | | 1980-1993 |
| Associate | | 1975-1979 |
| Director | Kong Commercial Philippines Inc. | 1974-1975 |
| Delegate | Constitutional Convention | 1971 |
| Brand manager | Procter and Gamble | 1966-1967 |
| Organization | Position |
| Philippine National Red Cross | Governor |
| UP Law Alumni Association | Director |
| Integrated Bar of the | Member |
| Upsilon Sigma Phi Alumni Association | Member |
| Ateneo de Manila University Alumni Association | Director |
| Presidential Bases Conversion Committee | Member |
| Pinatubo Commission | Commissioner |
| Nacionalista Party | Regional chairman |
| Citizen’s Legal Aid Society of the | Member |
| Party of Philippine Progress | Former national chairman, training committee youth arm |
| Mt. Pinatubo Hidden Temple Shrine and Community Foundation Inc. | Co-founder |
| Olongapo City Foundation Inc. | Co-founder |
| James L. Gordon Foundation Inc. | Co-founder |
| Bagumbayan-Volunteers for a New | Founding chairman |
Early political career
In 1971, while still a law student at UP, he was elected as a delegate of the constitutional convention that drafted the 1973 Constitution representing the first district of Zambales. He was the youngest delegate of the convention and swore former President Diosdado Macapagal into office as Chairman of the Convention. In 1980, he ran as mayor of Olongapo City. In 1983, Olongapo became a highly urbanized City. Having been a victim of crime with the assassination of his father then Mayor James Leonard T. Gordon in 1967, Gordon managed to transform Olongapo from a “sin city” to “model city” with various innovations in local governance namely color coded transport system, public markets’ expansion, integrated solid waste management program, vendors’ cooperatives, community organizations and many other public and community development programs. In 1986, Gordon and Joseph Estrada became two of the local executives who refused to vacate their positions after the government reorganization by President Corazon Aquino. Gordon gave way for the Aquino appointed Officer-In-Charge after a formal written directive from the Executive Secretary representing Aquino was issued. In 1986 he joined Philippine Vice President Salvador Laurel in reorganizing the Nacionalista Party around the country. They campaigned for a "No" vote on the 1987 Constitution framed by the Aquino appointed constitutional convention. In 1988, he was elected as mayor with the help of the Nationalist People's Coalition a breakaway of the Nacionalista Party under Eduardo "Danding" Cojuangco.
U.S. Naval Base in Subic Bay
On September 1991, Gordon led a nationwide rally for the retention of the U.S. Bases in the Philippines. The U.S. naval base in Subic Bay was a major income generating client of Olongapo City. In the same year, Olongapo experienced the greatest volcanic cataclysm of the century when Mt. Pinatubo erupted and dumped 14 inches of wet ash on the City. However, the Philippine Senate voted 12-11 to reject the extension of a bases treaty. Determined not to be defeated, Gordon and the citizens of Olongapo fully mobilized and lobbied for 3 months to include the free port concept into the Bases Conversion Act which hitherto had been hastily cobbled together without consulting the people directly affected. They succeeded in their first unusual act of self-empowerment and volunteerism when the special provisions for the establishment of the Subic Bay Freeport Zone under the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) were included in R.A. 7227 in March 1992. On November 24, 1992, the U.S. Navy completed its withdrawal from the facility and its conversion for civilian and commercial use began. Volunteerism and the high civic spirit of the host community marked the pioneering efforts at conversion.
SBMA & Subic Bay Freeport
In the 1992 local elections, Gordon won a landslide victory and was reelected as mayor of Olongapo City. 1993, a citizen questioned Gordon's dual duty as mayor of Olongapo City and as chairman of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority. The Supreme Court decided that Gordon must hold one position. Gordon decided to vacate his position as Mayor and assumed the position of SBMA chairman in full capacity. In the 1995 local elections, his wife Katherine, a three term Congresswoman, was elected mayor of Olongapo. In the 1996 APEC Summit, 18 world leaders were impressed with the facility and Subic became a new investment hub in Southeast Asia. Bluechip companies like FedEx Express, Enron, Coastal Petroleum now El Paso Corporation, Taiwan computer giant Acer and France telecoms company Thomson SA invested US$2.1 Billion in the freeport reinvigorating the economy and creating 70,000 jobs replacing those lost during the US Navy withdrawal.
1998 forced removal
During the late 1990s, Gordon became one of Joseph Estrada's vocal critics over differences on the US Naval Base. After winning by a large margin during the 1998 presidential elections, President Estrada issued Administrative Order No. 1 removing Gordon as Chairman of SBMA. Estrada appointed Felicito Payumo, Gordon's critic and congressman of Bataan as new chairman. The removal process was not easy. Hundreds of volunteers barricated the gates of SBMA and Gordon locked himself inside the SBMA Administrative Office Building 229. The issue sparked the interest local and foreign press known as the Showdown at Subic. Gordon filed for a temporary restraining order before the local court. The local court of Olongapo granted Gordon's request but Payumo's party filed an appeal before the Court of Appeals. The CA reversed the local court's ruling and it was affirmed by the Supreme Court G.R. No. 134171. With the Supreme Court decision, Gordon called Payumo and turned over the reins of SBMA at the Subic Bay Yacht Club two months later on 3 September 1998. Together with the Subic volunteers, they cleaned up the facility.
Philippine National Red Cross and Department of Tourism
Since 1986, Gordon was elected as governor of the Philippine National Red Cross, taking active roles in rescue, relief and rehabilitation in various disasters from shipwrecks, typhoons, 1990 earthquake in Cabanatuan, 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo, 2004 landslides in Aurora, Quezon and 2006 Ginsaugun, Southern Leyte mudslide and the PhilSports Arena stampede. Currently he is the chairman as well as a Member of the Governing Board of the International Federation of the Red Cross. On January 2001, Gordon actively participated in the second EDSA Revolution that led to the removal of Joseph Estrada from the presidency. Newly installed President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo appointed Gordon as secretary of the Department of Tourism. With his experience as a former brand manager of Procter and Gamble Philippines and chairman of SBMA, Gordon placed the Philippines in the international tourism map by actively marketing the Philippines in several tourism expositions and road shows with the Wow Philippines campaign strategy winning awards at ITB and WTM. From 2002, after four years of negative growth and in spite of threats of terror post 9-11, Abu Sayyaf kidnappings, SARS, Oakwood Mutiny, tourism arrival increased heavily. He also encouraged domestic tourism by holding regional events and having provincial destinations showcased at Intramuros and the rationalization of Holiday Economics. He held the position until January 2004.
Senate
In the 2004 national elections, Gordon ran as senator of the Philippines. In the initial public opinion survey, Filipinos were lukewarm on electing Gordon as senator. But with his very positive personality and achievements aired in TV and radio advertisements, public opinion changed and Gordon won and received the fifth highest number of votes from the electorate.
During the 13th Congress (2004–2007), as Chairman of the Senate Committee of Constitutional Amendments and Revision of Laws, he upheld the supremacy of the Constitution at all times. Though he may not have voted for the ratification of the 1987 Constitution, he took an oath to preserve and defend it. He insisted on the lawful process of Charter Change only according to the process set forth in the Constitution. He opposed the method of Constituent Assembly or "con-ass" initiated by President Arroyo and House Speaker Jose de Venecia, Jr., which was possible in the 1935 Constitution but unlawful in the current Constitution, as well as the dubious Sigaw ng Bayan People's Initiative and was one of the triumphant parties in the case of Lambino and Aumentado vs. COMELEC, G.R. No. 174153, October 25, 2006.
He also preserved the separation of powers in government and asserted the Senate’s constitutional right and duty to conduct inquiries in aid of legislation against Executive Order No. 464 in Senate, et al. vs. Ermita, G.R. No. 169777, April 20, 2006, and Executive Order No. 1 in Sabio vs. Gordon, et al., G.R. No. 174340, October 17, 2006.
He was also responsible for the passage of Republic Act No. 9369 — or the Automated Elections System to obviate cheating and post election controversies and protests that hound Philippine elections.
On April 9, 2008, Araw ng Kagitingan or Day of Valor in Bataan, President Arroyo signed into law Republic Act No. 9499- Gordon's Veterans Bill. The Filipino World War II Veterans Pensions and Benefits Act of 2008 amends Sections 10 and 11 of Republic Act No. 6948, as amended, by removing the prohibition against our veterans receiving benefits from the United States government. Before the law was signed, the Philippine government benefits of veterans would be revoked once they were granted benefits by the United States government. Because of Gordon’s advocacy and persistence, this prohibition is now eliminated, and Filipino veterans will now be able to receive any form of benefit from any foreign government without losing the benefits given to them by the Philippine government.
He was the principal author of the National Tourism Policy Act of 2009 or Republic Act 9593, declaring a national policy for tourism as an engine of Investment and employment, growth and national development that was signed by President Arroyo in Cebu on May 12, 2009 and witnessed by the country's tourism private sector.
Presidential Candidacy
On August 6, 2007, Gordon announced that he was considering contesting the Presidential election scheduled for 2010. He also said that he would be organizing a new political coalition from among the parties that have emerged over the past decade, as, in his view, the two traditional parties, his own Nacionalista Party and the Liberal Party, had "nothing to offer." [1] A CLSA Asia Pacific Markets Country report on the Philippines meanwhile expressed the opinion that Gordon "was believed to be a strong presidential material as early as 1992. His claim to fame was his work to turnaround [sic] Subic Base after Mount Pinatubo’s eruption. After talks with Bayani Fernando, whom eventually agreed to be his Vice-President, they formed the Transformers tandem, and are currently official candidates.
Source: Wikipedia and Congress Database
2010 Philippine's Presidentiables: Gilberto "Gibô" Teodoro Jr.
Gilberto Eduardo Gerardo "Gilbert"/"Gibô" Cojuangco Teodoro Jr. was born June 14, 1964 and a former Secretary of National Defense of the Philippines, having assumed the post in August 2007 and resigning last 15 November 2009. From 1998 to 2007 he was a member of the House of Representatives, representing the First District of Tarlac province. In March 2009 he announced his intention to run for President of the Philippines in the May 2010 elections.
He is the only child of former Social Security System administrator Gilberto Teodoro, Sr. and former Batasang Pambansa member Mercedes Cojuangco-Teodoro. He is also the nephew of Eduardo Cojuangco, Jr., chairman of San Miguel Corporation.
Gibo is also the cousin of Noynoy Aquino. While Teodoro's mother Mercedes Cojuangco is the first cousin of Aquino's mother, former President Corazon Aquino, both families have always been on different sides of the political fence since the 1960's. During the time of then strongman Ferdinand Marcos, Teodoro's father served as Social Security System administrator while Noynoy’s father, the late senator Benigno Aquino Jr. was a leading opposition leader.
Teodoro, who holds distinct memberships in the Integrated Bar of the Philippines, UP Alumni Association, UP Law Alumni Association, Harvard Alumni Association and the Harvard Law Alumni Association, is also a licensed commercial pilot and a Colonel in the Philippine Air Force Reserve.
Education
Teodoro spent his grade school and high school education at Xavier School.
Teodoro attained a Bachelor's Degree in Commerce from De La Salle University in 1984. In 1989, he completed his law studies at the University of the Philippines, where he was awarded the Dean's Medal for Academic Excellence. In the same year, he topped the Philippine Bar exams.
For seven years, he honed his skills as a lawyer in the EP Mendoza Law firm. He went to the Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts for his Master of Laws and completed it in 1997. He was also admitted to the State Bar of New York during the same year.
ELEMENTARY
| Level | School | Year Graduated |
| Elementary education | Xavier School | 1977 |
| Level | School | Year Graduated |
| Secondary education | Xavier School | 1981 |
| Degree | School | Year Graduated |
| BS Commerce | De La Salle University, Manila | 1984 |
| Bachelor of Laws | University of the Philippines | 1989 |
| Degree | School | Year Graduated |
| Master of Laws | Harvard Law School | 1997 |
Career History
| Position | Office | Years |
| Representative, 1st district, Tarlac | House of Representatives | 1998-present |
| Lawyer | Estelito Mendoza Law Office | 1990-1997 |
| Chairman and chief executive officer | Suricon Resources Corp. | 1995-1996 |
| Founder | Evercrest Golf and Country Club | 1993 |
| Provincial board member | Tarlac | 1980-1986 |
| Youth council president | Tarlac | 1980-1985 |
| Organization | Position |
| Integrated Bar of the Philippines | Member |
| University of the Philippines Alumni Association | Member |
| University of the Philippines Law Alumni Association | Member |
| Harvard Alumni Association | Member |
| Harvard Law Alumni Association | Member |
| Philippine Military Academy Alumni Association | Honorary member |
| Philippine Air Force AC AA | Honorary member |
| Philippine National Police Foundation Inc. | Chairman |
Political career
Congressman
From 1998 to 2007 he was a house representative of the First District of Tarlac province. He assumed the position of Assistant Majority Leader in the 11th Congress and head of the Nationalist People's Coalition House members. He was also a member of the House contingent to the Legislative-Executive Development Advisory Council. He is a good friend of Jordan S.
Following his three terms in office—the maximum number allowed by the constitution—he was succeeded by his wife, Monica Prieto-Teodoro.
Secretary of National Defense
Teodoro was appointed Secretary of the Department of National Defense in August 2007 at the age of 43, the youngest person to ever hold the position.
2010 presidential candidate
In March 2009 he announced his intention to run for President of the Philippines in the May 2010 election.Months earlier, he quit his old party Nationalist People's Coalition to join the merged administration party Lakas-Kampi-CMD and cast his name in the ruling party's contenders for the 2010 elections.
On September 16, 2009, voting 42-5 through secret balloting, the executive committee of Lakas-Kampi officially selected Teodoro as their party's presidential standard bearer for the May 2010 elections, edging out the other nominee, MMDA Chairman Bayani Fernando. The announcement was made by Lakas-Kampi Secretary General Gabriel Claudio after a deliberation that lasted for approximately an hour.
Head of Lakas-Kampi-CMD
On November 20, Macapagal-Arroyo announced that she had resigned her post as president of the Lakas-Kampi-CMD and handed over the presidency to Teodoro[
Source: Wikipedia and http://www.gibo.ph/
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