Is Manila The Next Las Vegas? (Video)

The first of four new casino resorts opens in Manila’s Entertainment City, as operators hope to lure in high-rollers with lower taxes and warm hospitality.

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Typhoon Survivors Helped Across River in Philippines Rescue Mission (Video)

Rescue teams used cable lines to help locals make their way across a river in the Philippines after a typhoon trapped them in their villages.

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Child Survives Being Buried In Mudslide for Over 24 Hours (Video)

Rescue workers treat a toddler who was buried in mud after Typhoon Bopha swept through the southern part of the Philippines in the aftermath of the most powerful typhoon to hit the country this year.

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8 Year Old Fitri Cerado Signs Christina Aguilera’s Hurt VIDEO

It’s quite a common deal now to see YouTube shooting unknown artists to stardom and this eight year old Filipino girl is no different!

8 year old Fitri Cerado has no doubt a great voice. Born in Indonesia, Fitri has already won several awards including winning the Indonesian talent TV show competition last year in 2011.

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FHM Philippines Racist Cover Featuring Actress Bela Padilla Axed As It Stirred Enormous Controversy (VIDEO)

FHM Philippines has decided to nix the cover of its latest issue from the shelves following a huge ruckus created by readers. The original cover features light-skinned Filipino Actress Bela Padilla in a pink swimsuit posing amidst darker-skinned models wearing black bikinis and boasting a tagline, “Stepping Out Of The Shadows.”

The cover obviously raised complaints from readers as they talked about Racial Discrimination and offended many. Causing many readers to declare that the cover was strongly ‘racist.’

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Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte Punches Sheriff

Mayor Sara Duterte of Davao City, Philippines is an instant internet and Pilipino celebrity – after she punched the sheriff who was responsible for demolishing the shanties in in the city of Davao.

The Mayor had rushed to the district of Agdao when she learned that the Sherriff was ordered to tear down the shanty town, home to 217 families, inside a compound. She tried reasoning with the sheriff in charge, Abe Andres, who was under court orders to tear them down and asked for the demolition to be delayed by just two hours, but the sheriff denied the request. This prompted her to punch the sheriff not once, but thrice. MORE