Kid bullies
This wire service news says the bullies victimizing schoolchildren in Yamagata, Japan, are gone after the schoolkids they had bullied took up lessons in self-defense.
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Before I proceed, I take this opportunity to extend my condolences to my good friend Choy Torralba and family on the passing away of their mother Lourdes Rosal Torralba. I joined Choy in mourning the demise of his mother while I quote this line from John 6:35. "I myself am the bread of life. No one who comes to me shall ever be hungry. No one who believes in me shall ever thirst."
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OFW cash remittances continue to rise, according to the Banko Sentral. In the first half of the year alone OFWs remitted to the country $13.1 billion. That's 5.6 percent growth over the inflow for the same period last year. So who was that congressman who wanted to stop the sending of Pinoy workers abroad because they're giving kuno the Phl a bad image?
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Sen. Grace Poe seems to be teasing Mar Roxas and the Liberals: "come and get." Observers say she seems to be so sure of the pedestal she' perching on right now, forgetting what the Bible says: "Pride goeth before destruction and an haughty spirit before a fall (Proverbs 16:18).
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I received this e-mail from a reader who signed his name only as Undo Sr. "What happened to the much talked about Cebu BRT project?" he asked. 'The way things go, it looks like this BRT thing will continue to be a dream....and Cebuanos will wake up one morning to see the BRT gone, replaced by another BRT, the Bicycle Rapid Transit."
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Nardo (family name withheld) who used to work as helper in a Vulcanizing shop is now employed in an auto repair shop in Jakarta. He got the job there after his Tesda training in Cebu, according to his former employer in the vulcanising shop.
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