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De La Salle exacted revenge on UST and held off Laure to a season-low of eight points. “I think ‘yong lumabas sa amin dito is more of the consistency ng team following up doon sa mga previous matches namin na straight sets,” said De La Salle assistant coach Benson Bocboc. After dropping the third set, De La Salle led by as many as 11 points in the fourth frame, 16-5, to reach the second technical timeout with a sigh of relief capped by a Sharma soft tip. Ypril Tapia and Imee Hernandez paced UST with 12 points each while Camille Victoria added nine markers. Chen Tagaod and Jean Asis topscored for the Lady Tamaraws, who slipped to a 1-10 slate, with six points apiece.

READ: Govt debt hits record P12.7TTHE government's outstanding debt has increased by more than P80 billion, reaching a record P12.76 trillion at the end of April. Domestic debt expanded by 0.8 percent to P8.93 trillion from P8.86 trillion at the end of March. External debts widened by 0.4 percent, to P3.82 trillion from P3.81 trillion. Since the end of 2021, domestic debt has gone up by 8.8 percent, or P765.44 billion. Ordered released by Senate President Vicente Sotto 3rd were Mohit Dargani, the company's treasurer, and Linconn Ong, one of its directors.

CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao––Military authorities today announced the death of a suspected terror group member believed to be behind the bombings in central Mindanao. Government forces recovered from Saro and the slain gunman assorted firearms, bullets, and improvised bombs, Mundala added. A passenger of the bombed Yellow Bus Line has claimed that she saw a man boarding the bus in Mlang, Cotabato, and was seated at the rearmost part of the bus. Brigadier General Eduardo Gubat, 6th Infantry Division commander, assured the public that the military would continue pursuit operations against terrorists operating in Central Mindanao. He lauded the operating troops and directed them to maintain an offensive stance against local terrorists hiding in the marshland of Maguindanao.

Controversial San Juan assistant coach Yong Garcia and Valenzuela cager Lordy Casajeros have patched things up just a couple of days after the infamous spitting incident that marred the MPBL match between their respective teams last Monday. It can also be recalled that Casajeros even wanted the Games and Amusement Board to intervene in the incident and hand a ban to the Knights assistant coach. After the meeting, the two seemed to have buried the hatchet as they posed for a photo shaking hands in front of Estrada. “MPBL condemns any and all unsportsmanlike conduct, especially deliberate acts of violence. There’s no place for such act in this league and a similar offense would be dealt with even more severely” said MPBL Commissioner Kenneth Duremdes.

President Rodrigo Roa Duterte presides over the 54th Cabinet meeting at the Malacañan Palace on May 30, 2022. (UPDATE) THE Commission on Appointments (CA) on Wednesday bypassed -- for lack of quorum -- the ad interim appointments of five officials to three constitutional bodies. Zubiri noted that former president Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino 3rd gave the then incoming Duterte administration a "free hand to choose the choices of his constitutional commissions." Why not leave that to the incoming president? Sana (I hope) we can give that courtesy to the incoming president," he said in a briefing.

A 54-year-old man in Sunny Bay died after attempting to pull a 42-year-old woman playing in the surf back to shore but failed, with both washed away by the tide. The incident involving the duo falling into the sea and going missing was reported to police at about 1am on Thursday. Yet, Mak soon called for help from the man surnamed Ho and told him to pull her to shore after taking a few more steps further away. The two were then washed away by a strong current in the rain, and both were crying for help before the water covered them. Cheung recalled that the incident from Mak playing by the beach to both being washed away took only a few minutes.

TULSA, Okla. – A man armed with a rifle and handgun opened fire on Wednesday inside a medical building in Tulsa, Oklahoma, killing four people, police said, in the latest of a series of mass shootings in the United States. ADVERTISEMENTBrooks said police were trying to determine the man’s identity, but said he was aged between 35 and 40. The shooting occurred on the second floor of the campus’s Natalie Building, which contains doctor’s offices including an orthopedic center. The Tulsa shooting follows two mass shootings in May that shocked Americans and reignited debates about gun control. Last week, a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.

MANILA, Philippines — With the expected resumption of more in-person classes this year, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) on Thursday assured the “smooth processing” of international students who will be returning to resume their studies in the Philippines. BI has also reached out to school officials and groups who have expressed intent in admitting foreign applicants for the upcoming academic year. Over 35,000 international students, mostly in the medical field, were studying in the country prior to the global health crisis. The government in March permitted colleges and universities in areas under Alert Level 1 to hold in-person classes with 100 percent of the classroom’s capacity. RELATED STORIES:CHED: Colleges may decide capacity limitsOver 300 universities conducting in-person classes — CHED/MUFSubscribe to our daily newsletter By providing an email address.

Hong Thai Travel Services launched an eight-day tour to Bangkok and Pattaya in Thailand, which cost HK$15,000 with the quarantine hotel fee in Hong Kong covered. The tour included visits to Suphattra Land, Pattaya Elephant Village, Nong Nooch Tropical Garden, Swiss Sheep Farm Pattaya, Pattaya Floating Market, and Siam Premium Outlet. The tour fee covered the service fee for the tour guide, nuclear acid test within 48 hours before returning to Hong Kong, airport tax, fuel cost, travel insurance, and seven-night quarantine hotel in Hong Kong. Customers who would like to book the quarantine hotel on their own could also choose another eight-day package including similar places to visit at HK$10,699. Hong Thai said they have received many inquiries on travel to Thailand in recent weeks, believing that citizens are becoming more confident in traveling abroad.

Sierra Valley Gardens’ exterior aerial view CONTRIBUTED PHOTOCAINTA has enjoyed a boom in recent years, with the influx of business opportunities in real estate and business, successfully becoming a highly urbanized first-class municipality. "Cainta is proving to be a popular place to invest in real estate, thanks in large part to its proximity to Metro Manila and the continued rise of commercial establishments and transport hubs. We, at RLC Residences through Sierra Valley Gardens, want to provide the convenience of being in the city while enjoying the quiet of suburban living," said RLC Residences Marketing Head Karen Cesario. In fact, in the 2021 rankings of the Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index (CMCI), Cainta ranked as the top municipality. Cainta is the location of Sierra Valley, an 18-hectare mixed-use property of Robinsons Land, and home to Sierra Valley Gardens by RLC Residences.

CONTRIBUTED PHOTOEASTERN Communications, a premier telecommunications company, received international recognition as it bagged two awards at the recently concluded 2022 Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards. The company's 'Stride Strong' campaign won a Bronze Stevie and was recognized in the Innovative Management in Consumer Product and Service Industries category. The overall campaign emphasized the importance of establishing stronger connections with businesses and moving forward in the face of a global pandemic. The Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards are the only business awards program to recognize innovation in the workplace in all 29 nations of the Asia-Pacific region. The Stevie Awards are widely recognized for being the world's premier business awards, conferring recognition for achievement in programs such as The International Business Awards for 20 years.

This modifying phrase commonly takes one of these five forms — a prepositional phrase, appositive phrase, infinitive phrase, gerund phrase, or participial phrase. The prepositional phrase "in Philippine senatorial lineups" serves as an adjectival phrase modifying the subject "the major political parties" of the main clause. The infinitive phrase "to improve sales" serves as an adverbial phrase modifying the subject "the company" in the main clause. It's called the nominative absolute or absolute clause, which some grammarians call the absolute phrase instead. Rather, the absolute clause modifies the entire main clause, adding information or providing context to it.

The trial by China National Biotec Group, which produces the Sinopharm vaccine, will take place at the community vaccination center at Sun Yat Sen Memorial Park Sports Centre in Sai Ying Pun. They will be further randomly split into three groups, with one receiving the original strain vaccine and the other two receiving Omicron-targeting vaccines produced by two manufacturing plants. "The biggest challenge is that Omicron can evade the immunity response and that immunity levels of existing vaccines against Omicron are significantly lowered, reducing protection for humans," said Hung, necessitating a vaccine to prevent the next outbreak. Sinovac has also been developing an Omicron vaccine since November. It has applied for clinical trials and received approval mid-April after the vaccine was proved to be safe and effective in animal tests.

AFP PHOTOPOKHARA, Nepal: Nepali rescuers have retrieved the bodies of all 22 passengers from a plane that crashed in the Himalayas, authorities said on Tuesday as they began identifying the victims. It suffered its last fatal accident in 2016 on the same route when a plane with 23 onboard crashed into a mountainside. The European Union has banned all Nepali airlines from its airspace over safety concerns. In March 2018, a US-Bangla Airlines plane crash-landed near Kathmandu's notoriously difficult international airport, killing 51 people and seriously injuring 20. That accident was Nepal's deadliest since 1992, when all 167 people aboard a Pakistan International Airlines plane died when it crashed on approaching the Kathmandu airport.