The UNFPA on Friday disclosed that its Philippine office raised $28.5 million in the year to date, and that the money will be used to promote reproductive and maternal health, one of the country’s Millennium Development Goals. “For the current seventh country program which started this year and will end in 2016, around $28.5 million has been mobilized and we are expecting more,” UNFPA country representative Ugochi Daniels told reporters in a press conference.

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<p>Ian Somerhalder is now on his way to Manila to shoot the upcoming campaign of a clothing brand.</p>

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The defense panel on Friday assured the public that the number of dollar accounts being attributed to impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona is only three, not 82 as reported by Ombusdman Conchita Carpio-Morales when she testified earlier this week before the Senate impeachment court.

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CEBU CITY — Police arrested late Thursday the person who allegedly helped the killer of Carcar City Mayor Nicepuro Apura’s youngest son escape.

Jethro Lapiña, 23, was nabbed in his house in Barangay Valladolid around 9:30 p.m. Thursday when policemen went there. Police said Lapiña helped Jay Boy Lauron, suspected killer of Carl Vinson Apura, escape.

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The camp of Chief Justice Renato Corona is mum on their prepartions for the chief magistrate’s testimony on Tuesday. One thing is for sure, though, they want to make sure that Corona will be appreciated as a ‘sincere, candid and straightforward witness.’

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