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‘Jumping and Flowin’ group class

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KFMO organizes ‘Gergean’

MANILA: Ipasasara ni Davao City Mayor RodrigoDuterte ang Kongreso sakaling siya ang maging

susunod na Presidente ng Pilipinas.Inihayag ito ni Duterte na panauhingpandangal sa ika-17 anibersaryo ngVolunteers Against Crime andCorruption (VACC) na ginanap sa AFPCommissioned Officers Club (AFPCOC)

sa Camp Aguinaldo kung saan binigyang parangalang Pilipino STAR Ngayon at The Philippine STARbilang mga outstanding tabloid at broadsheet news-papers. Ayon kay Duterte, dodoblehin din niya angsuweldo ng mga pulis, sundalo at mga guro habangang kanilang mga dependents ay nakasisiguro nglibreng pagpasok sa kolehiyo. Inihayag pa ni Duterte,ang pondo para rito ay magmumula sa Kongreso nakaniyang ipabubuwag para magamit at pakinaban-gan ang maraming pera rito. Iginit ni Duterte na kungmabibigyan siya ng pagkakataon na maging punongehekutibo ay isusulong niya ang death penalty parasa mga drug offenders.—PSN

Kongreso ipasasarako: Duterte

MANILA: The Philippines expects a United Nations tri-bunal to rule in its favour in an increasingly fraught dis-pute with China over territories in the South China Sea,a presidential spokeswoman said yesterday.

Manila will argue its position against Beijing’s claimover most of the resource-rich sea at The Hague onJuly 7 to 13. China has refused to participate in thearbitration proceedings. The upcoming hearings willdecide whether the tribunal has jurisdiction over thecase. “We prepared a strong case. We believe we standon strong legal ground,” presidential spokeswomanAbigail Valte told government radio. “We believe thetribunal will look at our case with favour. We are confi-dent of the Philippine position on this matter.”

Philippine foreign secretary Albert del Rosario willlead a government delegation to The Hague, assistedby US-based lawyers, foreign affairs spokesmanCharles Jose said. If the Netherlands-based courtdecides it has jurisdiction, Jose said the Philippineswould be asked to argue the merits of its case inanother round of hearings.

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Philippines expects to win UN South China Sea case

MANILA: Philippine police have filed murdercharges against the owner and crew of a passen-ger ferry that capsized and left 59 dead, an offi-cial said yesterday.

The charges were filed late on Friday in thecentral city of Ormoc over the sinking of the KimNirvana ship, according to regional police headChief Superintendent Asher Dolina.

An initial police investigation and interviewswith survivors showed the vessel abruptlyturned in waters off the central port of Ormocon Thursday, causing it to capsize, Dolina toldAFP. “They were not careful, showing there wasan intent to kill. They were reckless on purpose,”Dolina said.

A total of nineteen people were charged,

including ship operator Joge Bong Zarco, cap-tain Warren Oliviero, and 17 crew members,according to Dolina.

Under Philippine law, murder is punishableby up to 40 years imprisonment.

The police investigation is separate from acoast guard inquiry, which will primarily deter-mine the cause of the mishap.

However, the coast guard may also recom-mend criminal and administrative charges.

“We filed the charges as soon as we couldbecause we don’t want the suspects to leave thecountry,” Dolina said.

Fifty-six people were confirmed dead fromthe sinking, Ormoc city councillor GodiardoEbcas told AFP .—AFP

‘Manila charges crew, owners of sunk ferry with murder’

ORMOC: Rescuers battle rough seas as they search for survivors from the ill-fated ferry near the pier in Ormoc City, centralPhilippines on Friday. The death toll from the Philippines’ ferry disaster rose to 59 as rescuers brought more bodies ashore toanguished families, including 10-year-old survivor Gilbert de la Cruz who wailed in despair as the corpse of his one-year-old brotherwas recovered. —AFP

ORMOC: A handout photo shows captainWarren Oliviero of the Kim Nirvana shipin central city of Ormoc. —AFP

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KUWAIT: Pinoy assistant instructors in cooperation withPilates and More Gym held an hour and half workout featur-ing power packed “Jumping” paired with broad lower bodyworkout “Flowin” Friday morning at the Pilates and MoreGym located at the mezzanine floor of Emall in Hawally.Twenty five participants both instructors and non instructorsattended the so called event and led by four highly competi-tive and certified fitness trainers. The event kicked off with abrief introduction by the main organizer and founder of theGym Team followed by safety instructions delivered by train-ers Janice Capili and Marissa Tambis. The warm-up segmentcomposed of low impact routines on specially made trampo-lines and later progressed to set of advanced moves onincreased music tempo. A brief combination of abdominal

workout and stretching ended the first segment. A shortbreak followed after the workout. Instructors MartisaVendiola, Roxanne Samiana and Olivia Ledesma gave shortinformation of Flowin, its benefits and effects in toning thelower body. Certificates of participation were awarded toattendees by the trainers. “We congratulate those who cameto participate in the event and thank the Gym Team forspearheading the project. I also thank the trainers for havingshown tremendous enthusiasm sharing the expertise to theattendees. We make sure that Pilates and More provide onlythe best services relating to fitness and health” commentedOperations Manager of Pilates and More Aneta Pietruzak.Flowin is one single exercise that activates several musclegroups, rendering functional strength training. The set-up

with pads allows exercises to be performed with differentpoints of support, such as elbows and knees or hands andfeet. By using different points of support and adjusting theworkout according to ability, which enables everyone toreach maximum results, regardless of age or training back-ground. On the same set-up static stabilization of specificjoints while training, and consequently vary activated mus-cles, from dynamic (mover) to synergistic (assisting) to static(stabilizing). Jumping Improves cardiovascular health,Increased leg strength and perceived as easier than tradition-al aerobic activities. Pilates and More also announced thatPhilippines top fitness instructress and pioneer VivianZapanta will hold Stott Pilates training class and certifica-tions for their gym instructors in coming month.

Pinoy assistant instructors hold ‘Jumping and Flowin’ group class

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“We have prepared well enough for these oral arguments,” Josetold reporters. The Philippines is among the most vocal critics ofChina’s South China Sea claims, which also overlap with those ofVietnam, Taiwan, Malaysia and Brunei.

Beijing has reinforced its claim by building artificial islands ondisputed reefs.

Dwarfed by China in terms of economic and military might, thePhilippines has turned to arbitration as it strengthened militaryalliances with the United States and Japan.

The Philippine navy held separate naval drills with theirAmerican and Japanese counterparts last month.

The flashpoint South China Sea hosts major sea lanes over vastmineral reserves.—AFP

MANILA: Activists hold a rally in front of the Chinese consulate in Manila’s financial district recently to protestChina’s reclamation works in the South China Sea, which the protesters have displaced Filipino fishermen. —AFP

KUWAIT: The Filipino Badminton Committee (FBC’s) 58thBadminton Ramadan Cup tournament kicked last Friday theKuwait Disabled Sports Club in Hawally. The event is sponsoredby HPI and Pag-Ibig Fund. For your game sked and more infor-mation about the tournament please contact FBC PresidentRegine Panesal and MAKULAY President Romano Roman at Tel.66456109 or -67733279/97200810.

Here’s the result of recent event:

FBC’s 58th Ramadan tourney continues

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KUWAIT: The fifth season for the 5” 8’ division, and fourth sea-son for the inter-company division continues at Al-NadiKhaitan Sporting Club every Friday organized by the PhilippineBasketball League in Kuwait (PBLK) headed by BasketballCommissioner Gina Mills. Teams for the Intercompany division

include H.P.I HYPERIANS, HEISCO, BODYBUILDING, KAI, AL YAS-RA, ONTIME, KUWAIT ENGINEERING OFFICE, BANTA, KUWAITENERGY, KUWAIT STEEL, KALEXCO and PAPAZAJ TEAM while5”8’ Division teams are: 3X3 TEA, BANGAS KUWAIT, GILAS TEAM,TRIBALLERS TEAM, YOUSEF POWER TEAM, ELITE TEAM, STAR

POWER TEAM, ADIKMIXCLAN TEAM, COC BOIZ TEAM, BOYSAVENUE TEAM, FKTC ILONGGO TEAM, BAD BANANAS TEAM,and BROTHERHOOD TEAM. For details and schedule of gamesplease contact tournament head Harvie Dagdagan ( Tel97644343), like or add their Facebook account PBLK.

PBLK’s inter-company, 5” 8’ divisions continues

—Photos by Harvie Dagdagan

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KFMO organizes ‘Gergean’KUWAIT: In the middle of the Holy Month of Ramadan, children celebrate ‘Gergean’ a unique Kuwaiti tradition where kids dressed up in traditional garb, carrying theirgergean bags and go around chanting and singing in exchange of candies and other treats from their elders. Kuwaiti households usually organize parties for this specialoccasion. Last Friday, 16th Day of Ramadan, the Kuwait Filipino Mother Organizations (KFMO) organized the very same event attended by their kids, relatives and friends.Congratulations KFMO headed by President Sarah (Violeta Maulana) Yousef!

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By Nathan V. Laxamana

KUWAIT: Thunder Dragons continued its expanse of winning,UAE Exchange return with a vengeance after losing for three con-secutive weeks and reunite with the elite group in the eight weekof the Philippine Bowling Association in Kuwait (PBAK) 2ndSeason Team Tournament 2015 held at Cozmo Bowling Center atKheifan. The Original Pin Killers known as ‘silent killer team’stopped the struggling Swooping Eagles 2858-2680 and the AsianAir Safari repressed the soundless Magnum 2953-2772. Other tri-umphant teams were LEAF, Bowlersmate and Travel Club.

The peerless UAE Exchange team tamed the fearless MangafStrikers in their collision at Lanes 11 & 12. In the first two gamesthe Remittance King taught the Apprentice a lesson with stagger-ing scores of 1970-1506 resulting to 464 points difference but thecourageous Mangaf Strikers retaliated in the third game and out-smarted UAE Exchange 888-881. After the final count the resultwas 2951-2419 in favor of the remittance king with the able lead-ership of Bader Malalah (551), supported by Freddie Santos (532),Rani Skeik (510), Renato Pante (510), Rudy de Lima and MariotteVito. Mangaf Bowlers were Jayson Gamba, Jun Janoras, RobertOpena, Restie, Ernie and Yolly dela Torre. With the win, UAEExchange once more joined the “Magic 8” snatching the seventhposition while Mangaf Strikers still the tail ender.

The clash of the titans was an exceptional encounter when inthe first game the Thunder Dragons and All Star Strikers producedidentical score of 902 and the 25 game points was equally divid-ed. In the second game the Dragons outscored the All Stars 987-

926 same in the final game after scoring a thousand points andgot a bonus of 25 points and the final score was 3012.5-2815.5thus capturing the team of the week series with free lane fee nextweek. Joel Tizon piloted the Thunder Dragons with his consistentscores of 202/203/205 (610) followed by Moises Amahan (573),Mar Evangelista (527), Eddie Pena (525) and Eden Evangelistawhile the 5-man team of All Stars were Anthony King (634),Hanadi Mezail (557), Fadel Qassem (515), Ali Ashkanani (510) andNasha King (500). With the win-lose results, the Dragons surgedfrom fifth to third position while All Stars remained second rank.

The Original Pin Killers clipped the Swooping Eagles wings forfurther surge (2858-2680) but the win-lose results did not affectedtheir standings which both occupied. OPK top scorers were Greg‘Kingpin’ Melancon (642) and Ishaq Al Waahid (641) assisted byChristopher Bush (509), Alma Turley (505) and Jelyn Colegio whilethe Swooping Eagles 5-man team were Alonzo Bush (548), RizRoque (486), Jessica Balagat (476), Danny Solis (421) and JocelynTy. Asian Air Safari controlled early the Magnum team in the firsttwo games 2015-1809 and the third game was a useless win forthe latter 938-913 with the final score of 2953-2772. Air Safari topscorers were Gani dela Cruz (203) with Norlan Balasan (566) sup-ported by Alex Cervantes (491), Lito Michael (484) and HermieSaliba (466) while Magnum have Ulysses Menezes (521), MathewEapen (498), Fatima Sequeira (434), Amaldo Fernandes (417),Demal Fernandez and Vinod Nair.

Other results: Travel Club maintain the number one positionafter crushing Nusantara 2973-2573 whose dream of joining theelite group become a nightmare; cyclic Bowlersmate don’t let the

Tsamba team to extend its luck by striking them early in the first 2games (2751-2559) and keeping the sixth place and finally theLandscape Engineers Association of Filipinos outscored the ram-bling Cozmo team 2867-2747 and still the cliff hanger.

Team Standing after eight round: 1. Travel Club (23076); 2. AllStars Strikers (22843.5); 3. Thunder Dragons (22703.5); 4. Asian AirSafari (22679); 5. Original Pin Killers (22590); 6. Bowlersmate(22425); 7. UAE Exchange (22276); 8. LEAF (22235); 9. Cozmo(22117); 10. Nusantara (21714); 11. Swooping Eagles (21607); 12.Tsamba Strikers (21034); 13. Magnum (20860) and 14.MangafStrikers (20167). Individual High Game Individual High AverageMens-A Abdul Aziz Al Aslawi 279 Greg Melancon 228.87Mens-B Yousef Khalil 257 Mike Gonzales 186.71Mens-C Ishaaq Al Waahid 248 Ishaaq Al Waahid 195.46Ladies A Hanadi Mezail 225 Hanadi Mezail 188.50Ladies B Laras Nitikusumo 191 Alma Turley 152.58Team High Game (Scratch) - All Star Strikers (1101)Team High Series (Scratch + Handicap) - All Star Strikers (3144) Team Weekly SeriesWeek 1 - All Star Strikers - 3144Week 2 - Travel Club - 3009Week 3 - Bowlersmate - 2944Week 4 - Asian Air Safari - 2796Week 5 - Travel Club - 2963Week 6 - Original Pin Killer - 2970Week 7 - Swooping Eagles - 2830Week 8 - Thunder Dragons - 2900

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MANILA: The Philippines’ most famous athlete,world-class boxer Manny “Pac-Man” Pacquiao, isthe second highest-paid celebrity in the planet,beating many other athletes, musicians or artistsfrom Hollywood and beyond.

Based on Forbes Magazine’s 16th annual“Celebrity 100” ranking of the world’s top-earningcelebrities (found at www.forbes.com/celebrities),Pacquiao - with estimated earnings of $160 mil-lion - ranked next only to his American arch-rivalFloyd Mayweather who topped this year’s listwith $300 million in earnings.

Forbes has released its “Celebrity 100” listevery year since 1999 as a tally of the “most pow-erful” celebrities from the worlds of movies, tele-vision, music, sports and books on their earningsand overall media footprint.

ADVERTISEMENTThis list measures and ranks the earnings

of the highest-paid entertainers on the planetover the past 12 months. Earnings are meas-ured based entirely on earnings over the lastyear. Earnings consisted of pretax incomebetween June 1, 2014 and June 1, 2015 whilemanagement, agent and attorney fees werenot deducted. “The result is the definitiveindex of who’s making what in the global

business of fame,” the magazine said.For the first time, Forbes said the Celebrity

100 list is “truly international” as it had includedtalent from across the entire entertainmentworld - from Hollywood to Bollywood - in itsranking. Mayweather might just have had the“least surprising” payday of all time, the maga-zine said, noting that the undefeated boxer’s$300 million earnings marked the highest annu-al sum ever for an athlete-mostly from his con-troversial May 2, 2015 victory over Pacquiao.

This much-awaited fight in Las Vegas turnedout to be heart-breaking for the Filipino nationas Mayweather was declared the winner byunanimous decision. Pacquiao, on the otherhand, was reported to have fought with a shoul-der injury.

Forbes noted that the fight had spawned arecord 4.4 million pay-per-view transactions andexhaustive global media coverage.

In the magazine’s July 20, 2015 issue, the twoathletes ranked higher than American popsinger Katy Perry, who ranked third place withestimated earnings of $135 million.

Boy band “One Direction” ranked numberfour on the list with $130 million in earningswhile American radio star Howard Stern rankedfifth with $95 million in estimated earnings.

Completing the top 10 roster are:l American singer-songwriter Garth Brooks

was the sixth placer with $90 million;l American author James Patterson, best

known for novels about fictional psychologistAlex Cross, was seventh placer with $89 mil-lion;

l American actor Robert Downey Jr., whohas made a big comeback as the “Iron Man” inthe Avengers series, ranked eighth with esti-mated earnings of $80 million, sharing theranking with American singer-songwriterTaylor Swift who earned an equal sum; and,

l Portuguese football star CristianoRonaldo of Spanish club Real Madrid ranked10th with estimated estimated earnings of$79.5 million.

This year, musicians ranked high on the list,dominating 10 out of the top 25 on the list.

Other notable celebrities outside the top 10list were the following: The Eagles (No. 14),Calvin Harris (No. 17), Justin Timberlake (No. 19),Diddy (No. 21), Fleetwood Mac (No. 24) andLady Gaga (No. 25). Overall, the latest Celebrity100 list includes 38 musicians, 29 athletes, 19actors, six international personalities, threeradio stars, two comedians, one chef, onemodel and one author. —Inquirer.net

Pacquiao is the world’s 2nd highest-paid celebrity

Recent Manny Pacquiao photos from his Facebook account

Manny Pacquiao was invited to Buckingham Palace byPrince Harry. The Filipino boxer was clearly humbled tobe in the presence of royals.

LAS VEGAS: (File) The belts of Manny Pacquiao of thePhillipines before his match against David Diaz duringthe WBC Lightweight Championship at the Mandalay BayEvents Center on June 28, 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada.