100M Philippine Lotto Jackpot

Grand Lotto 6/45 jackpot of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) is expected to pass P100 million.

The Grand Lotto jackpot has surpassed P96.45 and will be largest so far this year.

PCSO General Manager Jose Ferdinand M. Rojas II had acknowledged the growing 6/55 windfall, saying lotto aficionados' desire to make it big could push the P96.45 million even higher by Monday night's draw.

PCSO figures showed that since April 19, 2010, when it replaced the unpopular Power Lotto, Grand Lotto has so far yielded only six winners.
Its biggest winner was a 60-year-old Filipino engineer who works in New York City in the United States as building estimator.

He was on a vacation and stayed in a hotel at the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA), where he placed a P100-Lucky Pick bet for five combinations on Nov. 29, 2010. Lucky Pick combination of 11-16-31-37-42-47 hit the P741.17 million jackpot.

The Grand Lotto has the biggest odds to beat, one in 28.99 million; while the Super Lotto 6/49 has one 13.98 million; Mega Lotto 6/45 at one in 8.15 million, and Lotto 6/42 at one in 5.25 million.

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Crowned Bb. Pilipinas 2011

This year's special award winners are:
People's Choice: The Face of Binibining Pilipinas: Angelia Ong
Best in swimsuit: Queenirich Rehman
Best in long gown: Luzelle Felipe
Ms. Friendship: Samantha Purvor
Manila Bulletin Reader's Choice: Luzelle Felipe

General Santos City-born Shamcey Supsup, the 2010 architecture board topnotcher, was named the 2011 Binibining Pilipinas Universe during the pageant coronation night on Sunday, April 10 at the Araneta Coliseum. Who also graduated magna cum laude from the University of the Philippines Diliman, will represent the country in the Miss Universe Pageant in Sao Paolo, Brazil.

Shamcey said in an interview after the pageant "I still can't believe it. Parang panaginip. Kanina nung nag announce na sabi ko it's God's will. If it's for you, it's for you. You just have to believe it,", "Whatever happens, it happens for a reason and God has a plan for every one of us... Ang dami talagang magaganda. Ang dami talagang magagaling. Feeling ko the judges had a hard time choosing the winner for the year."

Shamcey bested 39 other candidates in the pageant. Aside from winning the major title, she also won three special awards: Miss Cream Silk, Ambassador of Philippine Airlines, and Miss Talent.

Meanwhile, Iriga native Dianne Necio bagged the Binibining Pilipinas International title and Pasig City resident Isabella Manjon was crowned Binibining Pilipinas Tourism.
For Dianne, it is a dream come true after winning the first runner up plum last year.
"Last year, I joined and I ended up as first runner up and it was talagang pinagdasal ko. Kanina I'm not expecting anything. Sabi ko lang, 'Lord ibigay mo kung ano yung gusto mo ibigay.' So I'm just thankful na I will have the chance to compete in an international title... Talagang pag di mo tinigilan yung dream mo, maaabot mo siya and keep on praying," Dianne said in an interview.
Isabella, on the other hand, could not contain her joy in winning the Tourism crown.
"I'm so overwhelmed right now. Sobrang I feel blank. I'm so happy," she said.
Other winners are First Runner Up Janine Tugonon and Second Runner Up Mary Jean Lastimosa.

"I'll do my best. I'm just gonna give it my all and I hope that whatever I'm gonna do there Brazil" Shamcey said.





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Pacquiao Vs Mosley

Brokers and scalpers are making a killing in ticket sales for the May 7 world welterweight title fight between Manny Pacquiao and Shane Mosley, Hall of Fame promoter Bob Arum said from his lair in Las Vegas.
"People are making so much money from this fight," said Arum, the 79-year-old chief of Top Rank Inc, undoubtedly the leading promotional outfit these days. "People are waking up in the morning saying 'I want a ticket to the fight' and they would pay any amount to get one."
Demand for tickets to the 12-round war at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas that Arum said there's none available now.
"What we have now are three tickets...three tickets and by tomorrow, they would all be gone," said Arum in his trademark New York drawl.
Tickets - priced from a high of $1,000 to a low of $150 -were made available to the public two months ago.
Internet sellers are making huge profits with them low-priced tickets pegged as much as $350, while the high-end ringside seat is selling for as much as $3,800.
Even the closed-circuit viewing is starting to catch on following the unavailability of tickets to the 17,000-seat venue.
"So far, there's been a sale of 3,000 tickets to closed-circuit and all the MGM-Mirage operated hotels and resorts will be showing the fight," said Arum.
"We still have a full month ahead and everything's great about the promotion," added Arum.

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Japan's Ravage Coast

The Japanese and U.S. militaries are launching another all-out search for the bodies of earthquake and tsunami victims along Japan's ravaged coast.
About 22,000 Japanese troops, along with 110 from the U.S., will search by land, air and sea on Sunday. They'll skip the evacuation zone around the damaged nuclear complex that is spewing radiation. Troops and police officers have also been searching within the evacuation zone, but it is dangerous, painstaking work.
As many as 25,000 people are feared dead in the March 11 disaster, but only 13,000 deaths have been confirmed. Many bodies have likely been washed out to sea and will never be found.
Defense ministry spokesman Norikazu Muratani says the troops want to do their best to find bodies for the families.

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Filipino Father pays $1,000 for Information to his missing son

Manila (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN) - Has anyone seen Nilo “Jun” Olegario Jr?
His father, retired Air Force Col. Nilo L. Olegario Sr., has been looking for him for the past 26 years.
Last month, Olegario received on Jun’s behalf the US$1,000 compensation that a United States court had ordered distributed to rights abuse victims of the Marcos dictatorship.
He is offering the money as a reward to anyone who can give him information about his missing son.
In August 1983, the young Olegario, newly graduated from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP), had joined the August Twenty-One Movement (Atom), one of the protest groups to have emerged in the wake of the brutal killing of opposition leader Sen. Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. He was 26 years old at the time.
Two years later, on Dec. 13, 1985, Jun called up his father in Chicago. “He told me ‘Dad, we are going to the hills. We are being arrested,'" recalled Olegario.
That was the last time he would hear Jun’s voice, the father said.
“My son disappeared without a trace. If he’s dead, where is the body?" Olegario said in a recent interview.
“I’m 81 years old, I want justice for my son," he said.
2 factions
Olegario began searching for Jun after the first Edsa People Power uprising in 1986 that brought down the dictator Ferdinand Marcos and installed in power Corazon Aquino, Ninoy’s widow and the mother of the present-day President Aquino.
His inquiries with the Atom group and through his connections in the military have yielded nothing.
He said he had sought out former Sen. Agapito “Butz” Aquino, Ninoy’s brother and a founding member of Atom.
“Butz told me that Atom had split into two factions, the hardliners and the moderates. He said it became difficult to control the group," Olegario said.
He said Butz’s explanation tended to jibe with the statements that Jun had made in the last telephone conversation with his father.
“My son said that the military and Philippine Constabulary soldiers were arresting Atom members and activists, that’s why they had to go into hiding," Olegario said.
Revenge on the son
Olegario, who is a lawyer, believes his son was abducted by agents of Marcos’ Armed Forces chief, Gen. Fabian Ver, in retaliation for an interview that he (the father) had given a US journalist on what he knew about the Aquino assassination.
“I learned from my contacts in the AFP that Ver was out to get me. They could not get me because I was in the US, so they took their revenge on my son," said Olegario, a former deputy commander of the 1st Air Division at the Villamor Air Base.
Disgusted by the corruption and the military’s involvement in the Aquino assassination, Olegario took early retirement in December 1983. In 1984, he migrated with his family to the US for a “better life." But Jun, the third child, opted to return to the Philippines after only a few months in the US, to work in the anti-Marcos movement.
In the US, Olegario linked up with the Movement for a Free Philippines (MFP), the anti-Marcos group led by Raul Manglapus and another ex-colonel, Bonifacio Gillego.
According to Olegario, he gave the MFP some information he had about the Aquino assassination. The MFP contacted journalist Phil Bronstein of the San Francisco Examiner.
Ver plan for Ninoy
In July 1985, Bronstein wrote a story about Ver’s plan to divert the plane that would carry Ninoy Aquino, who had decided to end his US exile and return to Manila, to a military airbase. The plot included the dispatch of two Air Force fighter jets to intercept the China Air Lines plane carrying Ninoy and the takeover by Philippine Air Force officers of the US Air Force radar scopes at Clark Airbase.
The story, which was also published by the alternative press in Manila, strengthened the public’s suspicion that the Marcos regime was behind the assassination of Ninoy as he stepped out of the CAL plane at the Manila International Airport on Aug. 21, 1983.

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