KPOP: THE MOON THAT EMBRACES THE SUN

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The sun symbolizes the king of the Chosun Dynasty. The moon represents the Queen. Heo Yeon Woo (Han Ga In), the daughter of a noble family, is chosen to become the Crown Princess (and the future queen) of the Chosun empire, but power-hungry members of the court have their own succession plans in mind. The Queen Dowager Jung Hui (Kim Young Ae) orders Yeon Woo to be killed so that Yoon Bo Kyung (Kim Min Seo) can become the Crown Princess instead. Although everyone believes that the hit on her life is successful, Yeon Woo is secretly saved by Jang Nok Young (Jun Mi Sun), the most powerful shaman of the day, and raised among the shamans. Heartbroken over the death of his love, Crown Prince Lee Hwon (Kim Soo Hyun) becomes king and marries Bo Kyung but never consummates the marriage because his heart belongs to the love he lost. Eight years later, a mysterious shaman who bears a striking resemblance to Yeon Woo comes to court. King Hwon calls the shaman Wol, but the woman has no memory of her life before she became a shaman eight years ago. In his heart, King Hwon is convinced that Wol is the presumed-dead Yeon Woo and is determined to investigate the events surrounding her supposed death. Can Wol discover her unknown past and reclaim her rightful position in the court? "The Moon Embracing the Sun," also known as "The Moon That Conceals the Sun," is a 2012 South Korean drama series directed by Kim Do Hoon. Based on the 2005 novel The Moon That Embraces the Sun by Jung Eun Kwol, who also wrote the popular novel-turned award-winning drama "Sungkyunkwan Scandal" (2010), the series won for best drama and best actor at the 2012 Baeksang Art Awards.





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WHO WILL GET THE FIRST iPHONE 5 IN PH

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Should Zac Efron ever decide to text someone from the Philippines, he can do so using a local number.

This, as leaked photo showed that Globe Telecom, Inc. decided to make the Hollywood star of High School Musical fame its first iPhone 5 subscriber.

The Penshoppe endorser Efron arrived in the Philippines Wednesday for a Sept. 29 fan conference at the SM Mall of Asia.

Using her Twitter account, Joyce Ramirez, who handles Penshoppe's publicity, posted a photo of the phone Globe sent.

Ramirez added Efron will be using the number 0917-1434ZAC during his stay in the Philippines.

The report comes even before the Ayala-led firm launched the latest model of the Apple smartphone locally.

Apple ties up with local telco providers for the distribution of its iPhone units.

Last year, President Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III was Globe's first iPhone 4S subscriber.

Globe corporate communications manager Yolanda Crisanto gave a hearty laugh when Yahoo! Southeast Asia called to confirm the news about Efron.

"I'm not supposed to talk about that yet," Crisanto said, although adding that she will ask permission from higher-ups.





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ABS-CBN FOUNDATION TRANSFORMS ESTERO

Estero de San Miguel in Manila City used to be choked with trash and was a dumping ground of murder victims.

Today, it is lined with flowers instead of shanties, and trees are growing along the estero, as River Warriors patrol for trash.

The century-old Paco Market, once an eyesore and source of most of the waste that went into the Estero de Paco, has been restored to its former glory. Gina Lopez, managing director of the ABS-CBN Foundation, said when the rehabilitated Paco Market was inaugurated in 2011, that it used to have a reputation for drugs and crime. 

The relocation of 1,350 families to a site in Calauan, Laguna and the clean-up of the polluted esteros has changed that. 

Kapit Bisig Para sa Ilog Pasig, ABS-CBN Foundation’s ongoing campaign to rehabilitate the Pasig River, has kept the original 1911 architecture but updated the market to be more environment-friendly. Among the upgrades are the maximized use of natural light and a high ceiling to promote cross ventilation. 

In the middle of Paco Market's dry goods section is a multi-purpose activity center making it a community center as well as a hub for commerce in the area.

Estero de Paco, which runs along the Paco Market, has also been transformed. Plants hide water treatment systems cleaning the estero while residents tend vegetable gardens along the banks.
An area by the Philippine National Railway tracks has been turned into a small park, where residents can fish for tilapia.

A tree house, which doubles as a venue for barangay meetings, also serves as a place for patrollers looking out for those who dump trash into the estero.

Lopez says the rehabilitation of the market and the estero has spurred the construction of a supermarket and a three-star hotel in the area. According to KBPIP, river rehabilitation will translate to an increase in economic activities. This will lead to a 300-percent increase in employment opportunities within 20 years.

Lopez hopes that in the process, the esteros will be transformed into commercial and recreational areas for residents. "The conjecture here is that when you clean the esteros, the economy will boom," she says.

The clean-up has already resulted in drastic changes in the quality of life along the esteros. Because the esteros are flowing more freely, the barangays along them were spared from floods that affected most of Metro Manila in August. Assuming an average cost of P3,500 per family for relocation during floods and house repairs after, the clean-up saved the area's 1,770 households around P6.1 million a year, Lopez says.

Crime has gone down by 40 percent in seven of the 16 barangays along Estero de Paco, Lopez adds, noting that of 7,000 households living 20 meters from the esteros, 97 percent said they had "greater life satisfaction."

Most respondents, 85 percent, said they had lower medical expenses after the clean-up and 89 percent said they felt safer. All respondents said they have gotten more exercise since the esteros were cleaned up.

Cleaning up Quezon City

While cleaning up Manila's esteros is an ongoing process, KBPIP plans to replicate its success in esteros in Quezon City, which dumps most of its trash into the San Juan River. "If we clean San Juan River, we’ll clean half of the Pasig River. If we have to clean San Juan River, we have to clean Quezon City," she says.

To help raise money for the clean up, KBPIP will hold the "09.30.2012 Run, Ride & Roll for the Pasig River" at the Quezon City Memorial Circle on Sunday. Around 80,000 runners, bikers, and skaters are expected to attend. KBPIP hopes to raise around P14 million to fund the rehabilitation of San Francisco, Culiat, and Pasong Tamo creeks in Quezon City.

"The Quezon City experience is really important because it sets the template for other cities. Unless local government units take on the cleaning of the esteros, it’s not going to happen," Lopez says.
Manila has already proven that it is not impossible to transform a trash-choked estero into a tree-lined waterway. Quezon City will soon have to show that it is equally up to the challenge.

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GIANT OAR FISH FOUND IN MISAMIS ORIENTAL

This approximately 3 meters in length oar fish was found in Barangay Cala-Cala, Balingasag, Misamis Oriental by the local fishermen on September 18, 2012, Tuesday afternoon.





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RA 10172 TO CORRECT CLERICAL ERRORS ON BIRTH CERTIFICATE

President Benigno Aquino III signed in August the new law, which amends Republic Act 9048. The old RA (signed in 2001) states that "no entry in a civil register shall be changed or corrected without a judicial order, except for clerical or typographical errors and change of first name or nickname which can be corrected or changed by the concerned city or municipal civil registrar or consul general."

Now on the new law - Republic Act 10172 , the errors on birth certificate can be easily changed without the hassle of obtaining court orders. The new RA includes the day and month in the date of birth or sex of a person where it is patently clear that there was a clerical or typographical error or mistake in the entry.

Republic Act No. 10172

Republic of the Philippines
Congress of the Philippines
Metro Manila

Fifteenth Congress

Second Regular Session

Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-fifth day of July, two thousand eleven.

[REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10172]

AN ACT FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY OR MUNICIPAL CIVIL REGISTRAR OR THE CONSUL GENERAL TO CORRECT CLERICAL OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS IN THE DAY AND MONTH IN THE DATE OF BIRTH OR SEX OF A PERSON APPEARING IN THE CIVIL REGISTER WITHOUT NEED OF A JUDICIAL ORDER, AMENDING FOR THIS PURPOSE REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED NINETY FORTY-EIGHT

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:

SECTION 1. Section 1 of Republic Act No. 9048, hereinafter referred to as the Act, is hereby amended to read as follows:

“SECTION 1. Authority to Correct Clerical or Typographical Error and Change of First Name or Nickname. – No entry in a civil register shall be changed or corrected without a judicial order, except for clerical or typographical errors and change of first name or nickname, the day and month in the date of birth or sex of a person where it is patently clear that there was a clerical or typographical error or mistake in the entry, which can be corrected or changed by the concerned city or municipal civil registrar or consul general in accordance with the provisions of this Act and its implementing rules and regulations.”

SEC. 2. Section 2, paragraph (3) of the Act is likewise amended to read as follows:

“SEC. 2. Definition of Terms. – As used in this Act, the following terms shall mean:

(1) xxx xxx

(2) xxx xxx

(3) ‘Clerical or typographical error’ refers to a mistake committed in the performance of clerical work in writing, copying, transcribing or typing an entry in the civil register that is harmless and innocuous, such as misspelled name or misspelled place of birth, mistake in the entry of day and month in the date of birth or the sex of the person or the like, which is visible to the eyes or obvious to the understanding, and can be corrected or changed only by reference to other existing record or records: Provided, however, That no correction must involve the change of nationality, age, or status of the petitioner.”

SEC. 3. Section 5 of the Act is hereby amended to read as follows:

“SEC. 5. Form and Contents of the Petition. – The petition for correction of a clerical or typographical error, or for change of first name or nickname, as the case may be, shall be in the form of an affidavit, subscribed and sworn to before any person authorized by law to administer oaths. The affidavit shall set forth facts necessary to establish the merits of the petition and shall show affirmatively that the petitioner is competent to testify to the matters stated. The petitioner shall state the particular erroneous entry or entries, which are sought to be corrected and/or the change sought to be made.

The petition shall be supported with the following documents:

(1) A certified true machine copy of the certificate or of the page of the registry book containing the entry or entries sought to be corrected or changed;

(2) At least two (2) public or private documents showing the correct entry or entries upon which the correction or change shall be based; and

(3) Other documents which the petitioner or the city or municipal civil registrar or the consul general may consider relevant and necessary for the approval of the petition.

No petition for correction of erroneous entry concerning the date of birth or the sex of a person shall be entertained except if the petition is accompanied by earliest school record or earliest school documents such as, but not limited to, medical records, baptismal certificate and other documents issued by religious authorities; nor shall any entry involving change of gender corrected except if the petition is accompanied by a certification issued by an accredited government physician attesting to the fact that the petitioner has not undergone sex change or sex transplant. The petition for change of first name or nickname, or for correction of erroneous entry concerning the day and month in the date of birth or the sex of a person, as the case may be, shall be published at least once a week for two (2) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation.

Furthermore, the petitioner shall submit a certification from the appropriate law enforcements, agencies that he has no pending case or no criminal record.

The petition and its supporting papers shall be filed in three (3) copies to be distributed as follows: first copy to the concerned city or municipal civil registrar, or the consul general; second copy to the Office of the Civil Registrar General; and third copy to the petitioner.”

SEC. 4. Section 8 of the Act is hereby amended to read as follows:

“SEC. 8. Payment of Fees. – The city or municipal civil registrar or the consul general shall be authorized to collect reasonable fees as a condition for accepting the petition. An indigent petitioner shall be exempt from the payment of the said fee.

The fees collected by the city or municipal civil registrar or the consul general pursuant to this Act shall accrue to the funds of the Local Civil Registry Office concerned or the Office of the Consul General for modernization of the office and hiring of new personnel and procurement of supplies, subject to government accounting and auditing rules.”

SEC. 5. Separability Clause. – If any provision of this Act shall at any time be found to be unconstitutional or invalid, the remainder thereof not affected by such declaration shall remain in full force and effect.

SEC. 6. Repealing Clause. – Any laws, decrees, rules or regulations inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed or modified accordingly.

SEC. 7. Effectivity Clause. – This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in the Official Gazette or in at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation.

Approved,

(Sgd.) FELICIANO BELMONTE JR. Speaker of the House of Representatives

(Sgd.) JUAN PONCE ENRILE President of the Senate

This Act which is a consolidation of Senate Bill No. 3113 and House Bill No. 4530 was finally passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on May 30, 2012 and June 5, 2012, respectively.

(Sgd.) MARILYN B. BARUA-YAP Secretary General House of Representatives

(Sgd.) EMMA LIRIO-REYES Secretary of the Senate

Approved: AUG 15 2012

(Sgd.) BENIGNO S. AQUINO III
President of the Philippines

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