Tuesday, December 18, 2007 (Philippines)

Children with cancer ate ice cream during the Christmas party rendered by Slysam's Helping Hands Center of Davao at the Davao Medical Center. Slysam is a group of friends helping children in need. (Sun.Star Davao/Stella A. Estrera) IT APPEARS that the warring gangs that broke out in a riot right by the gate of the San Pedro Cathedral on the first dawn mass last Sunday were not satisfied by nearly disrupting the mass, but instead ran off to battle anew in the residential area behind Camp Domingo Leonor, the police headquarters. On the second riot, a policeman got caught in the fray and made the subject of an investigation since a teenage gangster was killed there. Post your comments here on the Makati siege [full story]