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Oracion, Emata reunite with RP team in Mt. Everest base camp (4:10 p.m.)
3rd Pinoy reaches Mt. Everest's summit (3:25 p.m.)
Pinoy Everest climbers to arrive in base camp Friday (10:20 a.m.)

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Climbing the 8,848-meter (29,028-foot) Mt. Everest is akin to our country winning the Olympic gold, according to Sen. Pia Cayetano, a sports enthusiast and member of the Philippine National Duathlon Team. Erwin “Pastor” Emata was the second Filipino to reach Everest’s summit. (Photos by Mounteverest.net)
MANILA -- A second Filipino reached Thursday morning the summit of Mt. Everest, the highest peak in the world straddling the border between Nepal and China.

Erwin "Pastor" Emata, a native of Davao, stepped on the peak at 5:34 a.m. Nepal time (7:34 a.m. in the Philippines), making him the second Filipino after Heracleo "Leo" Oracion to reach the top of the 8,848-meter mountain.

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Manila bans showing of 'The Da Vinci Code'
MANILA -- The Manila City Council on Thursday issued a resolution that bans the movie "The Da Vinci Code" in the Philippine capital, saying the film is an attack on the country's dominant Roman Catholic religion.
New police head picked for Asean security
CEBU CITY -- A general who was selected specifically to help in the security preparations for the upcoming Asean summit took his post as the new head of the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas.
3 men, boy killed by two Cafgu men
GENERAL SANTOS CITY - Two militiamen shot and killed four civilians, one of whom was a 16-year-old boy, at Barangay Tambilil in Kiamba, Sarangani Province.


 
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DAVAO: Agency spells out Arroyo 10-point agenda

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Opinion

Roperos: New Pinoy heroes

Malilong: Court of Appeals decision

Ledesma: Around Mindanao in 15 days

Peña: Septic tank waste

Balingit: The Da Vinci Code (II)
 
Sports

DAVAO: Mayor's Cup swimfest fires off

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Lifestyle

CEBU: En blanc

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Features

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:: Country News ::

Bacolod
31 Negrenses ‘treated like pigs’ rescued in Cebu
We're not keeping ‘goons’, doc says

Baguio
Treasure hunting to be stopped: mayor
Town hopes to operate controlled dumpsite by June

Cebu
CICC’s substructure finished a month early
Gador says police will do a good summit job

Cagayan de Oro
Water firm seen to extend rationing
Military denies forcing couple on affidavits

Davao
Comval board to file raps for medicine purchase scam
Board delays release of P1-T allowance to ComVal employees

Dumaguete
School union holds strike vote
Exec sure of controversial ordinance's repeal

General Santos
Cha-cha movers confident of new system
Mayor Pacquiao, why not?

Iloilo
Docs sued for dog's death
2nd district mayors still back guv: board member

Manila
Time reporter who squealed on coup plot placed in immigration watch-list
Lawyer charged for 'beating' ex-lover-actress

Pampanga
Porac link to SCT expressway okay if 6-km road erected: agency
San Fernando mulls record for long 'longaniza'

Pangasinan
Task force formed to look into activist leader killing
American, 4 others charged with 'illegal hiring'

Zamboanga
Zambo's economy most dynamic in Mindanao: report
Mexican artists perform in Zambo

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