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Efren Penaflorida, the educator who was named 2009 CNN Hero of the Year for initiating a “pushcart classroom” to indigent children, will be feted to hero’s welcome when he returns to the country.
14:46:28 2009-11-23
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A Filipino street educator has been named the 2009 CNN Hero of the Year for starting a “pushcart classroom” in the Philippines to bring education to poor children as an alternative to gang membership.
01:08:39 2009-11-23
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(UPDATE 2) For his innovative “Kariton Klasrum” (pushcart classroom) Filipino educator Efren Peñaflorida has been awarded by CNN as “2009 Hero of the Year.”
23:52:27 2009-11-22
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THE National Geographic has chosen the Philippines as one of the “25 best new travel destinations in the world for 2010.”
15:40:59 2009-11-14
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ILAC Angelo Diaz, Pinoy social entrepreneur and activist is on CNN’s Hot List of People to Watch.
16:00:25 2009-11-07
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People light candles for many reasons—to celebrate, to mourn, to remember, to love, to inspire, to light the darkness.
06:30:35 2009-11-03
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Over the past month, typhoons “Pepeng” and “Ramil” lashed northern Luzon, but residents of a town in Cagayan province are thanking their young trees for sparing their place from killer landslides that buried villages in other mountainside communities.
03:38:00 2009-11-02
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NEW DELHI, India— It's "mission accomplished" for the 20-member Philippine team to the just-concluded 2009 Wizards at Mathematics International Competition (WIZMIC) where it finished in second place.
14:49:29 2009-10-31
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World champions Erlinda Pecante and Antonio Taguibao stamped their class anew to help the Philippines to a seven-gold romp in the recent 2009 World Masters Powerlifting Championships in Ostrava, Czech Republic.
13:56:53 2009-10-29
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NASSER Lubay, a 26-year old self-taught painter from Quezon bagged second place honors in the painting category of the prestigious Celeste Prize 2009 in Berlin, Germany.
17:10:11 2009-10-24
