Hot Hunks Overloaded (GGV Uncut)

Tito Sen: Mula Aparri hanggang Jolo

Joey De Leon: Saan ka man halina tayo

Bossing Vic: Isang libo't isang tuwa

TVJ: Buong Bansa

Pipoy (Mang Bruno): Eat...BULAGA!

"Mula Batanes hanggang Jolo

Saan ka man ay halina kayo

Isang libo't isang tuwa

Buong bansa... 

Buong bansa ay nagkakaisa

Sa tuwa't saya na aming dala

Isang libo't isang tuwa 

Buong bansa...

Buong bansa... Eat Bulaga!"

"Mula Batanes hanggang Tawi-Tawi... Kay ganda mo, Pilipinas kong Mahal!"

Watch how JC de Vera and Ejay Falcon made a Cosmopolitan Bachelor Bash runway out of "Gandang Gabi Vice" stage.

 

Lalo pa siyang nagiging hot kapag, sabi nga ni Vice Ganda... yan ang nagparate sa dugong buhay 'di ba? "hubad, hubad, hubad, baril, baril, baril" ganon? 'di ba ganon "hubad, hubad, hubad, baril, baril, baril" si JC naman "hubad, hubad, hubad, pacute, pacute, pacute" moments niya hehehe!

There were still criticisms or negative thoughts about it, even though Marco, Gerald, Tony A., Jon, Phem, Benj, Hermes, Kris, Gian, Albie, Nancy, David, Carlos, Geneva, John Lloyd, Rodjun, Janvier, Franco, Alessandra, JC, AJ, Robi, John E., Ejay, Frencheska, Rachelle Ann, EA, Katrina, Kristine, Brent, Luke, Tibo, Bianca, Doug, Maureen, Mikee, Xian, Zanjoe, Priscilla, Don, Sam M., Sam P., Cass, Camille, John P., Francine, Bruce, Dex, Rufa Mae, Keanna, Rafael, Johan, Victor S., Jay-R, Prince, Geoff, John James Nicole, Alfred, Iya, Maggie, Valerie, AJ W., Jomari, Kerbie and many others already appeared in this event.

Bukod kina Ejay at JC, ilan dito sa mga celebrities na rumampa sa mga Bench denim and underwear shows noong 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010 at 2012 ay sina Marco Alcaraz, Gerald Anderson, Jon Avila, Phoemela Baranda, Hermes Bautista, Kris Bernal, James Blanco, Albie Casiño, David Chua, Sam Concepcion, Rayver Cruz, Jake Cuenca, Alessandra de Rossi, AJ Dee, Enchong Dee, Robi Domingo, Katrina Halili, Brent Javier, Luke Jickain, Tibo Jumalon, Karylle, Kian Kazemi, Bianca King, Doug Kramer, Maureen Larrazabal, Mikee Lee, Xian Lim, Ehra Madrigal, Michelle Madrigal, Shaina Magdayao, Zanjoe Marudo, Jessy Mendiola, Don Mendoza, Sam Milby, Carlos Morales, Ron Morales, Diether Ocampo, Angelica Panganiban, Bubbles Paraiso, Rica Peralejo-Bonifacio, Sam Pinto, Cassandra Ponti, Camille Prats, John Prats, Francine Prieto, Bruce Quebral, Rufa Mae Quinto, Wendell Ramos, Rafael Rosell, Johan Santos, Jome Silayan, Jay-R Siliona, John James Uy, Arron Villaflor, Iya Villania, Valerie Weigmann at AJ Wrinkler.

But the young actor says he is ready for butt exposures and love scenes with another man.



He was very careful though, requesting his manager to clear the room and leave him and the photographer to complete his most daring project yet. When asked why the sudden shift to the sexy route after exposing skin in two magazines in less than 5 months, JC owe this to his perfect shape. "Na prepare yung katawan ko. Very confident naman ako na gawin kasi prepared ako. I am ready to flaunt," says the actor.

But is this the direction his new mother network wants him to have? "Ever since naman masipag talaga akong mag workout, mag showcase sa kung anong meron ako. Nung lumipat ako sa ABS-CBN, siguro mas madaming naka appreciate kung anong meron ako," he explained further. JC was quick in saying though that there is still limit in his showing of skin saying "Pa sundot-sundot yung mga sexy but not all the time."

Asked though how far can he go when it comes to baring, de Vera said it depends on the material, how his character in a movie is built and the objective of his involvement in a project.  Even if it requires making love with a man, JC said that those are his only rules. "Depende sa selling point nung film. Kung ibebenta ako as sexy, hindi. But if needed talaga siya ng character, kakayanin ko kung hanggang saan ang itatakbo ng role," he said.

"Butt exposure, hindi siya issue sakin. Sa Hollywood naman kasi, yung butt exposure normal lang sila. Pag kailangan talaga sa character, hindi ako magdadalawang isip. Pero pag ang indie film may pagka porn na ang dating, di siguro," he explained further.

JC is also excited that aside from his drama series "The Legal Wife" with Angel Locsin, Jericho Rosales and Maja Salvador, he is set to appear in a sexy noontime soap also on ABS-CBN. With the working title "Moon of Desire", JC is set to work with sexy actresses Ellen Adarna and Meg Imperial. When asked to describe his newest project, the actor referred to it as "sexy and sensual." "Expect nila na madami silang makikita na skin." 

Hong Kong court allows controlling stake in Multiply to be sold to foreign investor

CEO and owner Stefan Magdalinski sells shares to Si Rongbin’s Star Platinum, after other parties withdraw objections to deal

Jakarta, Indonesia - The Jakarta Central Commercial Court on Friday allowed the controlling stake in defunct E-commerce and social networking site Multiply to be formally sold to a foreign investor, who claimed he had a rescue plan for the closed website.

Multiply's CEO and owner Stefan Magdalinski, who had filed a petition to wind up the company to recoup his losses, agreed to sell shares under his control to Si Rongbin’s Star Platinum.

But the deal was earlier blocked by Multiply’s other creditors, including listed company China Trends, who feared that their interests would be jeopardized.

On Friday, High Court judge Mr. Justice Jonathan Harris validated the transaction after hearing that the parties would no longer object to the share transfer and that the dues for the shares had been paid by Si.

Neither Magdalinski nor Si appeared in court. Their lawyers declined to give details about the terms of the agreement.

It was also not revealed whether Magdalinski would continue his bid to wind up Multiply, which pulled the plug and ended 9 years of internet service on May 6 and ceased all business operations on May 31, after the share deal.

The liquidation petition against the company was adjourned until December 9.

Plebiscite results favor new Davao province

The coming into being of Southern Mindanao’s fifth province is now more apparent as returns from majority of Davao del Sur’s 14 towns and this city heavily favored the law that sought to create it, the Commission on Elections said Wednesday.

Ma. Febes Barlaan, Davao del Sur election officer, said results from eight towns and this city showed that “No” trailed by 65,801 votes behind “Yes,” which has 105,254 as of early afternoon Wednesday.

Barlaan said votes still waiting to be canvassed by the provincial board of canvassers were mostly from towns known to be in favor of the new province’s creation.

Even if all the returns have yet to be canvassed, Barlaan has confidently declared late Tuesday that “Yes has won.”

Added to region

Once formally declared as a new province, Davao Occidental – composed of the second district towns of Don Marcelino, Jose Abad Santos, Kiblawan, Malalag, Malita, Santa Maria, Sarangani and Sulop – will join the provinces of Davao del Sur, Davao del Norte, Davao Oriental and Compostela Valley in forming the Davao region.

More new towns such as B'laan, Don Manuel Medel, Sr., San Jose and Ticulon.

The creation of the new province was initially proposed by former Representative Marc Douglas Cagas IV when his father, Douglas Cagas, was still governor of Davao del Sur.

Under Cagas’ proposal, Davao Occidental was to be formed by all towns in the second district.

As the May elections drew near, however, Cagas withdrew his proposal but the idea of creating a new province was kept alive by second district Rep. Franklin Bautista.

Bautista’s version of the law contained the basic elements of Cagas’ proposal but the composition of the province was reduced to only Sta. Maria, Malita, Don Marcelino, Jose Abad Santos and Sarangani after officials of the other second district towns of Kiblawan, Malalag and Sulop, which are known to be Cagas turfs, opted out.

Futile opposition

The Bautista version was passed by Congress and signed by President Benigno Aquino III into law.

Former Representative Cagas tried to block the plebiscite at the Supreme Court but the tribunal junked his petition.

The younger Cagas, however, continued to oppose the approval in a plebiscite of Bautista’s version of the law creating the new province. He spent money on tarpaulins listing the negatives of having a new province.

Wilhelm Sukyo, Southern Mindanao director of the Department of the Interior and Local Government, said the DILG will help officers in charge run the new provincial government until a set of officials has been elected in 2016. Eldie Aguirre and Orlando Dinoy, Inquirer Mindanao

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/517371/plebiscite-results-favor-new-davao-province

Newcomer Ran Domingo bares in "Binyag"

Sa kanyang unang pelikulang Binyag mula sa Greenlight Entertainment, walang kagatol-gatol na nagpasilip ang bidang baguhang hunk na si Ran Domingo.

Ang mapangahas niyang pagpapakita bilang isang promdi nasana'y magbilad ng katawan sa tabing-dagat niyang paraiso ay bahagi ng karakterniyang ginampanan na bantad sa mga ikatlong kasariang nagnanasa sa kanyangkatawan.

Dito, paulit-ulit maririnig ang OPM (Oh, promise me) ng showbiz characters (producer, director, caster, PR person at iba pang may kinalaman sa pag-build-up sa isang nangangarap mag-artista), lalo na sa isang machong promdi. Sasabihin ng mga ito na: ‘May itsura ka,' ‘Lalo kang nagiging macho sa kayumanggi mong kulay,' ‘Gagawin kitang malaking artista!'

Sa mga makakapanuod nito, iisiping base sa tunay na buhay ngbida ang Binyag, pero ayon kay Ran, may ilang pagkakatulad ito sakaranasan niya sa pagsali-sali niya noon sa mga timpalak pangkalalakihan.

Isang Pampango, si Ran ay beterano ng iba't ibang contests. Civil Engineering student siyasa Central Colleges of the Philippines. Aniya, stepping stone niya ang mga nasabing pageant sa inaasam na modeling career.

First runner-up siya sa Ginoong Filipinas 2006; best informal wear sa Search for Datu Marikudo 2006; at first runner-up sa Kourus 2006. Isa siya sa runway models ng Bench Fever ‘06.

Dito sa Binyag, sinupurtahan si Ran ng mga magagaling at datihang sina Paolo Rivero (ng Daybreak, Toro/ Live Show) bilang gay talent manager, Kenjie Garcia (ng Lihim ni Antonio at Kambyo) bilang pahagip na taga-Siyudad, Simon Ibarra bilang matalinhaga ng mangingisda, Lou Veloso bilang malungkuting matandang bading, at Ynez Veneracion bilang kababatang may pagnanasa kay Ran.

Prinodyus ng Greenlight Entertainment sa pakikipagtulungan ng Sunflower Films International, magkakaroon ng premiere ang Binyag sa UP Film Institute sa October 2. Sneak preview sa New Cinema Theater sa Cebu sa October 6 at ang regular showing nito sa Kamaynilaan ay sa October 8.

Read more at http://www.pep.ph/guide/movies/2594/newcomer-ran-domingo-bares-in-binyag#ZXtTfkRAF2ykwPoI.99

www.pep.ph/guide/movies/2594/newcomer-ran-domingo-bares-in-binyag

Multiply full operations eyed to resume in 2 to 3 months

Full operations of defunct social networking site Multiply may be restored in 2 to 3 months, according to website CEO and owner Stefan Magdalinski said Monday.

"By Christmas 'yun ang objective natin," he told reporters.

Magdalinski said there was a "big possibility" that the website would have more features similar to Facebook Live and hashtag similar to Twitter.

Authorities earlier said it would take 9 months before the Multiply could resume full operations as the international subsidiary Multiply International and the social networking portion with hosted blogs, videos, photos and messaging to reopen.

“We regret to announce that Multiply will be closing on May 6, 2013, and ceasing all business operations by May 31, 2013,” it announced Friday on its website.

After May 6, the rest of the month will be used to ensure that all accounts are settled and merchants get full payment for their transactions, it said.

Multiply said the month-long grace period will provide its users enough time to find and migrate to alternative e-commerce platforms, settle all payments on items bought and delivered, and minimize disruption to businesses of its users.

“Multiply will ensure that you receive all funds you earned on the platform no later than May 31, 2013. We will close the actual marketplace sooner, on May 6, 2013, to ensure that all orders have sufficient time to complete and be delivered to your customers before the end of the month,” it said.

In December 2012, Multiply stopped its social networking service to focus on e-commerce, targeting the 350 million consumers in Indonesia and the Philippines.

Pope Francis discovers charismatic movement a gift to the whole church

 VATICAN CITY (CNS) — During World Youth Day celebrations in Rio de Janeiro, July 23-28, many worshippers in the crowds could be seen swaying from side to side, arms raised in the air, wearing rapt or joyous expressions on their faces.

Such scenes, along with on-stage appearances by celebrities such as Father Marcelo Rossi, a mega-church pastor whose records and movies regularly top the charts in his native Brazil, testified to the Catholic Charismatic Renewal's strong influence on the church in Latin America today.

As the church continues to lose members in the region with the world's largest Catholic population, the charismatic movement stands out as a source of hope, not only for fending off the formidable competition of Pentecostal Protestantism but for raising morale among the faithful as a whole.

Though not even half a century old, the movement claims that at least 120 million Catholics in 238 countries have been “baptized in the Holy Spirit,” according to a 2012 document published by International Catholic Charismatic Renewal Services. The movement, which started in the United States, reports fast growth in Asia and Africa. But the world's largest concentration of charismatics today is in Latin America, where 16 percent of Catholics identify themselves as participants.

One of the movement's pioneers was Jesuit Father Edward Dougherty, founder of Brazil's Seculo 21 Catholic satellite television channel.

When the Louisiana native moved to Brazil in 1966, he discovered a country where, as in most of Latin America, vocations and Mass attendance rates had languished. He also learned that a recent Catholic movement to promote social justice in the region had led, in some cases, to neglect of otherworldly values.

“I felt very much a strong emphasis on liberation theology, which I say is very horizontal,” Father Dougherty told Catholic News Service in Rio. “There was a need for spirituality.”

Meanwhile, Pentecostal Protestants were enthusiastically spreading their message to great success among the traditionally Catholic population.

Pentecostals “talk about the spiritual needs of the people,” Father Dougherty said. “Often their churches, their temples, are more open than the Catholic churches,” and their pastors more willing to visit people in their homes than Catholic clergy are.

Some Pentecostal churches, especially non-denominational institutions such as Brazil's Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, also preach the “prosperity gospel” of material well-being through faith in Jesus Christ. It was a message with obvious appeal in a country such as Brazil, where, despite recent economic growth, the per-capita gross national product is only $12,100.

The Pentecostal movement has continued to rise, from 6 percent of Brazil's population in 1991 to 13 percent in 2010, according to a recent Pew Research Center study based on Brazilian census data. In the same period, the Catholic share of the country's population fell from 83 percent to 65 percent. A 2006 Pew survey of Pentecostals in Brazil found that 45 percent were converts from Catholicism.

Although the Catholic charismatic renewal has strong ecumenical roots, and its members have often worshipped together with Pentecostals, it also functions as a vehicle for retaining or winning back Catholics tempted by the Protestant alternative.

Like Pentecostalism, charismatic Catholicism emphasizes the Holy Spirit, features faith healing and speaking in tongues and is spread by door-to-door evangelists. But the important roles it gives to Mary and the Eucharist ensure that charismatic devotion has a clear Catholic identity.

The movement also encourages social service, Father Dougherty said, noting that it draws its inspiration from the church's foundational event, the first Pentecost, when Jesus' disciples “went out to the streets” to preach and help the needy as soon as they were filled with the Holy Spirit.

Strong Catholic identity has been crucial to the movement's acceptance by the church's hierarchy in Latin America, many of whom had initial reservations about its unfamiliar forms of worship and largely lay leadership.

One early skeptic was Argentine Jesuit Father Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis.

“Back at the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s, I had no time for” charismatics, the pope told reporters on the plane returning from Rio July 28. “Once, speaking about them, I said: 'These people confuse a liturgical celebration with samba lessons!'”

“Now I regret it,” he said. “Now I think that this movement does much good for the church, overall.”

“I don't think that the charismatic renewal movement merely prevents people from passing over to Pentecostal denominations,” Pope Francis said. “No! It is also a service to the church herself! It renews us.”

“The movements are necessary, the movements are a grace of the Spirit,” the pope added, speaking of ecclesial movements in general. “Everyone seeks his own movement, according to his own charism, where the Holy Spirit draws him or her.”

-By Francis X. Rocca Catholic News Service

Multiply investor in new rescue plan to avoid liquidation as HK$100 million in wages and pensions hang in balance

South China Morning Post, July 3, 2013

Details sketchy and former staff still concerned they won’t be paid

Jakarta, Indonesia - Defunct e-commerce and social networking site Multiply's fate remains unknown as its current investor continued his bid to save the debt-stricken company from liquidation.

Myriad International Holdings unit of Naspers has put Multiply under its control, submitted a new rescue plan for Multiply, the High Court heard on Tuesday.

Si's legal representative told the court that Star Platinum had already reached a preliminary agreement with Multiply's current CEO and owner Stefan Magdalinski, who had filed a petition at the Central Jakarta Commercial Court to wind up the defunct website to recoup his losses.

Star Platinum would need more time to finalize the details with Wong, the court heard.

But Si's lawyer did not reveal in court whether the latest proposal was significantly different from China Culture Media's previous plans to save Multiply.

Apart from Si, businessman Zhao Dong and listed company China Trends also vowed last month to come to Multiply's rescue with their own investment plans. But neither Zhao nor China Trends disclosed on Tuesday whether they were still in discussions with Wong.

Representatives of former Multiply staff, who also took part in the winding-up petition, voiced concerns over whether they would actually be paid.

A total of 3,000 former employees are owed Rp 10 billion comprising unpaid wages and pensions, the court heard.

On June 12, Magdalinski said they had put in place Rp 20 billion for wages owed to former Multiply staff.

The Labour Department said earlier that around 1,500 former Multiply staff had applied for compensation through the Protection of Wages on Insolvency Fund, a safety net for employees affected by business closures.

On November 16, 2013, it allowed the controlling stake in the website to be formally sold to a foreign or mainland investor who claimed Magdalinski had a rescue plan for the troubled firm.

High Court judge Mr. Justice Jonathan Harris validated the transaction after hearing that the parties would no longer object to the share transfer and that the dues for the shares had been paid by Si.

On June 10, 2014, it has filed for corporate rehabilitation to seek protection from its creditors. The company filed the petition for rehabilitation before the Pasig City Regional Trial Court (RTC). At that time, the website's social networking portion had a network of 18 million users. Liquidity problems, however, affected earnings. Sales declined from their peak of P20 billion in 2013 to just about P5 billion in 2017.

It had suffered from a drop in new orders amid a slump in the E-commerce and social networking sector. Multiply also reportedly laid off some 12,000 workers on February 28, 2014.

Multiply revealed that it has $10 billion in outstanding loans -- $800 million from Philippine banks and $100 billion from South Korean lenders.

That the site will be reopened after United States President Barack Obama stepped down in the office on January 20, 2017, and keeping Facebook as the sole social networking site. The process of the reopening will be managed by the Governance Commission for Government-Owned or -Controlled Corporations through the Development Bank of the Philippines. Business tycoon Manny V. Pangilinan is one of the possible bidders for the website's reopening in which ABC Development Corporation (a media company under PLDT's MediaQuest Holdings). However, MediaQuest also could not join the website's reopening bid due to ownership rules and regulations that MediaQuest owns ABC Development Corporation.

On January 25, 2016, Philippine President Benigno Aquino III approved the planned reopening of Multiply. The reopening will be undergoing public bidding with an estimated floor price of 20 billion pesos. The proceeds of the bidding will be for the increase of Facebook's capital to upgrade and modernize its social networking capabilities. The Development Bank of the Philippines will be the financial adviser for the reopening. Incoming PCOO Secretary Martin Andanar has already forwarded the reopening plan to President Rodrigo Duterte's executive secretary Salvador Medialdea. Andanar will also coordinate with the GCG before the start of the bidding.

The reopening process of Multiply was commenced in October 2016. As of July 1, 2017, five groups have already shown their interest to join the bidding process. These are Ramon S. Ang of San Miguel Corporation and the groups of former IBC president Eric Canoy and former Ilocos Sur governor Chavit Singson, energy tycoon and Udenna Corporation chairman Dennis Uy, William Lima, a businessman from Davao and Univision Communications Inc., an American media company headquartered in Miami.

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1940695/atv-investor-new-rescue-plan-avoid-liquidation-hk88-million