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Business, International

PHILIPPINES’ TORRE DE MANILA WILL BE RELOCATED TO SAN FRANCISCO

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Torre de Manila, Philippines, left, and San Francisco, right

SAN FRANCISCO, California (The Adobo Chronicles ® ) – The 49-story Torre de Manila condominium project in the Philippines’ capital has been so controversial that it has reached the Supreme Court which will have to decide on the fate of this infrastructure development.

The controversy is based on the fact that the building, when completed, will provide an ugly and inapprorpriate backdrop to the nation’s premier monument at Manila’s Luneta Park featuring its national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal.

Lawmakers on Tuesday urged property developer D.M. Consunji Inc. (DMCI) to voluntarily demolish the controversial building rather than wait for the Supreme Court to issue a final ruling on the matter.

Realizing that it has nothing but a losing case on its side, DMCI has finally agreed to abandon the  project and demolish the building.

DMCI has come to the decision after it received confirmation from San Francisco that the City by the Bay has approved its application to build a similar project near the world-famous Golden Gate Bridge.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee informed DMCI that the condominium project will help ease the American city’s housing shortage and uncontrollable skyrocketing of apartment rent.

Lee said that after seeing an artist’s rendition of how the condominium project will look like as a backdrop to the Golden Gate Bridge, he decided it would be great fit to San Francisco’s image and skyline.

 

 

 

Beauty, International

VENEZUELA, U.S., PHILIPPINES ELEVATED TO BEAUTY PAGEANT HALL OF FAME, WILL NOT BE PARTICIPATING IN 2015-16 CONTESTS

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2013 Miss Universe Gabriela Isler of Venezuela

PUERTO RICO (The Adobo Chronicles®) – The Association of Beauty Pageant Franchise Holders (ABPFH) has just released the list of top 20 countries with the most number of titles and runners-up in the “big four” of international beauty pageants: Miss World, Miss Universe, Miss International and Miss Earth.

At its annual meeting held this week in Puerto Rico, the ABPFH members signed a memorandum of agreement banning the top three countries on the list from participating in any of the big four pageants in 2015 and 2016.

“We wanted to give other countries a better chance to improve their standing in the beauty pageants,” a spokesperson for ABPFH told reporters.

The top three countries who will not be participating in the pageants for the next two years are Venezuela, the United States and the Philippines.

Venezuela tops the list with 21 crowns and 40 runners-up. The U.S. has 14 crowns and 55 runners-up, while the Philippines has 10 crowns and 21 runners-up.

ABPFH said that the three countries can again send representatives to the pageants beginning in 2017.

Film and TV, The Media

CNN AND FOX AGREE TO SWAP DON LEMON WITH MEGYN KELLY

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Lemon, left, and Kelly
Lemon, left, and Kelly

ATLANTA, Georgia (The Adobo Chronicles®) – During an interview this week with Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush, FOX news commentator Megyn Kelly declared she was an Independent, having voted for both Democrats and Republicans. During a phone interview with Glenn Beck, CNN anchor Don Lemon admitted he was a conservative.

Today, both news cable networks said they have had it with their star news anchors.  They’re making a swap: Kelly moves to CNN and Lemon moves to FOX News.

In a joint statement, CNN and FOX said that they each wanted to be consistent with the politics and ideologies of their respective networks and that the swap is  a move in the right direction.

In her programs, Kelly is known to ask tough questions of Republicans and is not afraid to call them out if she thought they were out of line or out of their mind.

Lemon, on the other hand, Lemon is famous for his ridiculous theories and antics about the news, including suggesting that the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was kidnapped by a higher power.  Just last night, the openly-gay anchor opened his show by holding up the confederate flag and a sign that said “NIGGER,” in a failed attempt to try to stimulate discussion about news developments in South Carolina and the White House.

So, the next time you turn on to your favorite cable news program, don’t panic if you see an unfamiliar face.  You are still tuned to CNN or FOX.