Beautiful Cebuana Wins Miss Earth 2008

A beautiful Cebuana, Ms. Karla Paula Henry, wins Miss Earth 2008 at the pageant held at the Clark Expo in Angeles City, Pampanga, Philippines last November 9, 2008. The 22-year old Fil-Canadian 5’7” beauty bested 85 other candidates from all over the world. She also won the Miss Photogenic Award and the Miss Earth Designers Award.

Beautiful Cebuana Karla Paula Henry


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How To Survive Hurricane Gustav and A Typhoon in The Philippines

Hurricane Gustav, a category 3 storm that had already damaged the Caribbean and killed 94 people in its path, is expected to land at New Orleans today.

With the devastating effects of Katrina and Rita in 2005, there is no other choice this time. Even for a nation as advanced as the USA, evacuating 2 million people is necessary. The people on the path of Hurricane Gustav should immediately evacuate or risk their lives. Strong winds at 115mph and increasing, heavy storms and flooding, zero-electricity; these are all expected in this kind of situation.

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Philippines in the 2008 Beijing Olympics Medal Standing

Final medal count is 0-0-0 for the Philippines. And it had been like than in the last three Olympics. We’ve lost in all the other sports we’ve taken part of, while China and the USA are breezing it through like they own the sporting world. The Taekwondo jins were our last medal hopes. But they failed. The last medal chance in Mary Antoinette Rivero for Taekwondo never produced any good result as she was outpointed by Sandra Saric of Croatia this morning (8/22/08). The other day Tshomlee Go was eliminated early by Ryan Carnelli of Australia. Diver Ryan Rexel Fabriga, the last of the 15-man Philippine to play, ended up at 28th place.

Here’s the updated medal standings for the 2008 Beijing Olympics leading nations as of today.

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