DLSU vs. Ateneo for Basketball’s UAAP Finals (GMANews)

Pacquiao is ready for de la Hoya; open to trilogy match with Juan Miguel Marquez (GMANews)

10,000 Filipino kids die yearly from diarrhea (Manila Times)

Filipinos edge out rivals in shipbuilding (Inquirer)

New Negros Oriental health insurance to outdo PhilHealth (Inquirer)

Ryan Agoncillo reinvents himself in ‘Pieta’ (ABS-CBN)

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This week’s news links incorporates Philippine news involving other countries. Some news are “friendly”, others are bad.

• Murder suspect for Peace Corps volunteer Julia Campbell gets life sentence. (ABS-CBN)
• Medical feat gets club-feet Filipina to walk for the first time. (Newsweek)
• Korea donates $300,000 victims of typhoon Frank. (ABS-CBN)
• Philippines dangerous for journalists – IFJ (ABS-CBN)
• Philippine Airlines renews “Buy 1, Take 1″ promo fare (GMANews)
• Philippine peso trades at P45.57 while global oil prizes shoot to $144 per barrel (Inquirer)

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In recent years, the Philippines has become a global source of organs such as kidneys. Illegal and/or unhealthy practices of organ harvesting is on the rise. Most donors come from the poor, who give up a kidney for a few thousand dollars of “gratuity package” and livelihood assistance. It’s difficult to blame someone whose only desire is to give his children a better future. But the vulnerable are precisely who illegals brokers are looking for.

I’ve even been told of fatal abductions and the victims found to missing one or several organs. Organ transplants to foreign recipients have also risen in the past years to as much as 50% of transplants, 40% more than allowed by law.

The department of health now bans all organ transplants to foreigners, but this would not stop the black market on illegal organ sales. Now that the ball is rolling, I don’t know what would.

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• Jane Doe               seat # 16-B
• Joh Doe                 seat # 21-C
• Gokhan Mutlu       toilet seat

OK so it sounds funny like that, but I am sure it wasn’t any fun for jetBlue passenger Gokhan Mutlu when he was told to stay in the airplane bathroom for his flight from San Diego to New York. And it’s certainly not funny now for jetBlue if this suit goes to court.

Gokhan Mutlu was wait-listed on a flight from San Diego to New York, but was allowed to board when a flight attendant gave up her last seat. According to the New York Post, the attendant sat on the personnel “jump seat” but 30 minutes into the flight wanted to take her seat back. So the pilot told Mutlu to give up that seat to the stewardess, and spend the rest of the flight in the toilet. Which he did, much to his humiliation.

Even though this didn’t happen in the Philippines, I thought I would post this as part of the travel-related news. Just in case you might be traveling with jetBlue. Read the complete report from the New York Post.

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Recording artist Geneva Cruz is retiring from showbusiness.

Gretchen Barreto and Dawn Zulueta have heated exchange via text!

Ruffa May Quinto breaks up with foreign lover.

Gabby Concepcion sued over breach of contract. (And he just came back to showbiz, too!)

Manny Pacquiao’s face lands on a stamp.

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