Megan Young is Miss World 2013

BALI, IndonesiaMiss Philippines, Megan Young, was

crowned Miss World in a glittering finale on the Indonesian resort
island of Bali on Saturday.

I promise to be the best Miss World ever, Young, 23, said after
winning the 63rd annual event, as a large number of Filipino fans
who traveled with her celebrated by jumping and waving the
countrys flag.

Philippines first
Young, wearing a pearl white gown, bested 126 beauty queens from
around the world to become the first Filipina to win the coveted title
in a contest broadcast to more than 180 countries worldwide.
Miss France, Marine Lorphelin, 20, took second place,
while Miss Ghana, Carranzar Naa Okailey Shooter, 22, came in third.

To the question Why should you be Miss World? Young answered,
I treasure a core value of humanity and that guides people why
they act the way they do. I will use this to show other people how
they can understand each other as one, we can help society.

This is the first time the Philippines has won a Miss World title crown
in the 63-year history of the London-based pageant.

ZAMBOANGA CRISIS PHASE 2
ZAMBOANGA CITY, PhilippinesIt aint over.
After almost three weeks of fighting, Defense Secretary Voltaire
Gazmin on Saturday clarified the government had accomplished its
mission to free all the hostages of the Moro National Liberation
Front (MNLF) but the work is not yet over.

In a press briefing here on Saturday, Gazmin said the government
had accounted for all the hostages but had yet to complete house-
to-house clearing operations 20 days after the rebels assaulted the
third largest city in the Philippines and took an estimated 195
hostages.

He said the government would now proceed to Phase 2. which
involves the house-to-house clearing to remove possible booby
traps and firearms left behind by the rebels. This could take up to
two weeks, military officers said.

The fighting that ensued left about 218 dead, wounded hundreds
more, and sent more than 100,000 residents fleeing to evacuation
centers.

The rebel assault, apparently aimed at thwarting a government
peace plan with another Muslim separatist group, ground this city of
more than a million residents virtually to a halt, razed 10,000 homes
and reduced 30 to 40 hectares of once thriving communities to
rubble.

It was one of the bloodiest and longest-running attacks by an Islamic
separatist group in the south, the scene of a centuries-long Muslim
rebellion for self-rule in this largely Catholic country.

Neither MNLF founder Nur Misuari nor his top commander, Habier
Malik, were captured.
One report said Malik had escaped the military dragnet and had
retreated to the Sulu archipelago.

Post-impeachment pork: Drilon, Enrile top list
Twenty senators received a total of P1.107 billion in additional pork
barrel a few months after they voted to convict former Chief Justice
Renato Corona last year.

Budget Secretary Florencio Abad on Saturday confirmed the fund
releases, but immediately pointed out that the funds came from the
so-called Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) that was
introduced in 2011 to ramp up spending and help accelerate
economic expansion.

Of the 20 senators who voted to convict Corona for betrayal of
public trust and culpable violation of the Constitution, only then Sen.
Panfilo Lacson did not accept the additional pork from the executive
larder.

But then Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, Sen. Franklin Drilon
(former chair of the Senate finance committee), and Sen. Francis
Escudero received double helpings of the additional pork barrel.

In a privilege speech on Wednesday, Sen. Jinggoy Estrada spoke
about the P50-million additional pork as if it was a bribe given to the
senators in exchange for voting to convict Corona.
Later, Estrada said the P50 million was an incentive, but for what
he did not make clear.

Plunder charges have been filed against Estrada, Enrile and Revilla,
along with several former and current members of the House of
Representatives in the Office of the Ombudsman for the P10-billion
pork barrel scam allegedly masterminded by businesswoman Janet
Lim-Napoles.

For 2013, releases from the DAP for legislators were suspended by
President Aquino in the aftermath of the Commission on Audit
special audit report (of PDAF releases). To this day, no subsequent
DAP releases have since been made to support lawmaker-endorsed
projects, in much the same way as we suspended PDAF releases,
Abad said.

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