Meriam Defensor Santiago Funny Speeches

Meriam Defensor Santiago is a Senator in the Philippines. She's a very feisty Senator but very funny in giving graduation speeches. She was a member of the Intenational Criminal Court but left because of her Health. She first run as a Presindent in 1992 but lost. She run as a Senator and won everytime.

Meriam Defensor Santiago Graduation Speeches

Speech at UP Cebu, at the beginning it had Bisaya dialect

Funny Speeches

International Women's Day

Pick-up Lines, bad-ass as well

She tell what a President should be. Our current President in the Philippines, P-noy, is not like that.

50th Golden Foundation ng Collegio De Sta. Rosa in Makati, Teacher's Day

Ateneo de Manila University, lectures on youth and governance. Sponsored by Crusada. Funny part is at the beginning only.

De La Salle University, Business Law Conference

Inspirational Speeches, no funny moments. Senator being Serious.

UP College of Medicine, Diliman Campus

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Cohabitating with the dead in Manila

By Phoenix Rose

It is hard to believe that many people can cohabitate with the dead. However, this happens in North Cemetery, the massive graveyard in Manila, Philippines. The cemetery houses more warm bodies than cold corpses.

10,000 Filipino families live there. Some families end up there almost by accident. Others are too poor to afford to live in the big city. In other words, they basically have nowhere to else to go. People also work to support their lives from collecting scrap metal or repairing tombs. According to Filipino custom, it is obligatory for children to carry coffins for the belief of keeping them safe from vengeful spirit.

There are also basketball hoops, stalls, and mini-markets among the tombs

The Cemetery Houses More Warm Bodies Than Cold Corpses

People there are hired to maintain and repair tombs

The house could be the family mausoleum or their employers' mausoleum. 

Sheryl Ann M. Muros works voluntarily as a schoolteacher

Children earn money from collecting scrap metal, plastic, and other garbage 

Unidentified bones are found around the Manila North Cemetery and they become children's toys

Teenagers carry coffins for 50 Filipino pesos

Residents pay five pesos to sing karaoke in a vacant mausoleum which is used for relaxation or entertainment

Playing cards on top of tombs is a favorite pastime.

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I am the fan of news on society and culture. I am currently the lecturer in social major. In free time, I am fond of reading articles and joining social activities.

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Newly Discovered Sea Creatures Founded in Philippines

By Steve Brown

A joint US – Philippines research expedition carrying out a study at the island of Luzon in the Philippines has discovered more than 300 species of land animals, plants and deep-sea creatures. Most significantly, 300 species are proved to be entirely new to science. Scientists from Philippine scientific institutions and California Academy of Sciences had a six-week expedition around reefs, rain forests and ocean floor with aim to discover the previously unknown species and research the biodiversity in Luzon. The academy scientists have stated, “The Philippines is one of the hottest of the hot spots for diverse and threatened life on Earth.” Here are some of the newly discovered sea creatures in this expedition.

This joint U.S.-Philippines research expedition has found out this small shark swelling by inflating its stomach with water. The expedition takes place in island of Luzon from April 26 to June 8

A sea star species is recently discovered in this occasion which only eats sunken driftwood

In the picture is a new mollusk species

A new sea pen species

The sea slug has powerful toxins to fight against predators. It does not need any productive shells

A likely new sea urchin species is newly discovered

A likely new worm species was founded by the U.S.-Philippines research expedition

A newly discovered shark is shown by a member of research expedition in the Philippines. The research on biodiversity is carried out by the California Academy of Sciences and the University of the Philippines

A crab with needle-lined pincers was also discovered in hidden crevices

The research team came across a new tree-shaped soft coral species in a rare area which are hardly approached by humans

Philippines’ Luzon Island is named the 15 largest islands on archipelago in the world

A mollusk species has strange figure

Another sea slug species was discovered by the U.S.-Philippines research expedition

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