PINAY IS THE WINNER, TOPS ASEAN MILITARY SHOOTFEST
MANILA, NOVEMBER 19, 2007 (STAR) By James Mananghaya Monday, November 19, 2007 A female soldier won the championship in the shooting contest at the ongoing 17th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Armies Rifle Meet in Thailand.Cpl. Jennifer de Belen, a member of the Philippine Army shooting team, beat 45 other contenders from participating armies of 10 ASEAN member-countries, according to Maj. Harold Cabunoc, coach of the Army team.
“It is her fourth consecutive championship,” he said in an overseas call to The STAR from Thailand.
Cabunoc said De Belen placed first in precision match and third in combat shooting, over other pistol shooters from Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
De Belen’s teammate Pfc. Rodney Rizano won a silver in the individual rifle match, he added.
The Army team also won three bronze medals in the carbine match, as well as in the pistol competition for men and women.
This year’s competition started last Nov. 9 and would end on the 22nd of this month.
Last December, Philippine Army shooters brought home a total of nine golds and 32 silver medals after competing in the AARM in Hay Tay province in Vietnam.
The ASEAN Armies Rifle Meet is an annual shooting competition among Army personnel of ASEAN member countries.
The first AARM was held in Camp Terendak, Malacca, Malaysia in 1991.
The Philippines hosted the AARM at Fort Magsaysay in Palayan City in 1995 and in 2001.
During the 15th AARM in Brunei in 2005, the Philippines bagged the most number of gold medals and championship trophies (overall leader in team standings).
Pinoy students bag 6 medals in math, science olympiad By Rainier Allan Ronda Monday, November 19, 2007
Young Filipino math and science prodigies won six bronze medals in the 4th International Math and Science Olympiad in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Ma. Czarina Angela Lao, a grade 4 student at St. Jude Catholic School-Manila; Michael Brodeth, grade 6 student at Colegio de San Agustin-Makati; Mario Ongkiko, grade 5 student at Xavier School; and Andrew Caguntas, grade 6 student at Bangkal Elementary School, all won a bronze medal in the Math division of the Olympiad held from Nov. 10 to 16.
Angelique Joy Virata, grade 6 student at the Pagadian City Pilot School and Frances Reyes, grade 5 student at St. Paul College-Pasig, both won bronze medals in the Science division.
The Filipino “whiz kids” competed against students from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Brunei, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and host country Indonesia.
The Philippine delegation to the Math and Science Olympiad was composed of three public school students and eight private school students for the Math division; and three public schools students and four private school students for the Science division. The Mathematics Trainers Guild-Philippines provided support to the group.
The delegates were accompanied by 20 Department of Education officials and teachers.
RP doctors to aid cyclone-hit Bangladesh
Monday, November 19, 2007 The Philippines will send a medical team to help relief efforts in Bangladesh, where a cyclone has killed at least 2,000 people, an aide to President Arroyo said yesterday.
The President “extends her deepest sympathy and compassion to the people of Bangladesh,” Presidential Management Staff head Cerge Remonde told reporters.
“A team of doctors (is) to be sent to the disaster-stricken country” by the Department of Health, Remonde said.
He said the group – which could probably include five doctors, four nurses and a psychiatrist – could leave as early as Wednesday. – AFP, AP
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