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National Book Store, Inc. (also spelled National Bookstore and abbreviated as NBS) is a retail company based in Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines. [ 2] It operates a bookstore and office-supplies store chain of the same name. It is the largest bookstore chain in the Philippines with over 230 branches nationwide.
Jose Maria Sison. Jose Maria Canlas Sison ( Tagalog: [hoˈse mɐˈɾija kɐnˈlas ˈsisɔn]; February 8, 1939 – December 16, 2022), also known as Joma, was a Filipino writer, poet, and activist who founded and led the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and added elements of Maoism to its philosophy—which would be known as National ...
Peter Gerard Scully (born 13 January 1963) is an Australian convicted murderer and child rapist who is imprisoned for life in the Philippines after being convicted of one count of human trafficking and five counts of rape by sexual assault of children. [ 2] Scully was sentenced to life imprisonment in June 2018.
A mailroom supervisor at a California prison has died after coming into contact with mail "saturated in an unknown substance", the US Federal Bureau of Prisons said. Marc Fischer - a coast guard ...
Double murder. On December 20, 2020, a shooting incident occurred in Paniqui, Tarlac, Philippines, when a police officer, Jonel Nuezca, fatally shot two of his neighbors, Sonia and Frank Gregorio, after a heated argument over an improvised noisemaker ( boga ). The victims' relatives and the perpetrator's underage daughter were present at the ...
292. Philippine Airlines Flight 434, sometimes referred to as PAL434 or PR434, was a scheduled flight on December 11, 1994, from Manila to Tokyo with a quick stopover in Cebu on a Boeing 747-283B that was seriously damaged by a bomb, killing one passenger and damaging vital control systems, although the plane was in a repairable state. [ 1]
Jaybee Niño Manicad Sebastian [1] (January 20, 1980 – July 18, 2020) [2] [3] was a Filipino high-profile inmate interned at the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) who was convicted for kidnap-for-ransom and carnapping in 2009. [4] He was known for running a prison gang and was allegedly involved in the illegal drug trade within the prison.
Solidaridad Bookshop. / 14.577954249704264; 120.98207658651751. Solidaridad is a bookstore in the Ermita district of Manila, the Philippines. Having first opened its doors in 1964, it is owned by Philippine national artist F. Sionil José and managed by his family after his and his wife's death. [ 1][ 2] It is sometimes called "the best little ...