Australia Donates Landing Crafts

Considered as the weakest in the region, the poorly-equipped Philippine military is looking to foreign allies to help bolster its resources.

Australia responded by donating two decommissioned military landing craft to the Philippines after the archipelago struggled with relief efforts following Super Typhoon Haiyan, it was announced Sunday.

Till Death Do Us Pay

Even in death the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) will haunt you. This after they have decided to look into the bank accounts of dead people to reach their target collection goal of PhP 50 billion by 2016.

BIR Commissioner Kim Henares said they will take advantage of a loophole in the Bank Secrecy Law to check taxable inheritance and boost estate tax collections from about PhP 1 billion a year to an average of PhP 12.5 billion.

Men Prefers Supermodel Beauty

According to sociologist Cliff Hillard, "More and more, men today find themselves bombarded with un-retouched images, and with that comes the considerable mental burden of trying to reconcile what they see in these ads and magazines with their personal perceptions of beauty."

Hillard, who studies attainable ideals of female attractiveness in the media and how they can create an overly realistic sense of what women ought to look like added that "For most men, it's very discouraging. Instead of seeing only rail-thin models, they’re now exposed to accurate representations of women whose proportions mimic those of actual human females."

McNaught's Sexy and Fit Post Baby Selfie

If you have it, you can flaunt it. And that’s what model Erin McNaught did after getting back her figure from delivering a baby.

Based on the bikini photos she posted on her Instagram account, the former Miss Universe Australia has done a lot of work to get her flat stomach.

LTO: Time to Change License Plates

According to the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) and the Land Transportation Office (LTO) last year, the new license plates with multiple security features will be available to replace old license plates starting 6 January 2015, in line with government’s license plate standardization program.

"It’s time to change old license plates with new ones. (6 January 2015), we begin phasing out the 9 various designs currently in use with modern, standardized, and security feature-packed license plates," Secretary of Transportation Jun Abaya said.