LM Confidential Issue December 2014

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anila
Merry Christmas to Everyone!
How to be a Millionaire
With names like Astig and
Cold Ice, Shabu tipsters
become rich
MANILA - They go by the codenames Astig, Asgit, Cold Ice and Bombay as far as the anti-narcotics community is concerned.
They are not dog sniffers but actually the drug tipsters who became instant mil- lionaires courtesy of the Operation Pri- vate Eye of the Philippine Drug Enforce- ment Agency which offers huge prize on anybody who could help the government smash secret shabu laboratories and big- time drug traffickers in the country.
MILLIONAIRE continued on page 24
INSIDE
Fatal
ATTRACTION
Did Pastor kill wife to marry Filipino mistress?
Extra-marital
website Banned
Teleserye
as a College Course
ittle
Ms. Paraluman 2014
Rizzelyn Catequista is happy after winning
The Filipino Centre Toronto’s Ms. Paraluman 2014 title. Contestant number 4 Naisy Morota finished first runner-up. Story on page 16
FCT’s Outstanding Student Awards
Story on page 27
DECEMBER 2014
Call Centres leaving Manila for provinces
More workers in the provinces cited
BAGUIO CITY - The Philippine business process outsourcing (BPO) industry was set to challenge China as the world’s biggest BPO employer, but the work force could not supply the
In Good Company
Pope to
hold mass
in Tacloban
No ticket needed for mass with Pope
MANILA, Philippines—The Archdiocese of Palo will give away 78,000 tickets for a Mass to be celebrated by Pope Francis at Tacloban International Airport on Jan. 17, 2015.
But people can go to the Mass even without tickets. Rev. Cris Militante, Archdiocese of Palo media coordinator for the papal visit, said that the tickets will serve as passes only for people who will be allowed in the quadrangle where the Mass will be held.
“The tickets will be some sort of identifica- tion just for the purpose of crowd control and these are free,” Militante said in an interview over Church-run Radyo Veritas.
Militante said tickets would be given to rep- resentatives of the parishes and mission stations in the Archdiocese of Palo.
He said each of the parishes and mission stations were expected to send at least 1,000 representatives to the Mass.
“We have more than 78 parishes and mission stations who will fill the area. But it doesn’t mean that only those who will be chosen will
Conservative MP Candidate Julius Tiangson, Finance Minister Joe Oliver, Senator Tobias “Jun” Enverga, Philippine Press Club Ontario President Rose Tijam, and Rosemer Enverga listen as Senator Enverga awards the certificate of recognition to Rose Tijam.
POPE TO VISIT TACLOBAN continued on page 25
Debut in Ohio
Kristel Shaira Tenorio poses with her family, Rico and mom Glenda during her debut in Ohio.
PHOTO by NOLI GUMAPAC of 4ENSPHOTOGRAPHY
CALL CENTRE continued on page 22
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DECEMBER 2014
IYA
VILLANIA
A New Chapter