Coldplay In Manila 2017: How Hard Was It To Score Tickets For ‘A Head Full Of Dreams’ Concert?

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Coldplay perform on The Pyramid stage at Worthy Farm in Somerset during the Glastonbury Festival, Britain, June 26, 2016.REUTERS/STOYAN NENOV

 

Waking up early on Thursday did not guarantee every Coldplay fans a ticket to the concert of the British boy band in Manila as the passes dried out quickly for those who have come late – or at least a minute later than the others.

‘Nobody said it was easy’

Coldplay fans took it to Twitter to vent their disappointment about the sold out tickets for the Coldplay concert in Manila, not to mention the long lines to ticket booths that build up earlier than the general sale of tickets that kicked off 10 am on Thursday.

“Hurts like heaven _ #ColdplayManila,” @clarisseguanzon tweeted.

“Waited for 10 hours, imagine that 10 hours! And still, we got nothing because of whatever system they have. @maiziecorn #ColdplayManila,” @iamsuperjayrom said.

“So sad watching the joy drain out of my siblings’ eyes when ticketing announced that Coldplay tix are officially SOLD OUT. #ColdplayManila,” @colormeapple posted on Twitter.

“From ‘nobody said it was ez’ to ‘wen u try ur best but u dont succeed’ real quick ang pagavail ng ticket #ColdplayManila,” @joshuadimaano added.

“When you lose something you cant replace. _ #ColdplayManila” @ErikaRompe wrote on  Twitter.

Coldplay ticket scalpers

Otherwise, some fans are still hopeful they could score tickets from scalpers.

“Cheer up, guys! You may not have Coldplay tickets today but you’ll always have us and food and….scalpers,” @foursisons said, while trying to be hopeful.

“And im pretty sure madaming scalpers for Coldplay tickets. Sadly some people would really buy since they love the band so much,” @Allinanutshelll added.

“Paging coldplay ticket scalpers :(((( papatol po ako :((((((((,” @ayamayani desperately tweeted.

Coldplay 2-day concert

A Coldplay Manila concert was a dream until it has come to life when the band and the concert promoter, MMI Live announced the event on Nov. 15. Now, fans who missed out on the tickets are petitioning for a two-day Coldplay concert in the Philippines.

“PLEASE PLEASE _ #ManilaWantsColdplayDay2,” @joshuaaaacapili pleaded.

“First, the Globe Presale. Now the Public Sale. lol sana next na yung announcement ng Day 2 #ManilaWantsColdplayDay2” @BYE_ncx tweeted.

“The soldout tix may have smashed my heart into smithereens but keep the tweets coming ❤ @coldplay #ManilaWantsColdplayDay2 #ColdplayManil a,” @anjawwn said.

A petition was also created on the Change.org for a second night of the concert. As of this posting, 343 supporters have already signed it.

Fans can never be hopeless for possibilities especially when Coldplay announced on Thursday that an additional Bangkok date and a second Singapore show has been added to the upcoming Asian leg of their concert in 2017. Filipino fans still have a chance to attend concerts in other Asian countries where Coldplay will be playing.

Here are some additional tweets for the Coldplay Manila concert in 2017.

Coldplay is set to play at the SM Mall of Asia concert grounds in Pasay City on April 4, 2017.

What do you think of the Coldplay concert in Manila? Have you already scored tickets to their show? Let us know in the comments section below.

Source: http://www.ibtimes.ph/

Dooley: Azkals mentally strong, motivated, ready for Indonesia

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MANILA, Philippines — Saturday night, the Philippine Azkals opened their 2016 AFF Suzuki Cup campaign against Singapore, and it turned out to be a story of missed opportunities and squandered chances for the home side.

With Singapore down to ten men late in the first half, and with solid chances in the second half, the Azkals ultimately were unable to find a conversion that would have given them an all-important win and three points in the tournament.

After close games like those, it’s easy for players to come out heavily disappointed and eventually end up losing their heart for the duration of the tournament, but according to head coach Thomas Dooley, his boys are in fact, quite the opposite.

When asked about how the Azkals were mentally after their scoreless draw against Singapore, Dooley, without hesitation, said that they were “very strong.”

The mental strength was a result of a talk between Dooley and his players following the two tough losses that the Azkals had against Bahrain and North Korea in international friendly competition.

“We had a long conversation before the tournament, after the last two games against Bahrain and North Korea about what kind of team we have to have to be successful,” Dooley said. “it’s all about positive environment, positive energy and positive spirit, and I can see that.”

Dooley added that he began seeing changes before the Azkals big win over Kyrgyzstan and even after the result against Singapore last Saturday.

“Before the Kyrgyzstan game, I could see a huge difference and even after the game against Singapore, the players were a little bit frustrated, of course, and upset that they didn’t score a goal and we didn’t win that game, but nothing has changed.”

According to the former American national team skipper, whatever the result had been against Singapore, the Azkals are in must win situation against Indonesia.

“Even if we lost to Singapore, even if we won against Singapore we still have to beat Indonesia to get to the next round, for sure.”

Indeed, the Azkals will need to gather momentum and get all the points that they can before they face defending champions Thailand on Friday, and coach Dooley is quite confident that his guys are up for the challenge.

“The motivation is there, the players look fit. The players look ready.”

This article originally appeared on the ABS-CBN Sports website.

 

Source: http://news.abs-cbn.com/sports

Imelda knew everything about martial law; Imee was no baby -Ramos

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Former President Fidel Ramos on Monday criticized the family of deposed tyrant Ferdinand Marcos for playing innocent and refusing to apologize for the atrocities committed during the regime.

Ramos was reacting to the remark of the late dictator’s eldest daughter, Ilocos Norte Gov. Imee Marcos, who chided Ramos for the abuses during the martial law era and said she was “too young” at the time to make a legal admission of guilt.

Ramos served as chief of the Philippine Constabulary, predecessor of the Philippine National Police, who helped Marcos plan the martial rule. But in a press conference on Feb. 22, 1986, Ramos and then defense minister Juan Ponce Enrile announced their break from the dictator.
“That’s a funny story. When she (Imee) said that they were still young, in fact she said ‘maliliit pa kami ng mga bata’ in Tagalog, I know how old she is because she is one year older than my eldest daughter,” Ramos said at a press conference in his office in Makati City.

“Within a few years after the proclamation of the martial law, Imee was elected, in quotes, ‘president of the Kabataang Barangay.’ So was she a little baby or a little musmusin? Of course not. She was a responsible person,” Ramos told reporters.

Ramos said the Marcos matriarch Ilocos Norte Rep. Imelda Marcos should make the apology on the family’s behalf, noting that the former first lady “knew everything” about martial law, including the assassination of Marcos’ political nemesis, former Sen. Benigno Aquino Jr.

“But in terms of the apology that I requested, it was from the mother, the head of the family, who knew everything, including the beginning of martial law, the good years before martial law, including what must have happened in August 1983,” he said.

Reacting to Imee’s comment, Ramos said the role he played in the historic 1986 Edsa People Power revolt that toppled the dictatorship was his atonement and “more than an apology” for his sins.

“I hope you people will remember your history. My apology was more than an apology. In the Christian tradition, you confess and then you atone. My atonement was leading the military and the police during the Edsa People Power Revolution from the 22nd to 25th of February in 1986. I stand by that record. It’s there in the history books,” the former President said.

“Our atonement at that time was we were ready to die—sacrificing life, family, and future. We laid it on the altar of our nationhood, and said take it away, because what were the odds? Marcos was the overwhelming force. They had the weapons, the chain of command, chief of staff of the Armed Forces under him. And so that was our atonement. Patay kung patay,” he added.

The Marcos patriarch was buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani last Friday in a secrecy-shrouded ceremony that sparked protests in various parts of the country. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court junked all petitions against President Rodrigo Duterte’s directive to bury Marcos at the heroes’ cemetery as part of his campaign promise, despite strong opposition from martial law victims, rights advocates and the general public.

Marcos’ burial at the LNMB, which saw full military honors including a 21-gun salute, came 30 years after he was toppled in the historic and military-backed Edsa People Power Revolution that ended his two-decade regime, which was marred by human rights abuses and corruption./rga

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Taiwan and Philippines undertake joint telecoms fraud raid in Cebu

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Manila, Nov. 21 (CNA) Law enforcement officials from Taiwan and the Philippines raided a telecoms fraud operation base in Cebu, the second largest city in the Philippines on Monday, arresting 24 suspects, including 19 Taiwanese nationals.

The Taiwanese nationals, 17 men and two women, as well as five Chinese were arrested by the Philippine authorities.

Acting on information provided by Taiwan’s Criminal Investigation Bureau, the National Bureau of Investigation of the Philippines raided the base of operations, seizing telecom equipment and handbooks on how to conduct telecoms fraud.

Filipino agents are checking the identities of the suspects as well as evidence collected at the location.

(By Emerson Lim and Lilian Wu)
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Source: http://focustaiwan.tw/

Scarborough Shoal To Remain Open To Philippine Fishermen, China

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Philippine fishermen will continue to have access to Scarborough Shoal, a fertile fishing ground in the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone that has been controlled by China for the past several years, Chinese President Xi Jinping said Nov. 20, the South China Morning Post reported, citing Chinese state-run media. Xi met with his Philippine counterpart, Rodrigo Duterte, on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Peru. Xi called for China and the Philippines to explore maritime cooperation in the area. He also pledged assistance to Philippine fishermen in alternative industries such as aquaculture. China has been blockading the rich fishing grounds since seizing the shoal, located around 120 miles from Luzon well within the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone, after a two-month standoff in 2012. Eight groups of Philippine fishermen reportedly entered the shoal without interference from the Chinese coast guard on Oct. 26.

Supreme Court asked to order exhumation of Marcos’ remains

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MANILA – Opposition lawmaker and Albay Representative Edcel Lagman urged the Supreme Court (SC) to order the exhumation of the remains of former President Ferdinand Marcos, three days after Marcos was interred at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (LNMB).

In an 8-page pleading filed with the high court before lunchtime on Monday, Lagman said the exhumation of Marcos’ remains was necessary since his burial was “premature, precipitate and irregular” on the basis that the decision allowing the burial “has not attained finality and was not executory.”

On November 8, the high court, voting 9-5, with one abstention, junked seven petitions assailing the move of President Duterte to allow Marcos’ interment at the LNMB. The ruling also ordered the lifting of a status quo ante order (SQAO) earlier issued that halted the burial for some two months.

“Since the object of the premature burial is the so-called interred ‘mortal remains’ of Marcos, perforce the same must be exhumed as a rectification of the void execution.

“The exhumation is imperative in order not to render moot and academic the petitioners’ forthcoming and seasonable motion/s for reconsideration, the resolution of which had been preempted by the precipitate burial in the wake of nationwide protests and cogent commentaries against the subject Decision of the [SC],” Lagman’s motion read.

The exhumation is also intended to “effectively censure and discipline” the Marcos family and top defense and military officials for their “disrespect” against the SC, the motion stressed.

The motion further pointed out that “with the inordinate haste and stealthy circumstances which shrouded the interment, there is no certainty as to what was actually buried in the LNMB.”

As such, Lagman asked that a forensic examination of the buried remains be conducted to determine whether what was actually interred were Marcos’ remains, and “not any other artifact or a wax replica of the late dictator, since his remains could have been buried decades ago in Batac, Ilocos Norte as he reportedly wished to be buried near his mother, the late Doña Josefa Edralin Marcos in Batac.”

Lagman also informed the high court that he will also be filing a pleading to cite respondents in contempt of court.

Another group of petitioners, led by former Bayan Muna Representative Saturnino Ocampo, filed a separate petition with the SC, also on Monday, to cite respondents in indirect contempt.

 

 

Source: http://news.abs-cbn.com/news

Duterte on Putin: We became ‘fast friends’

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LIMA, Peru — He just met his “idol” here last Saturday but President Rodrigo Duterte already considers Russia President Vladimir Putin and himself as “fast friends.”
Still delighted by his bilateral meeting with Putin, Duterte narrated to reporters Monday how the often poker-faced Russian leader smiled in his presence and repeatedly invited him to Russia.
“You know, we have become fast friends, President Putin and (China) President Xi Jinping,” Duterte said.
Duterte had a bilateral meeting with Xi on Sunday (Manila time) before his engagement with Putin.
Russian President Putin and Philippine President Duterte attend meeting on sidelines of APEC Summit in Lima
“His (Putin) smile was wide. According to news reports, he does not laugh. But he was smiling all along. He said ‘do not forget to visit Russia. I reserved something for you there.’ ‘True?’ ‘Gun.’ He loves guns,” Duterte said, adding that the Russian president is fond of hunting. “It seemed like we’ve known each other for so long and even the way we pat each other’s hand in a handshake. And you know, I didn’t realize then… before we were seated.”
Duterte said he and Putin were seated beside each other in one of the APEC sessions.
“I was talking with the, I think, the Premier of Vietnam. They were thanking me for the sailors that we sent home. We talked and when I finally sat down, I found out that President Putin was on my left side, so we shook hands,” Duterte said.
“And then after that, I shook his hands again and I finally said I’ll go ahead. Then he gestured to me ‘don’t forget to visit Russia,’” he added.
“He has extended the gracious invitation maybe about four times already. And maybe I will go… I shall go someday.”
During his bilateral meeting with Putin, Duterte assailed western countries, including the United States, for allegedly bullying smaller nations. He also told Putin that the US had forced its allies to join its wars.
Journalists who covered the event were not able to hear Putin’s response as they were already asked to leave the venue while Duterte was talking. Presidential Communications Secretary Martin Andanar said Duterte merely explained to Putin the context and the reasons behind his tirades against the West.

 

Asked how Putin responded to Duterte’s statements, national security adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr., who was present during the meeting, said: “Generally, what President Putin said is that we share your sentiments…”

 “He said ‘our assessments coincide in many respects,’” he added without elaborating.
Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez, who was also in the meeting, said Putin lauded Duterte’s firmness.
“Something was said about his being firm, perhaps in a way, he would no longer be bullied, something like that,” Lopez said.
Asked if the president was happy that he finally met Putin, Esperon replied: “We were also happy.”
Source: http://www.philstar.com/