Qatar Daily News

Smart Gilas Pilipinas showed the other facet of its game as it shellacked host Qatar with its newfound defense, 46-38, late Friday night in the first of an exhibition series in its two-week Middle East sojourn.

Playing before a loud, predominantly Filipino crowd at the jampacked Al Gharaf Stadium in Doha, Qatar, the Nationals kept the Qataris out of their comfort zone with a nearly impenetrable interior defense to jumpstart its series of exhibition games culminating in the prestigious Dubai Invitational slated Jan. 14-23.
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Popular Filipino television and movie actress Isabel Granada has just finished filming an international suspense-thriller “Pirate’s Blood” after their location shooting in Oman last year that took them months mostly along the great beaches of the country.

Isabel, who was here on Thursday for a promo of Natasha products at Doha Seef Hotel, told The Peninsula in an interview that the film story is all about seven people of different nationalities who meet and hatch a plan to go treasure hunting. Unfortunately for them, a pirate had been guarding the treasure, which makes for the climax of the story as the action-filled misadventures of the seven friends start to unfold in these scenes.

Isabel is proud to say the movie will come out internationally since the stars have their own legion of fans in their respective countries that the Omani and Indian producers believed could make for a good market in many parts of the globe.
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Filipino workers in Dubai and the Northern Emirates are urged to register with the Philippine Overseas Labour Office (POLO) immediately if their services have been terminated for possible jobs in Qatar.

Philippine Labour Attache in Dubai Viriginia P. Calvez issued this advice after 39 Filipino workers from the construction industry received their termination letters from their employers and left for Manila last week.

“Any displaced workers here, who may not have the time to come to POLO to register, may proceed to the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration in Manila upon their arrival there for the same purpose,” she said.
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