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Happy New Year to my blogger friends, readers, commenters, Entrecard droppers and lurkers!

I have decided that I am going to take a blogging break this holiday season so that I can spend some precious time with my family and concentrate on some serious business stuff!

The 60th edition of the Miss Universe pageant is scheduled to be held in September 12, 2011 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The news came out after Miss Universe 2010 Jimena Navarrete (@TheRealMissU), tweeted the information. She said:

Ms. Cory Quirino has been named the new Miss World director for the Philippines!

Strange but true!!! Chinese archaeologists believe they have discovered a 2,400 year-old bowl of soup….and it’s still in liquid form! The culinary find was dug up from a tomb near the ancient capital of Xian. Sealed in a three-legged bronze cooking pot, the culinary find is 8 inches high and 10 inches in diameter and [...]

Rozalia Mancewics was crowned Miss Polonia Universe 2011 during the glitzy ceremony held in Lodz International Fair EXPO on December 11, 2010. She bested 18 candidates for the title and won the right to represent the country at the Miss Universe 2011 in August next year. The 23 year old beauty is also pageant veteran as [...]

Olesya Stefanko was crowned Miss Ukraine 2011 at the glittering ceremony held at Kyiv’s Art & Culture Center on Saturday, December 11, 2010. The 22-year-old beauty is a law student at the Odessa Law Academy and a fashion model who stands 178 cm tall. She received a golden necklace adorned with precious stones and the [...]

Yesterday, the Pasig City Regional Trial Court (RTC) dismissed the video scandal case against ex-doctor Hayden Kho Jr. due to ‘insufficiency of evidence’. The court also sacked the P100 million civil damages claimed by actress Katrina Halili against Kho.

Hubert Jeffrey Webb has been acquitted in the Vizconde Massacre case. The Supreme Court justices voted 7-4-4 in favor of acquittal (7 voted for acquittal, 4 inhibited and 4 for guilty).

Bokang Montjane was crowned Miss South Africa 2010-2011 at Sun City on December 12, 2010. The 24 year old beauty from Honeydew Ridge, Johannesburg runs a modeling school based in Auckland Park. Dhesha Jeram from Contantia, Cape Town was adjudged first princess while Bianca Coutinho from Bedforfview, Johannesburg clinched the second princess title.