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Inquirer  on Kobe Bryant KOBE BRYANT will go down in history as the best player of his basketball era. The numbers that he accumulated throughout his career as a member of the Los Angeles  Lakers do not pay him sufficient homage. He is more than the championship trophies, the MVP awards, the statistics, the jerseys, the arena seats sold, and the fans  collected. [full text] Sun.Star Cebu  on Cebu politics “Weder-weder lang” surfaced in the months going into the mid-term elections in 2013 with the suspension by Malacañang of then governor Gwendolyn Garcia, allowing LP  stalwarts to take over the Capitol for the duration of the campaign period. One Cebu gubernatorial bet Pablo John Garcia eventually lost to the LP’s Hilario Davide  III. [...] Yesterday, officials of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) 7 implemented Malacañang’s order to suspend Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama for 60 days. [full text] Manila Bulletin   about P...

Inquirer  on climate conference in Paris Developments in the negotiations [of the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21)], now down to the last two days of an exhausting fortnight, may still prevent the “Draft  Paris Outcome” from taking off. Perhaps countries like Saudi Arabia may balk if full decarbonization is adopted as an objective; perhaps energy-hungry economies like  India or China may resist strong language about limiting the rise in global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. [...]  The sluggish pace of negotiations over the language of the draft agreement and its implementing decision prompted the French hosts—under the UN system, the hosts  serve as president of the conference and enjoy a wide latitude for initiative—to fast-track the talks, at the same time preserving the openness of the process which  the French presidency put in place.  [full text] Sun.Star Cebu  on the new Cebu police director Chief...