Central and Southern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao will experience mostly cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms. The rest of the country will be partly cloudy to at times cloudy with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms mostly in the afternoon or evening.
MANNY PACQUIAO
(right) connects against David Diaz during the seventh
round of their WBC lightweight championship fight. AFP Photo
Manny wins fourth title after 9th-round KO
LAS VEGAS: Filipino champion Manny Pacquiao added another world
title to his growing collection by dethroning David Diaz in a World
Boxing Council lightweight bout at the Mandalay Bay hotel on Sunday.
Pacquiao floored Diaz with 36 seconds left in
the ninth round to end the fight, becoming the first Asian to win
titles in four different weight classes.
Sen. Pia Cayetano, chairman of the Senate
Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, said Sunday that the
Fertilizer and Pesticides Authority (FPA) should explain why it had
lifted the ban on endosulfan, a highly toxic chemical.
President Gloria Arroyo and the Republican
presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain, met and agreed to further
strengthen relations between the Philippines and the United States.
Rebels say Typhoon Frank exacerbated existing rice
crisis in the region
SAN JOSE, Antique: Communist rebels on Panay Island declared a
unilateral ceasefire for two weeks to give way to typhoon relief
operations, reported Panay News over the weekend.
A BATTERED David Diaz was arguably still
counting sheep when newly crowned World Boxing Council (WBC)
lightweight champion Manny Pacquiao started talking about the fights
he really wants.
Bangkok: In terms of today’s market share in
the graphics card arena, ATI is taking a beating from Nvidia.
ATI’s archrival in the video card market took advantage of the
lull that quickly ensued when chip manufacturer, AMD, acquired
ATI’s business in a whopping $5.4-billion deal in 2006. But now,
ATI top honchos say that’s about to change.
Every time we see the former social welfare secretary “Dinky”
Corazon Juliano Soliman we recall that just hours before she began
attacking her old friend, benefactress and boss she was lustily
singing “If We Hold On Together.”
TOKYO: The Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations will jointly
invest more than $10 billion a year on research and development of
technology to combat global warming, a report said Sunday.
Working in other countries is a dream for many
Filipinos. Despite family separation, prejudice and maltreatment,
Filipinos persist working abroad to earn better pay.
