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 early
evening.
Manny Pacquiao
(right) connects against Juan Miguel Marquez during
their championship fight in Las Vegas on Sunday. The
fight went to 12 rounds, and Pacquiao won by split
decision. AFP Photo
PacMan takes WBC title from Marquez of Mexico
LAS VEGAS: Manny Pacquiao captured the World Boxing Council (WBC)
super featherweight crown,
dethroning Mexico’s Juan Manuel Marquez with a
12-round split decision victory.
Just hours after Manny Pacquiao won the WBC super featherweight
title from Juan Manuel Marquez of Mexico, copies of their 12-round
fight were available on DVDs at P70 a pop.
Government, rights victims lay claim to $40-million
account with Meryll Lynch
THE government and victims of human rights abuses during the reign
of former strongman Ferdinand Marcos clash today before the United
States Supreme Court over the $40-million account stashed at Merrill
Lynch, which is allegedly part of the ill-gotten wealth of the
Marcoses.
ZAMBOANGA CITY: The Commission on Election (Comelec) is set to
conduct an information and education campaign in the Autonomous
Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) in preparation for the coming
automated election, reported the Philippine News Agency.
Filipinos set aside political problems Sunday and celebrated boxing
superstar Manny Pacquiao’s sensational WBC superfeatherweight
victory over Mexico’s Juan Miguel Marquez.
AN Open Source developer house put up by a
“balikbayan” technopreneur shall bankroll this year 20 to 30
startups to be established by Filipinos seeking global markets for
SaaS, or “software as a service” applications.
AFTER about a year of prodding by financial market players, the
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) finally succumbed to calls to
limit access to a facility meant to temper inflation.
BEIJING: China declared a “people’s war” in Tibet on Sunday
following the biggest uprising against Chinese rule there in nearly
20 years, as it smothered the region’s once peaceful capital with
security forces.
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