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1. Pacquiao prepares for Margarito fight
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

BY JUN MEDINA SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Manny Pacquiao   WASHINGTON, D.C.: Manny Pacquiao will embark on an eight-week training camp starting the third week of this month to prepare for his bi

2. RP police lack negotiators
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

No manual on hostage situations Chief Insp. Wam Siu-Hung (left) and Supt. Man Tat-Shing (right) of the Hong Kong police listen as Manila Police District Supt. Orlando Yebra testifies during a hear

3. Chinese scrap Manila travel after hijacking
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

...estures while giving testimony during a hearing at the Department of Justice in Manila on September 6, 2010. The Philippine government's Incident Investigation and Review Committee (IIRC) contin...

4. New Zealand govt extends emergency in quake-hit city
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

...Christchurch on September 6, damaged after a powerful earthquake which struck the city on September 4, 2010. The rubble-strewn heart of Christchurch resembled a ghost town as the New Zealand army t...

5. New Zealand city braces for more destruction
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

Structural inspectors crouch by rubble and check a building’s condition in New Zealand’s second largest city Christchurch on Sunday. AFP PHOTO     CHRISTCHURCH: New Zealand p

6. Wozniacki-Sharapova duel set, Federer in
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

...turns a shot against Beatrice Capra of the United States during the women’s singles match of the 2010 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York City. AFP PHOTO ...

7. 5,000 law graduates take Bar exams
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

ABOUT 5,000 law graduates took the first two subjects in the 2010 Bar examinations on Sunday at the De La Salle University (DLSU) in Manila. Staying true to the tradition, students from different

8. NO NEED FOR MORE APOLOGIES
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

...pay their respects to tour guide Masa Tse Ting-chunn in a funeral parlour in Hong Kong on September 5, 2010. Tse was killed on August 23 in the Philippines along with seven other Hong Kong resident...

9. BSP set to hike 2010 dollar surplus forecast
(Business/Business)

BY LAILANY P. GOMEZ REPORTER THE Philippine central bank is set to review its balance of payments (BOP) projection for this year, with the possibility of raising its forecast amid healthy numbers

10. Manila to pay victims’ kin
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

Govt plan answers Hong Kong demand Justice Secretary Leila de Lima poses a question to Local Government Undersecretary Rico Puno (back facing camera) on Friday during a probe of the August 23 hosta

11. Aquino vows support for BPO sector
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

By Cris G. Odronia Reporter President Benigno Aquino 3rd unveils the marker of the new center of Convergys on Friday in Manila during ceremonies that were attended by Mayor Alfredo Lim and the comp

12. Customs, Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority seize abandoned vans
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

SUBIC Bay Freeport: The Bureau of Customs-Subic and the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) seized an abandoned cargo of mostly assorted household items and equipment worth more than P106 millio

13. PASTA DELIGHT
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

Hundreds of people gather around the biggest pasta bowl with eight flavors that went on display at SM City Baguio City on Friday during the start of the Seventh Hotel and Restaurant Weekend in the c

14. Leading indicators point to slower 3Q rise
(Business/Business)

...ndex (LEI). “The composite leading economic indicator continued to rise in the third quarter of 2010 but at a pace not as remarkable as in the first two quarters of the year,” state-ru...

15. Pacquiao, Margarito promise great fight
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

Pacquiao and Margarito hold the WBC world junior welterweight belt that will be at stake in their November 13 fight to be held at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium. PHOTO BY CHRIS FARINA OF TOP RANK &nbs

16. Hungry flood-hit Pakistanis protest lack of help
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Bssera, PAKISTAN: Pakistanis displaced by floods take shelter underneath charpois (bedsteads) in Bssera in Muzaffargarh district on Tuesday. The World Food Programme on August 31, warned that flo

17. Japan PM, rival kick off party leadership battle
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

TOKYO: Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan and his rival, powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa, kicked off a leadership battle on Wednesday that threatens to divide the ruling party only a year after it took

18. Judge defers hearing on Ampatuan case
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

BY JEFFERSON ANTIPORDA REPORTER A scheduled hearing on the Maguindanao massacre was delayed again on Wednesday after a Regional Trial Court that was to try the case granted a motion filed by prin

19. Church warns vs. whitewash
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

Justice for all hostage victims –Manila bishop BY JOMAR CANLAS REPORTER Catholic bishops and priests led by Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo (center) sprinkle holy water at the site of last

20. Ramon Magsaysay Awardees ‘selfless’
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

President Benigno Aquino 3rd poses with the winners of the 2010 Ramon Magsaysay Awards at the Main Theater of the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Pasay City on Tuesday. PHOTO BY JESSIE LAURET

21. USA narrowly escapes BRAZIL in Istanbul thriller
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

The United States narrowly avoided a shock upset at the hands of Group B rivals Brazil to come through 70-68 winners at the World Basketball Championships here on Monday. With just two groups i

22. Taiwan set to deploy cruise missiles
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TAIPEI: Taiwan plans to deploy its own cruise missiles by the end of this year, a lawmaker and military pundit said on Tuesday, reflecting continued tension with China despite warming ties. Tai

23. Top cue masters in 10-Ball tourney
(Sports/Sports)

...te, who will be awarded with the Billiard Congress of America’s Hall of Fame in October, won the 2010 edition of the prestigious World 9-Ball Championships in July in Doha, Qatar. EMIL C. NO...

24. Hong Kong downplays anti-Philippine sentiment
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

The forensic team arrives at Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City, (Metro Manila), where the bus is impounded. AFP PHOTO   HONG KONG: Hong Kong authorities on Monday said that there was no anti-Phili

25. De Lima gags hijack probers
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

HK police in Manila on ‘observer status’ BY ROMMEL C. LONTAYAO REPORTER Members of a Hong Kong police forensic team examine on Monday the tourist bus that figured in the hostage-taking

26. Woods cruises into second round of PGA playoffs
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

Tiger Woods breezed into the next round of the PGA Tour’s playoffs Sunday, by firing a fourth round four-under 67 in his first tournament since finalizing his divorce. His performance Sunda

27. Flood spares Pakistan city
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

THATTA, Pakistan: A torrent of water threatening to deluge a major town in flood-hit Pakistan has began to recede, officials said on Monday, as emergency workers plugged a breach in defenses against

28. NTC to slap higher fees on telcos, broadcast companies
(Business/Business)

...10-97 or the SUF for 2G operators has to be reviewed to increase government revenue collections. For 2010, the government is targeting a P325-billion budget shortfall or 3.9 percent of gross domest...

29. Thousands flee as Indonesia volcano erupts
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

A man and his son look as the Sinabung volcano spews thick smoke in Karo district in North Sumatra on Sunday. AFP PHOTO ]   JAKARTA: A volcano on the Indonesian island of Sumatra erupted for the

30. East Coast beauty takes top 2010 Mutya title
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

The top winners of Sunday’s 2010 Mutya ng Pilipinas pageant pose for the media. They are: Christi Lynn Ashley McGarry (second from right) who took home the top Mutya ng Pilipinas Asia-Pacific