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

...  Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach said that four to five weeks of the training will be in the Philippines and the rest will be at his famous Wild Card Gym in Hollywood, California. ...

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

... the China Daily reported, citing Philippine Department of Tourism Undersecretary Simeon Marfori. Manila, PHILIPPINES : Filipino Gregorio Mendoza (R), brother of the hostage-taker Rolando Mendoz...

3. Bigger FDI inflows seen alongside faster economy
(Business/Business)

... after the election, the continued global economic recovery and the sustained macroeconomic stability in the Philippines, I think we should see an increase in FDI,” Bangko Sentral ng Pilipina...

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

Senators Francis Pangilinan and Joker Arroyo said Sunday that enough apologies had already been given by the Philippines on the death of eight Hong Kong tourists held hostage by a dismissed Manila p

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

...;Globally, emerging markets are experiencing [an] increase in foreign exchange inflows and that includes the Philippines. Of course, we also have remittances. Business process outsourcing is also s...

6. Salvador is Philippines’ new chess Grandmaster
(Sports/Sports)

ROLAND SALVADOR becomes the Philippines’ newest chess Grandmaster (GM). Salvador formally took the GM title during the 11th edition of the International Chess Tournament Fermo-Porto San Giorg

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

...ing camera) on Friday during a probe of the August 23 hostage-taking. PHOTO BY MIGUEL DE GUZMAN   The Philippines is considering paying compensation  to families of eight Hong Kong tour...

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

...hat. “We continue to experience a high client demand, specifically for customer service support in the Philippines,” Marife Zamora, Convergys Philippines country manager and managing di...

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

... contained spare parts for a cargo vessel. It was supposed to be delivered to Hanjin Heavy Industries Corp.-Philippines in January 2009. The parts were estimated to be worth $1.5 million. Another ...

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

... of Quezon City granted the request of Andal Jr. that was filed last week by lawyer Sigfrid Fortun. Manila, PHILIPPINES: Jail guards patrol atop the high walls of the Bureau of Jail Management and ...

11. Foreigners complain of Aquino’s mining ‘policy’
(Business/Business)

...s unsettling the investor community at a time when the government is courting private sector support for the Philippines’ infrastructure development in the next six years. “Foreign i...

12. August revenues likely short of goal
(Business/Business)

By Katrina Mennen A. Valdez Reporter The Philippines’ two main revenue-generating agencies conceded they would fall short of their tax collection targets for a second month since the Aquino

13. So, Laylo bounce back in Campo Cup
(Sports/Sports)

BY EMIL C. NOGUERA REPORTER Grandmasters (GM) Wesley So and Darwin Laylo of the Philippines blasted separate foes to keep the Philippine flag flying in the first former FIDE President Florencio C

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

...eal service and real concerned be given,” Pabillo added. At the Mass were Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Liu Jianchao, Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa, Justice Secretary Leila de...

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

... 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 LAURETA   The seven recipient...

16. 7-year rate plummets on excess liquidity
(Business/Business)

...d to spur slowing growth. “This means there are no reasons for investors to demand higher because we [Philippines] are extremely liquid as against [the] US,” Tan said. The government i...

17. So absorbs first loss in Campo Cup
(Sports/Sports)

...f the Slav to beat the Filipino champion in the tournament organized by the National Chess Federation of the Philippines. Le, a champion in the ninth Aeroflot Open and runner-up in the prestigious...

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

... said that there was no evidence to support any of the rumors. “We do not see the emergence of an anti-Philippines sentiment in Hong Kong,” he told a press briefing. “I have aske...

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

...er more speculations and further fuel tensions between the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the Philippines. “It’s a basic principle in any investigation that there shou...

20. Stocks, peso seen to tread shaky ground on US woes
(Business/Business)

...ead a rather shaky ground in anticipation of a rise in the US’ unemployment rate. Analysts said the Philippines’ strong economic fundamentals and the rosy corporate earnings may not ...

21. 3 RP chessers slide to third in Campo Cup
(Sports/Sports)

...Georgia to raise his score to 1.5 points in the tournament organized by the National Chess Federation of the Philippines . Nolte and Nadera also split the point with sixth seed GM Li Chao of China...

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

...URETA   A lovely lass based in the United States bested 23 other candidates from different parts of the Philippines and the world who competed in this year’s Mutya ng Pilipinas at the ne...

23. Same probe results a must
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

...Hong Kong government has decided to conduct [its] own autopsy on the victims. It would not look good for the [Philippines] if the results of the two separate inquiries are not the same. The Hong Kon...

24. Yes, the poor also use Facebook
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

...elax],” she said. Professor Bobi Luciano, a sociologist teaching at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines, said that there are underlying reasons for this reality. “Of course,...

25. Bautista, 3 other Pinoy boxers triumph
(Sports/Sports)

...tle Pacquiao” Condes all scored impressive victories against their respective foreign opponents as the Philippines won all bouts. Bautista’s hard punches struck so hard to Barrera, the ...

26. 4.5M Pinoys have diabetes, 8.5M-plus have prediabetes
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

...ention of the Philippine Association of Diabetes Educators and Association of Diabetes Nurse Educators of the Philippines which began on Friday and closed yesterday at the Century Park Hotel Manila ...

27. Family, friends bury Luneta hostage-taker
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

Batangas, PHILIPPINES : Relative of Rolando Mendoza (lower), the ex-policeman who hijacked a bus in Manila on August 23, triggering a hostage crisis in which eight Hong Kong tourists were killed, v

28. RP is online video-watching capital
(Business/Business)

BY DARWIN G. AMOJELAR SENIOR REPORTER THE Philippines is not only the text messaging capital of the world, but also has emerged as the world’s top user of YouTube and other video-sharing we

29. US woes pull down local market
(Business/Business)

...e uncertainty in the US market. There are concerns that weakness in the US will translate to weakness in the Philippines,” said April Lee-Tan of CitisecOnline. Dow Jones closed below the 10,...

30. HK lawmaker doubts Manila investigations
(Manila Times News/Latest News)

.... According to Cheung Man-kwong of the Democratic Party, findings of the investigations being conducted by the Philippines would not convince Hong Kong people because Manila would rely only on stateme...