The Big One is defined as a “strong and damaging” earthquake scenario. (File Photo / Phivolcs) As explained by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs), this is also often equated to the worst-case earthquake that may happen in the Greater Metro Manila Area. However,...
Pasay City Mayor Emi Calixto-Rubiano is aiming for single-digit COVID-19 cases in the city. The City Health Office recorded 36 active cases on Nov. 23 and nine new cases. Rubiano said the city government can achieve this if residents will continue to follow the local basic health protocols such as...
ONE FOR THE ROAD James Deakin Last September, El Salvador became the first country in the world to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender; two months later, just last Friday, their president, Nayib Bukele, shocked the world once again with the announcement of Bitcoin City –– a digital investor’s...
Alex Silva (ONE Championship) Former ONE Strawweight World Champion Alex “Little Rock” Silva and former top contender Rene “The Challenger” Catalan have come a long way since their first meeting eight years ago. But unlike their initial fight, which took place when...
Team Lakay head coach Mark Sangiao earned his moniker "The Machine" back from his heydays as one of the most renowned mixed martial artists in the Philippines. Team Lakay coach Mark Sangiao (right) with sons Jhanlo (center) and Marko As a professional MMA fighter, Sangiao, now 42, had seven wins...
Editorial Christmas is approaching — 34 days to go! So is the specter of a new wave of COVID-19 cases. Let’s not repeat the mistake of Christmas 1918, during the Spanish flu pandemic, when, as World War I ended in November and Christmas was around the bend, homecoming dinners, holiday shopping,...
Three-term Sen. Loren Legarda Celebrities and some parents of school age children, lauded House Bill No. 10405, also known as the “One Tablet, One Student Act of 2021” recently filed by three-term Senator Loren Legarda, that seeks to provide each student from public elementary, secondary, state...
Lito Adiwang (ONE Championship) Lito “Thunder Kid” Adiwang wants to show the world that ONE Championship has the best strawweights, and at ONE: NEXTGEN III he’ll have the perfect opportunity to do so. Adiwang takes on Jarred “The Monkey God”...
Kevin Belingon hopes to enter the winning column when he faces Korean opponent Kwon Won Il in ONE: Winter Warriors II on Dec. 17 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. Kevin Belingon (ONE Championship) Belingon, a former ONE world bantamweight champion, considered this fight as one of the many important...
Stephen Loman is not new to the sport of mixed martial arts but his transition to being a debutant in a new promotion kept him grounded through the months. Stephen Loman (BRAVE CF) Loman, a long-time bantamweight champion in Bahrain-based promotion BRAVE Combat Federation, is set to enter the...
A coalition of 170 organizations and 77,000 individuals is calling on President Duterte to withhold his approval for the construction of the Pasig River Expressway (PAREX) until the project details are known and a "normal due diligence is conducted" on it. In a letter to Duterte dated Thursday,...
Kristine Stewart in 'Spencer' Cinema One is treating movie lovers to a drive-in screening of the critically-acclaimed film “Spencer” about a tense Christmas holiday in the life of the late Princess Diana as portrayed by American actress Kristen Stewart. Happening this Dec. 4 (Saturday) at the...
