PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House Perhaps the confluence of time, circumstance, and geography brought this columnist into close contact with three of the most catastrophic wars in the world. The first was the Pacific War (1941 to 1945),which was ignited by the bombing of...
Samantha Catantan during the US NCAA Fencing Championship in Pennsylvania. (US NCAA Images) Penn State University freshman Samantha Catantan is set to see action in the National American Cup on June 4 to 7 at the Greater Richmond Convention Center in Virginia, USA. This will be the first tournament...
Samantha Catantan, right, with Philippine fencing team coach Amat Canlas during the Olympic Qualifying Tournament (OQT) in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. (Photo from Amat Canlas) Filipino fencing star Samantha Catantan is set to arrive from the US this month to compete in the national team tryout on July 3...
Eumir Marcial Tokyo Olympics-bound boxer Eumir Marcial has earned a bye as he moved to the quarterfinal at the start of the ASBC Elite Men and Women Boxing Championships Monday night, May 24 in Dubai. The 25-year-old Marcial, the top seed among the 12 participants in the 75-kilogram middleweight...
Richard Gomez Ormoc City Mayor Richard Gomez said that the sports facilities in their area are available for national athletes with disabilities as they prepare for the ASEAN Para Games in Hanoi, Vietnam. Gomez, a former national athlete, said that the Philippine fencing team will have their bubble...
Philippine Sports Commission Chairman Butch Ramirez, left, and Philippine Olympic Committee President Bambol Tolentino (MB Photo / PNA Photo) The national government has granted the request for national team athletes to get their vaccines for COVID-19 as the Inter-Agency Task Force elevated the...
The cargo vessel MV Athens Bridge, which carried the nine Filipino seafarers infected with the so-called India variant of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), has already departed last week for a travel to Vietnam, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said on Wednesday, May 19. PCG Commander Michael...
The Philippines would rather live in peace than fight alongside the United States in any of war or conflict, President Duterte declared in a recent public address. President Rodrigo Duterte (File photo/Malacañang) The President, still bearing a grudge for the past US colonial rule over the...
A Vietnamese woman died from COVID-19 in Laos on Sunday, according to state-run media, marking the first death from the disease in the impoverished communist country. Reclusive, landlocked Laos had appeared to escape the brunt of the pandemic in 2020, but a community outbreak uncovered last month...
Following the successful stint of the national weightlifting team in the recently concluded Asian Championship in Uzbekistan, Samahang Weightlifting ng Pilipinas (SWP) president Monico Puentevella said he is likely to retain the setup in terms of preparation for the 31st Southeast Asian Games in...
The Philippine National Volleyball Federation Inc. (PNVF) kicks off its 31 st Southeast Asian Games preparations by holding tryouts for indoor and beach volleyball teams starting Wednesday, April 28, at the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority. The tryouts will be held for one day for each team,...
Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) President Abraham ‘Bambol’ Tolentino talks about the country’s campaigns in the Tokyo Olympics and the Vietnam Southeast Asian Games, respectively, with vaccines for COVID-19 coming its way when he appears as special guest in Tuesday’s Philippine...
