Paul Butler showed technical and smart boxing to score a unanimous decision win over Jonas Sultan and claim the World Boxing Organization (WBO) interim bantamweight title at the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool, England Friday, April 22 there (early Saturday morning in Manila). Paul Butler (left)...
Jonas Sultan has stepped up against English boxer Paul Butler as a replacement for World Boxing Organization bantamweight champion John Riel Casimero. Jonas Sultan (AFP) Sultan and Butler will clash in an interim bantamweight contest on April 22, Friday at the Echo Arena in Liverpool following the...
World Boxing Organization (WBO) bantamweight champion John Riel Casimero found himself in another dilemma after violating certain weight cut and medical guidelines prior to his mandatory title defense against English challenger Paul Butler on April 22. JOHN RIEL CASIMERO Casimero just risked...
Día del Libro is back! Did you know that Spanish novelist Miguel de Cervantes and English playwright William Shakespeare both died on the same day? Two of history's greatest writers coincidentally passed away on April 23, 1616. And this prompted UNESCO to declare in 1995 that from then on April 23...
Noting that the Filipino commuters are suffering because of the inefficient public transportation system in Metro Manila, human rights lawyer Chel Diokno on Tuesday, April 19, questioned the government’s slow implementation of the bus rapid transit (BRT) project in Metro Manila that could’ve...
Fencer Maxine Esteban swept her pool matches to advance to the knockout stage of the World Senior Cup in Belgrade, Serbia. Photo from Maxine Esteban's Facebook account Esteban scored six points in Pool 7 after beating Slovakia’s Gaia Cantucci, Japan’s Haruka Umetsu, Poland’s Martyna Dlugosz,...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on November 30, 2021 a doctor vaccinates a patient against Covid-19 at a vaccination center in Sonthofen, southern Germany, amid the ongoing coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. Germany's parliament on April 7, 2022 rejected a government-backed proposal for mandatory...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres For the people of Ukraine, the Russian invasion is a waking nightmare, and a humanitarian disaster on a terrifying scale. But the war is also fast becoming a matter of life and death for vulnerable people around the world. We have all seen the tragedy...
K-pop boy band BTS not only won Favorite Music Group at the Kids’ Choice Awards (KCA) 2022 but broke their own world record as well. Guinness World Records announced on April 12 that BTS set a new record for the most KCA blimps won by a music group with six, eclipsing their own record set last...
With its shared goal to condemn sexual harrasment and abuse, various women-led organizations, on Tuesday, April 12, publicly denounced the “black operations” that aims to destroy women candidates, their families, and supporters by spreading deep-fake and lewd photographs and videos. “The...
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang (MLBB) is gearing up for its biggest 515 celebration in the Philippines yet—with bigger in-games, exciting new skins for fan-favorite characters, and even an activity that will bring the much-awaited event closer to Filipinos this year. With the theme “We Better Than...
The first integrated resort in the Philippines is also the first in the Asia-Pacific to switch to cage-free eggs I LOVE EARTH Resorts World Manila’s general managers and their chefs at the launch of its Sustainable Culinary initiative advocating the use of cage-free eggs (from left) Jan Marshall...
