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MANILA - Customs police on Thursday lodged a complaint against two Philippine suspects over the alleged illegal importation of about 3.5 tons of elephant tusks from Tanzania, the justice department said.
Two shipments of ivory that were fraudulently declared as plastics products, arrived at the port of Manila from Dar es Salaam in March and were seized after a customs inspection, the department said in a statement. Customs police estimated the shipment was worth at least P240.85 million ($5.12 ...
Floyd Mayweather Jr. has said he is ready to make the big-money fight with newly crowned WBO welterweight world champion Manny Pacquiao happen, CNN reported.
After victory in Las Vegas over Puerto Rico's Miguel Cotto on Saturday, Pacquiao's trainer Freddie Roach said the "whole world" now wanted to see a fight with Mayweather.
Reacting to the proposition the undefeated 32-year-old, who formerly held the WBC title at welterweight, told British broadcaster Sky Sports: "If he wants to fight Floyd...
No, it wasn't because Hillary Clinton was coming. The sudden release of Micheal Sinnott was because of someone else: the world's top pound-for-pound boxer. The Irish priest said his captors decided to get him out of the jungles of Mindanao as early as possible because they wanted to catch Manny Pacquiao's fight with Puerto Rican Miguel Cotto. "Your freedom is our freedom. We don't want to be here for a long time, too. And we want to watch Pacquiao's fight," Sinnott said on Saturday, qu...
MANILA – It is probably the worst-kept secret in Philippine politics today. Or perhaps they’re just playing coy.
Nacionalista Party presidential candidate Manny Villar is expected to name Senator Loren Legarda as his running mate for the May 2010 elections within the next few days, paving the way for a working coalition between the NP and the Nationalist People’s Coalition, of which Legarda is a member.
This marks the second attempt by Legarda to become vice president. ...
MANILA - Philippines police broke up an anti-US protest near the American mission here Wednesday on the eve of a visit by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, officials said.
About 70 students scuffled with riot police before being pushed back from the mission's gates, an AFP photographer on the scene said. No one was seriously hurt in the melee, police said.
Chanting anti-American slogans, members of the left-leaning League of Filipino Students burned a poster of Uncle Sam and demanded the pul...
ZAMBOANGA - Al Qaeda-linked militants abducted at least four factory workers in the southern Philippines Tuesday, police said, a day after authorities found the severed head of a previous kidnap victim.
Armed men in military-style uniforms seized the workers from the Hitech Wood Craft Corp. in Maluso town on Basilan island before dawn, said provincial police chief Abubakar Tulawie.
The national police headquarters in Manila named four of the victims but said they were seized together with an...
LEGASPI - Four policemen were killed when their vehicle hit a mine planted by communist rebels south of the Philippines capital, in an ambush that also left one insurgent dead, police said Tuesday.
Four other police officers were wounded in the attack by guerrillas from the communist New People's Army (NPA) in Bulan town on Monday, police said.
Soldiers who rushed to the scene of the blast engaged rebels in a gun battle that left one of the guerrillas dead, the report added. Police provincia...
MANILA -- Filinvest Land, Inc., one of the country’s biggest and most diverse property developers, has rolled out the red carpet for more than 100,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and balikbayans expected to come home for Christmas.
The company recently launched a red-carpet welcome program dubbed “Handog ng Filinvest sa Iyong Pagbabalik” to pay tribute to OFWs who play a vital role in the country’s economic development through their remittances projected to ...
TAGUIG - Two million people living around a huge lake east of the Philippine capital could spend Christmas with their homes partly submerged, after slapdash development left floodwaters nowhere to go.
The mish-mash of farms, shantytowns, housing developments, factories and tourist resorts around Laguna de Bay remain swamped with muddy water following the September 26 floods which killed nearly 300 people in and around Manila.
The area around the lake has six million residents and 2.2 million o...
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