MANILA, Philippines  – Antonio Margarito’s chief trainer Roberto Garcia yesterday said his ward will use his brute strength and height advantage against Filipino boxing legend Manny Pacquiao even as he expressed confidence of Margarito’s victory in their upcoming fight in November in Texas. “Margarito has the strength, the power, he’s hungry to be the…

MANILA (AFP) – – The Philippines on Sunday ordered all government offices to tighten Internet security after its main information website was brought down by hackers. “We are alerting all government agencies to review and improve security of their websites in view of the hacking of the website this afternoon,” presidential spokesman Herminio Coloma…

Despite the criticisms hurled at the media for the way they covered last Monday’s hostage crisis, most of them observed journalist manuals and safety guidelines on dangerous assignments, and only a few seemed unaware of such guidelines. But one thing was clear. They all took their cues mainly from the police on the ground….

Maria Venus Raj of the Philippines was named 4th runner-up during the Miss Universe 2010 held earlier today, August 24 (Philippine time), at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. Jimena Navarrete, 22, of Mexico was crowned Miss Universe. This is the second time that Mexico took home the crown; the first…

MANILA — Philippine police conceded Tuesday they made blunders in ending a bus hijacking as outrage grew over the bloody assault played out on live television that left eight Hong Kong tourists dead. Commandos fired dozens of bullets into the bus and smashed its windows with sledgehammers as they tried to storm it, but…

Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt  and their six kids are reportedly househunting in Budapest, Hungary, so the actress can make her directorial debut with a film about the war in Yugoslavia at the beginning of the 1990s. Jolie spent the weekend scouting for locations in the city with the couple’s two-year-old twins, Knox and Vivienne,…

The province of Bohol has always held much fascination for me. An island located in central Visayas, it has always been in my consciousness, thanks to schoolbooks that touted that geographical oddity called the Chocolate Hills as the eighth wonder of the world; and, more recently, the promotion and preservation of the province’s cultural…