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RENO, Nev. - University of Nevada swimmers Marichi Gandionco and Heidi Gem Ong will represent the Philippines at the 25th Southeast Asia Games being held Dec. 9-18 at Vientiane, Laos. Both swimmers are from Quezon City and are scheduled to take the pool on Thursday.
With 2008's The Quilt , Gym Class Heroes hit the charts with an increased focus on hip-hop and pop, including cameos from Busta Rhymes, U.K. upstart Estelle, and production from A-list hitmakers The-Dream and Cool & Dre. But with their next release, the New York quartet is returning to their roots. "All I got to say is it's definitely going back to the essence of Gym Class Heroes, which is four ...
Malaysian tycoon Vincent Tan announced a deal to buy Friendster, a social networking site that still retains a strong following in Southeast Asia after losing in global popularity to Facebook and MySpace. Tan's online payment systems business will buy 100 percent of Friendster through an affiliate company, according to a joint statement Thursday.
The state's raid on bottle deposit funds is driving many community recycling depots out of business, including ones in Vallejo. State lawmakers have left the fund for unredeemed deposits on drink containers nearly bankrupt. That means there's less money to subsidize
A group of about 15 murder and robbery suspects fleeing police abducted teachers and students on their way to school in the Sitio Maitom subdivision today, Nestor Fajura , Caraga region police operations chief, said in a phone interview.
MADRID (AP) – Can a Barcelona truck driver be expected to speak like a Buenos Aires banker? Can rules be imposed on a language spoken by 400 million people stretching from Madrid to Manila? The academic overseers of the language of Cervantes have taken an ambitious stab at it, unveiling their first Spanish grammar guidelines in nearly 80 years.
A consortium including Google and KDDI Corp has signed a deal on Thursday to build and operate an international undersea cable system, estimated to cost $400 million.
Apple to make iTunes more Web-friendly, while Facebook menaces your privacy.
The City Discovery Gift Certificate eliminates the guesswork in gift-giving, making it the perfect gift for the holidays and all year round. Loved ones can dare to do something different by selecting from a wide range of travel experiences on City Discovery.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Suspected bandits trying to evade
Gunmen in the Philippines took dozens hostage from a school in Mindanao, but soon released the children. Hostages may be from a rival family that allegedly targeted gunmen's relatives.
COMO, WESTERN AUSTRALIA--(Marketwire - Dec. 10, 2009) - Editors Note: Two maps are included with this press release. Medusa Mining Limited (TSX:MLL)(ASX:MML)(AIM:MML) ("Medusa" or the "Company"), through its Philippines operating company Philsaga Mining Corporation ("Philsaga"), announces an update of drilling results for holes MD 165 to MD 216 from the Co-O Mine subsequent to the announcement ...
Laos and Singapore qualified for the football semi-finals at the Southeast Asian Games Thursday as Singapore scooped five golds in the pool to take them clear at the top of the medals table.
Promoter Bob Arum feels something strange is about to happen in the negotiations to finally formalize the March 13, 2010 super showdown between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. “I think Richard (Schaefer) has an agenda,” Arum told Manila Bulletin and Fightnews early yesterday afternoon (late Wednesday night in the US), referring to the Golden Boy Promotions (GBP) Chief Executive Officer ...
National TV in parentheses Dec. 11 At Johannesburg, Isaac Hlatshwayo vs. Jan Zaveck, 12, for Hlatshwayo's IBF welterweight title. At Montreal, Jean Pascal vs. Adrian Diaconu, 12, for Pascal's WBC light heavyweight title. At Memorial Auditorium, Sacramento, Calif., Oleg Maskaev vs. Nagy Aguilera, 10, heavyweights. Dec. 12 At Bern, Switzerland, Vitali Klitschko vs. Kevin Johnson, 12, for Klitschko ...
Academic overseers of the Spanish language have unveiled their first grammar guidelines in more than 70 years.
