Filipino boxing star Manny Pacquiao, who will fight Floyd Mayweather Jr. May 2, has matured a lot and is less careless, since his six-round knockout loss to Mexican Juan Manuel Marquez in 2012. "He became more cautious and has matured a lot as a fighter,” said Restituto “Buboy” Fernandez, assistant trainer for Pacquiao, reports Inquirer.net. Fernandez said Pacquiao was winning the fight and about to finish off Marquez when he became hasty.
Mars One candidates Minerva Rañeses (left) and Jaymee del Rosario (Source: twitter.com (left) and mars-one.com)
Two Filipinos, Minerva Rañeses, 25, and Jaymee del Rosario, 27, were among the remaining 100 hopefuls shortlisted to set foot on Mars as part of a project of a Netherlands-based nonprofit organization called “Mars One,” reports Inquirer.net. Mars One intends to send humans on a one-way trip to Mars to colonize the planet
Three Filipino nurses working in different hospitals in Saudi Arabia have tested positive for the dreaded Middle East respiratory syndrome-coronavirus (MERS-CoV), prompting Philippine officials to renew calls for Filipino workers to strictly follow health protocols, reports Inquirer.net.
The rapid rise in food prices and the lingering effects of Typhoon Yolanda eroded gains from last year's economic growth to push more Filipinos into poverty, reports Interaksyonc.om. The Philippine Statistics Authority’s (PSA) Annual Poverty Indicators Survey (APIS) showed poverty incidence among Filipino individuals rose by 1.2 percentage points to 25.8 percent in the first semester of 2014 from the 24.6 percent in the first half of the previous year. Among Filipino families, poverty incidence increased by 1.1 percentage points to 20 percent from 18.8 percent over the same period.
Sen. Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, Jr. (Source: rappler.com)
When Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. said he earned a “diploma in political science” from Oxford University, brushing off a report that he did not complete a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE), he got two things wrong, reports Rappler.com. The diploma he got was a “special diploma in social studies,” not political science. Second, he equates a diploma with a degree. “I got a diploma!” he told reporters. “What do you get when you graduate? A diploma.” But In the UK educational system, a diploma is not equivalent to a degree. The University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education is explicit: “An Undergraduate Diploma is the same as the second year of an undergraduate degree.” It was given to students who didn’t get good enough grades to go on for a full degree. In other words, pasang-awa or a consolation diploma.
Filipino-American Bobby Murphy, 26, is the second youngest billionaire in the world in 2015, according to a report by Forbes. Murphy, cofounder of mobile application Snapchat, has a net worth of $1.5 billion. His cofounder, Snapchat’s 24 year-old chief executive officer Evan Spiegel, is named the world’s youngest billionaire.
Manny Pacquiao has always believed he can do what 47 other fighters before him have failed to do — beat Floyd Mayweather Jr. in the ring. Turns out a lot of other people are believers, too. And they’re backing their opinions with real money. reports Inquirer.net. Pacquiao has already narrowed the odds for the big fight in Las Vegas' legal sports books. By the time they get into the ring May 2, it’s conceivable that Mayweather might not be favored at all.
Philippine economic growth accelerated last quarter as government spending and manufacturing output rose, capping the best three years of expansion since the mid-1950s. Stocks rose to a record, reports Bloomberg.com. Gross domestic product increased 6.9 percent in the three months through December from a year earlier.
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