Day: July 31, 2024

MANILA: Boxer Eumir Marcial and swimmer Kayla Sanchez bid their Paris Olympics medal hopes goodbye early Wednesday. Marcial was on the wrong end of one of the biggest upsets so far in the boxing event as the 2021 Tokyo bronze medalist fell prey to Olympic debutant Turabek Khabibullaev of Uzbekistan in the round of 16 at North Paris Arena. The 20-year-old Khabibullaev caught Marcial by surprise in the first two rounds, banking on superb technical boxing to outpoint him six minutes in. Marcial turned things around in Round 3 in the hopes of scoring a much-needed knockout, but despite getting

MANILA: Reliance Broadcasting Unlimited (RBU), the newly-created affiliate company of fiber broadband provider Converge ICT Solutions Inc., was the official partner of the Presidential Communications Office (PCO) for the live feed of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.’s third State of the Nation Address (SONA) last week. In a news release Wednesday, the PCO said the partnership with RBU enabled the Radio Television Malacañang (RTVM) to seamlessly air the President’s SONA last July 22 from the Batasan Pambansa Complex to thousands of homes across the country. Marcos’ third SONA was the pilot broadcast of the company, the PCO said. ‘We take

MANILA: The European Union (EU) has released EUR1.2 million or PHP76 million in humanitarian aid for victims of the floods that hit Mindanao over the past month. In a statement dated July 30, the EU Delegation in Manila said the funding would help address the most pressing needs of people on the island, the hardest hit following several days of heavy rain caused by the southwest monsoon and the intertropical convergence zone. ‘The beginning of this year’s monsoon and typhoon season is proving very hard for people in the Philippines, and the EU is stepping up its assistance to the

MANILA: The Philippines will expand its “maritime cooperative activities” (MCA) with Japan, Australia, and other friendly nations, Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Gilberto C. Teodoro Jr. said on Tuesday. “We will also bolster maritime cooperative activities and expand coordination with Japan and Australia and other like-minded nations, not only in these areas but in joint exercises and training as well, where applicable,” he said during the 2+2 Foreign and Defense Ministerial Meeting in Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City. MCAs are joint naval and air patrols conducted by Philippine allies in its maritime territories. Teodoro said Manila would beef up the

MANILA: Members of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) nabbed two Chinese nationals during an anti-human trafficking operation inside a suspected illegal Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator (POGO) facility in Pampanga province on Tuesday. In a report on Wednesday, CIDG chief Maj. Gen. Leo Francisco said the suspects, with aliases “Tiago” and “Tian Zhu” were arrested during the service of seven search warrants issued by the Guagua, Pampanga Regional Trial Court inside a village at the Clark Freeport Zone in Mabalacat City at about 5:30 a.m. Rescued from the operation were 13 Chinese nationals, including two females and three minors.