Sports: Mayweather cements legacy with Pacquiao win
Floyd Mayweather Jr cemented his place among the pantheon of boxing greats by improving to 48-0 with a unanimous decision over Manny Pacquiao on Saturday in a fight that lived up to its immense hype...
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Sports: Mayweather, Pacquiao fight sets pay-per-view records
(From Reuters) The “Fight of the Century” between boxing greats Floyd Mayweather Jr and Manny Pacquiao generated record pay-per-view revenue in the United States of US$400 million (S$530 million) from...
View ArticleBeijing’s South China Sea expansion: The salami slices back!
By Peter Lee The South China Sea escalation mechanism received another crank last week. In response to the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) crash island-building program in the South China Sea...
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Philippine president on South China Sea: Without stability, there is no...
(From Nikkei Asian Review) By Mariko Tai China’s reclamation activity in the face of international opposition is “alarming,” Philippine President Benigno Aquino told the Nikkei Asian Review on...
View ArticleText of Japan-Philippines Joint Declaration on strategic partnership
(As provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan) Japan-Philippines Joint Declaration; A Strengthened Strategic Partnership for Advancing the Shared Principles and Goals of Peace, Security, and...
View ArticleChina about to finish some land reclamation in South China Sea
(From Reuters) China is about to complete some of its land reclamation work on the Spratly Islands in the disputed South China Sea, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday, shedding light on a...
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Fashion: Style AND comfort
Top Filipina fashion blogger Vern Enciso writes: “The heat over the summer we just had was just unbearable and I’m sure anyone will agree with me. It was the season to be comfortable that even wearing...
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China’s chain reaction share chastening
Asian emerging stock markets, already weakening at mid-year with their own difficulties, shed another 1% in the immediate wake of China’s carnage as foreign investors rethought their 2015 favored...
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Fashion: Exploring paradise with Yosi Samra
(From vernverniece.com) Filipina fashion bloggers Vern Enciso and Verniece Enciso write: “It took us a million years and a thousand attempts to combine the thousands of photos we took because it was so...
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Okinotorishima-ization: South China Sea arbitration case enters middle game
Two disputed geographic features in the South China Sea that are the focus of island-building by the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Fiery Cross and South Johnson Reef, were both originally endowed...
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China says it has every right to drill in East China Sea
China said Friday it had every right to drill in the East China Sea close to waters disputed with Japan, adding that it did not recognize a “unilateral” Japanese median line setting out a boundary...
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Southeast Asian nations back halt to land reclamation in South China Sea
(From Reuters) Southeast Asian countries on Tuesday backed a U.S. call to halt land reclamation in the South China Sea, underlining unease in the region over Beijing’s continued expansion on disputed...
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Fashion: Which red outfit are you?
(From Vernverniece.com) Fashion blogger Verniece Enciso writes: “Dressing up is a self expression and even with the same colour, you can tell which personality is which and it will show. Red is a very...
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Unidentified Caucasian killed in botched Philippine raid: Report
(From Philippine Daily Inquirer) “Buddy, what happened to him again?” The camera focused on the body of a man who looked like a Caucasian, his shaven head tilted to the right, right eye and mouth...
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Aquino: No Caucasians killed in Philippines commando raid
(From the Philippine Daily Inquirer) They only look Caucasian President Benigno Aquino III on Thursday dismissed as kuwentong kutsero, or hearsay, the report that two Caucasians were killed in a clash...
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Fashion: 6 beauty hacks for you to try
(From vernverniece.com) Philippines fashion blogger Vern Enciso writes: “We’re finally writing a few of our beauty hacks and trust me, they’re very simple to follow Its very easy to neglect beauty...
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Game On! For Abe in Asia
On October 6, 2015, the Wall Street Journal carried this headline: Japan Ready to Lead in Asia-Pacific, Abe Says I expect that a few Japan-loving pivot-poobahs inside the Washington beltway had to spit...
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A dangerous game in the South China Sea: Is Japan ready to set sail?
(From the National Interest) By Benjamin Schreer Following the freedom of navigation patrols operation (FONOP) in the South China Sea (SCS) by the guided-missile destroyer USS Lassen, a key question is...
View ArticleBloomberg: Hey China! Just follow India’s example
Bloomberg: Hey China! Just follow India’s example It’s not a surprise that the big news on the economic front is that China is going through an economic slowdown because it’s moving away from an...
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China’s great South China Sea challenge: What next and how to respond
(From the National Interest) By Malcolm Davis China’s land reclamation in the South China Sea has generated concern across Asia about China’s challenge to U.S. strategic primacy in the Western Pacific....
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