By Mel Donis

Filipino boxing champion and humanitarian Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao will be fighting African welterweight Joshua Clottey on March, 13, 2010 at the brand new Dallas Cowboy’s Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

Bob Arum, Pacquiao’s promoter said even former US President George W. Bush was going to attend unless he has some other engagement come up that day.

The fight fell through because Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao couldn’t come to a compromise on the blood testing for steroids and other performance enhancing drugs. (more…)

Posted October 5th, 2009 by Bayanihantayo.com

American Idol runner-up David Archuleta, whose upcoming holiday album titled “Christmas From the Heart” due out October 13, is  reported to be  top of the Amazon holiday charts. Fans can pre order the album before it drops on Amazon.com. (more…)

Filipino American boxer Nonito Donaire has chipped in P1 – million to help the victims of typhoon “Ondoy”“Maraming tao ang nawalan ng bahay, they can’t go back and they have to rebuild,” Donaire said in an interview with GMA News. (more…)

By Martin Abbugao (AFP)

MANILA — Typhoon Parma pummeled the northern Philippines on Saturday, toppling trees and cutting off power and telephone lines, as its rains threatened to bring more misery to millions of flood survivors in Manila.

Residents said extremely strong winds and rains began lashing the northern province of Cagayan after midday (0400 GMT), hours before the typhoon was expected to make landfall there in the evening.

“The wind is very, very angry,” Cagayan region police chief Director Roberto Damian said in a radio interview from his headquarters, about 400 kilometres (250 miles) from the Philippine capital.

“I can see trees are being toppled inside our camp… One sturdy Narra tree was uprooted and smashed a car and a house. We cannot go out,” he said in a radio interview before his line went dead.

There were reports that power and telephone lines were being cut off because of the storm, said Lieutenant Colonel Ernesto Torres, spokesman of the National Disaster Coordinating Council.

Cagayan is a mainly rural area with coastal towns and a population of just over one million people.

DZBB radio said heavy rains also pelted two towns in Zambales province north of Manila, and cars had to turn their headlights on because of poor visibility. (more…)