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Friday, March 12, 2010

Pakistan Tested Missles and Torpedoes To Streghten Powers

 Pakistan's navy successfully test-fired a series of missiles and torpedoes Friday in what it called a message to "nefarious" forces — an apparent reference to longtime rival India. While the two nuclear-armed neighbors have taken slow steps toward restarting peace talks, they also have a history of using weapons tests as a form of diplomatic saber-rattling. The tests occurred in the Arabian Sea and employed various aircraft, submarines and ships. It was not immediately clear if the...

Online Support Not a Factor on Philippine Election

 “At the Ateneo de Davao University for the Presidential Candidates Forum today,” read the status update on the Facebook fan page linked to the website of presidential candidate Gilbert Teodoro on Tuesday afternoon. The message received 107 comments. Some asked questions about the forum, while others wrote messages of support for the administration’s presidential bet. One user asked the candidate to take action with regards to the “Morong 43.” It is no surprise in a country that last...

Star Power on Philippine Politics

 The Kris and Noynoy show is off and running as the presidential race tightened two months before the May elections. With her husband and son in tow, Kris Aquino-Yap joined the presidential campaign on Wednesday of her brother, Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III, and voiced confidence she would get into the bandwagon her influential uncle, Eduardo “Danding” Cojuangco. Boosted by basketball superstar James Yap and son Baby James, some 80,000 people crammed the Joaquin Enriquez Sports...

Two Pinoy Joins Forbes Top Billionaire

 The families of mall magnate Henry Sy ranked 201st and tobacco king Lucio Tan 582nd on a list of the world’s billionaires, which was topped by a frugal Mexican who prefers to use paper notebooks rather than the computers he sells. Mexico’s telco tycoon Carlos Slim, the world’s richest man, jumped past Americans Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to become the first person from a developing nation to top the list, according to Forbes magazine. The list has long been dominated by Americans...

Top Athletes Screwing Money Up

 Almost 80 percent of National Football League players are flirting with bankruptcy two years after they retire, according to Sports Illustrated. NBA players aren’t faring much better. 60 percent of former National Basketball Association players end up broke within five years of retirement. Athletes squander millions of dollars due to bad decisions, lavish spending and poor financial planning. Here is a list of athletes that have lost their fortunes through some of the biggest financial...

Norway's Seed Vault Now .5 Million

  Two years after receiving its first deposits, a "doomsday" seed vault on an Arctic island has amassed half a million seed samples, making it the world's most diverse repository of crop seeds, the vault's operators announced Thursday.Cary Fowler — who heads the trust that oversees the seed collection, which is 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) from the North Pole, said the facility now houses at least one-third of the world's crop seeds."In my lifetime, I don't think we'll go over 1.5 million....

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