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January 20, 2021 | 5:54 pm Font Size AAA WHILE qualifying for the rescheduled Olympic Games is foremost for the national karate team as it begins its training “bubble,” it also has its sights on the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games later this year. Speaking at Tuesday’s online Philippine Sportswriters Association Forum, Karate Pilipinas Sports Federation, Inc. President Richard Lim shared that apart from the Olympics, they also have their eyes on the SEA Games in November in ...

Published January 19, 2021, 3:00 PM Philippines’ Jamie Christine Lim (red) wins against Indonesia’s Zefanya Ceyco in +61kg Kumite at World Trade Center, December 9, 2019. (MB File Photo) The Karate Pilipinas Sports Federation plans to send its athletes to a training camp in Istanbul, Turkey in preparation for the world qualification tournament to the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. Karate president Richard Lim said select athletes will be up for extensive training from March to May, where they will jo...

Communities in Laguna were the latest areas visited by Vice President Leni Robredo as her office continues to extend assistance to those reeling from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

Search You Are Here:Home → 2021 → January → 19 → 6 farmers arrested for harvesting own crops, hundreds others evicted due to land grabbing 6 farmers arrested for harvesting own crops, hundreds others evicted due to land grabbing Demolition in Norzagaray, Bulacan (Photo courtesy of KMP) “The situation of Filipino peasants when they marched from Central Luzon to Mendiola in 1987 remains unchanged, and even worse this 2021, especially with the rising cases of peasant mass...

CALAMBA CITY, Jan. 19 (PIA) - Doctors and allied health professionals will play an important role in increasing the Filipino people’s confidence for the national vaccination plan when it rolls out this year.  National COVID-19 Action Plan chief implementer and vaccine czar Carlito Galvez, Jr. underscored the role of the medical community in inoculating around 70 million Filipinos.  During the recent Town Hall on the COVID-19 vaccination plan led by the Department of Health and the Philippin...

Published January 18, 2021, 3:42 PM Photo from Inspire Sports Academy National athletes holed up in “Calambubble” are set to maximize their 90-day training camp with “no limitations” as far as all-around support is concerned. Lee Tajonera, marketing director of the Inspire Sports Academy, told  Manila Bulletin that it is high time for national athletes to receive such training experience, especially amid the coronavirus pandemic. “There are no limitations,” Tajonera said in an e-m...

Published January 18, 2021, 7:35 PM Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) National Training Director Marc Velasco and Karate Pilipinas Inc. President Richard Lim share the spotlight in Tuesday’s session of the Philippine Sportswriters Association (PSA) webcast Forum. Velasco will give his inputs about the bubble training being done by three National Sports Associations (NSAs) inside the Inspire Sports Academy in Calamba, Laguna in preparation for their respective Olympic qualifying tournaments. ...

January 17, 2021 ALSO known as the North-South Commuter Railway Extension Project (NSCR-Ex), this ambitious 146-kilometer railway system project of the Department of Transportation (DoTr) involves cities and municipalities of Manila, Bulacan, Pampanga and the National Capital Region and Region 4-A. Undoubtedly, it is one of President Duterte’s grand projects under his Build, Build, Build program. It promises to provide massive relief to commuters through its three interconnected ...

In this file photo, Philippines' Eumir Felix Marcial (left) defeats Malaysia's Che Azmi Mohd Aswan in boxing's middleweight semifinals at PICC Forum in Pasay last December. (MB File Photo) Philippine Sports Commission chairman Butch Ramirez said the foreign training of elite national athletes is

As athletes from boxing, karate and taekwondo enter the Inspire Sports Academy for bubble training in preparation for different Tokyo Olympics qualifiers, national training director Marc Velasco said that they are ready for any eventuality when it comes to COVID-19 emergency.