Tabal joins first race since Rio Olympics

PR 11/14/2016

CEBUANA Olympian Mary Joy Tabal of the Motor Ace Kawasaki Racing team gauged her capacity in a high-level race once more as she competed in the Great Eastern Half Marathon yesterday in Singapore. Tabal finished seventh, clocking…

Hidilyn Diaz in Cebu today

Glendale G. Rosal 09/01/2016

THE country’s lone medalist in the recently concluded Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Hidilyn Diaz, will be in Cebu today to spearhead a sports seminar on Sunday. Diaz, silver medalist in women’s weightlifting in the…

ANXIOUS MOMENTS

PR 07/28/2016

Mary Joy Tabal has four days left before she will be leaving for the biggest race of her life — the Rio Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She has spent the last month in Japan to…

GIVING HER ALL

Glendale G. Rosal 07/14/2016

With less than a month left from the biggest race of her sterling career, Cebuana marathoner Mary Joy Tabal is giving her all in the remaining stretch of her training in Japan to make sure that she’ll…

‘Juma’ the jaguar killed in Olympic torch event

06/23/2016

A jaguar named Juma trotted out for the Olympic torch’s passage through Brazil’s Amazon was killed shortly afterward when it escaped its handlers and threatened a vet, the Brazilian military said on Tuesday. The feline — whose…

Plastic water bottles

Philip S. Chua 04/25/2016

ABOUT 50 billion plastic bottles of filtered water are consumed around the world each year. This does not include the billions of other plastic materials littering the globe, choking our environment in more ways than one. In…

Brazil seeks neighbors’ help

01/29/2016

Rio de Janeiro – Brazil urged its neighbors to unite in fighting the Zika virus, blamed for a surge in brain-damaged babies, as airlines offered refunds to pregnant mothers afraid to travel to the region. As alarm…

Genetically modified mosquitoes combat Zika virus in Brazil

01/21/2016

SAO PAULO — Genetically modified mosquitoes could help Brazil combat the Zika virus, tests results released Tuesday by a British biotech firm suggest. The South American nation has been scrambling to contain the spread of Zika, which…

Cebuano doctor accepted as volunteer athletic doctor for Rio Olympics

Jonas N. Panerio 01/14/2016

RENOWNED Cebuano doctor Rhoel James Timothy Dejano is headed to the biggest athletic spectacle of all as he was accepted as volunteer athletic medical doctor for South America’s first ever Olympic Games later this year in Rio…

Retired Cebuana professor killed in motorcycle accident in Brazil

Juli Ann M. Sibi 12/20/2015

A retired Cebuana professor known for her advocacy in gender rights died in a motorcycle accident while on vacation in Brazil last Wednesday. Portia Doroy Dacalos was riding  a motorcycle driven by Oliver Mann, the 43-year-old son…

Slaughter excited seeing great talent in one team

Jonas N. Panerio 11/12/2015

It was a scene born out of a superhero movie, as the country’s best basketball players came together under one roof to start what they hope will be a journey that lands them in Rio de Janeiro,…

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