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Eala, Rivera hold off Hong Kong rivals, enter women's doubles 2nd round

MANILA, Philippines -- Philippine bets Alex Eala and Shaira Rivera held off their Hong Kong rivals Lai Ching Laam and Liu Kallista, 6-1, 6-3, at the Higashiyama Park Tennis Center Indoor Court B in Japan Tuesday evening to enter the 20th Asian Games tennis women's doubles second round. Unable to close out Lai and Liu in the eighth game of the second set, Eala and Rivera blanked the Hong Kong players the following game for the first round win. Rivera delivered the clincher at the net as the Philippines finished the match in one hour and 17 minutes. Eala and Rivera face the Chinese duo of Jiang Xinyu and Yang Zhaoxuan in the second round. Jiang and Yang received a first-round bye.

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Sep 29, 2026

Heroic teenagers stop drifting school bus after driver passes out

Four Pennsylvania high school students brought their drifting school bus to a stop after the driver suffered a medical emergency on the ride home.

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Sep 29, 2026

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Asian Games: Alex Eala, Shaira Rivera oust Hong Kong pair to reach doubles Round 2

Sep 29, 2026

Asian Games: Alex Eala, Shaira Rivera oust Hong Kong pair to reach doubles Round 2

Alex Eala and Shaira Rivera flexed their might to pull off a 6-1, 6-3 win over Hong Kong's Lai Ching Laam and Kallista Liu in the women's doubles first round in the 2026 Asian Games on Tuesday in Japan.

Marcoleta camp maintains P75M was 'campaign contribution'

Sep 29, 2026

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Senator Rodante Marcoleta"s defense team maintained that the money he admitted to receiving was part of his campaign contributions, but the prosecution argued that the lawmaker paid a tax that suggested otherwise.

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Sep 29, 2026

Sell family jewels for latest iPhone? In India, craze dials up debate

Tens of thousands of people thronged Apple stores in India this month to snap up the newest iPhone models – the 18 Pro and Pro Max – but the frenzy has kicked off public debate in the country about affordability and consumer debt. The iPhone 18 Pro starts at 164,900 rupees (US$1,700) and goes up to 179,000 rupees, while the iPhone 18 Pro Max starts at 179,900 rupees and maxes out at 329,900 rupees. Apple also unveiled the iPhone Duo, its first-ever folding smartphone, essentially setting a new...

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Sep 29, 2026

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A Vietnamese pro-democracy organisation has alleged that two of its members, who hold Norwegian and Australian citizenship, were abducted in Cambodia and taken to the border with Vietnam, where Hanoi authorities later accused them of illegally entering the country. Vietnam has charged the two men, along with a third alleged member of the organisation, with terrorism and document forgery, saying they were caught crossing the border from Cambodia with forged identity documents. The organisation,...

What trap? US-China relations show conflict is far from inevitable

Sep 29, 2026

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For a decade, foreign policy circles have treated war between the United States and China as something close to destiny. The theory has a fancy, fashionable name borrowed from ancient Greece: the “Thucydides Trap” – the idea that a rising power and an established one are fated to collide, the way two articulated lorries merging into a single lane rarely ends well. The term is widely used in commentaries on US-China relations. Frictions get written off as “inevitable” regardless of what actually...

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Sep 29, 2026

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Unmatched EJ Obiena shatters Asian Games record to defend throne

Sep 29, 2026

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EJ Obiena delivers the Philippines' third gold medal in the 2026 Asian Games as he breaks his own record to repeat as men's pole vault champion

The Migrants Being Shipped Back to a War Zone

Sep 29, 2026

The Migrants Being Shipped Back to a War Zone

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