The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) is on the lookout for a new and more potent variety of marijuana, which authorities think may have found its way into the country.

The agency is yet to confirm whether or not sensemilia, the seedless variety, is already in the market although they have been receiving reports about it.

PDEA Drug Museum curator Gerry Magpoc said the new variety is more dangerous because it is “seven times more potent” than the so-called “buntot pusa” variety.

He explained that sensemilia carries a higher tetrahydrocannabinol content, one of the active ingredients of marijuana leaves that come from the cannabis sativa plant.  Read more... (166 words, estimated 40 secs reading time)

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MANILA, Philippines – British boxing champion Ricky “the Hitman” Hatton had expressed mixed emotions over negotiations of his fight with Manny “the Pacman” Pacquiao, according to www.telegraph.co.uk.

In a press conference held at Manchester, England, Ricky said that he was delighted at the prospect of fighting Manny.

“…Previously we had spoken to Bob Arum [Pacquiao's promoter] and we’d agreed on the deal. I was delighted. I was jumping through hoops,” related Ricky.

However, after Ricky’s camp discussed the terms with Bob Arum, the deal went from on to off, and then on again. He only wanted a clear fight deal, yet, at the rate negotiations were going, it seemed to be elusive. Ricky’s mood changed—from delighted to devastated.  Read more... (151 words, estimated 36 secs reading time)

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OSLO, Norway – Filipino workers in the Nordic countries are spared from the effects of the global economic crisis, the Philippine Embassy in Norway said on Thursday.

“We have not received reports of Filipino workers from Norway, Denmark and Iceland being retrenched and sent back to the Philippines due to the global economic crisis,” Consul General Evelyn Austria-Garcia said.

“This is not very much a problem in Norway as the country is one of those with a strong financial base,” she explained, adding that “under the Norway’s labor laws, workers who are retrenched have the right to apply for unemployment pay equivalent to the salary they are receiving as long as they do not find another job.”  Read more... (183 words, estimated 44 secs reading time)

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VICTORVILLE, Calif. – Prosecutors say a spurned lover ambushed his ex-girlfriend and tried to cut out the breast implants he paid for by stabbing her. San Bernardino County prosecutor David Foy says 28-year-old Thomas Lee Rowley attacked his ex in July 2006 outside her mother’s home in Hesperia, some 70 miles northeast of Los Angeles in the Mojave Desert.

Rowley is on trial in Superior Court in Victorville for attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, stalking, burglary, and false imprisonment.

The 26-year-old woman survived six stab wounds and the punctured breast implants were repaired.

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MANILA, Philippines — Government agents seized some 4,000 liters of crude oil believed smuggled from Malaysia after intercepting a motor launch off Palawan, a radio report said Saturday.

Radio dzBB reported that the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) arrested the eight crewmembers, one of them a 14-year-old boy, after finding the oil.

Sketchy initial reports showed an NBI team, acting on a tip, intercepted the ML Odyssey skippered by one Juanito Araco off Palawan.

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Holy Land Pilgrimage Episode #46: The Last Supper. Bo shares a special message on living a life of service.

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Floyd Mayweather Sr. is “pretty sure” he’d be back as Ricky Hatton’s trainer when the pride of Manchester stakes his IBO super-lightweight crown against Manny Pacquiao on May 2.

And if he does, the flamboyant trainer and father of Floyd “Pretty Boy” Mayweather Jr. might just impose the same rules on Hatton: no booze, no junk food, no parties, no late nights.

If Floyd Sr. could have his way, Hatton should have “nothing but boxing” in his mind when he starts preparing for the big fight in Las Vegas.  Read more... (231 words, estimated 55 secs reading time)

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I received this video clip in an email on 26/01/2009. The CCTV footage appears to have captured a strange woman. Watch closely when the two guys are in the lift. (1:20 to 1:40)

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SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea says it is rescinding past military and political agreements with South Korea over Seoul’s hard-line stance toward Pyongyang.

The North’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland is accusing South Korea of pushing the two Koreas to the brink of war.

The committee said in a statement carried Friday by state-run media that it considers all inter-Korean agreements “dead” and says it will not honor their disputed western sea border.

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MANILA, Philippines — The ambassadors of the United States and the European Union, and the Australian embassy’s deputy head of mission, called on Thursday for the resumption of peace talks in Mindanao, saying that there could not be any development for the Philippines unless the southern island does so, too.

“Until frankly Mindanao recognizes and realizes its great potential, the entire Philippines cannot realize its potential,” US Ambassador Kristie Kenney told the Second National Summit of the Ulama (Islamic scholars) in the Philippines.  Read more... (178 words, estimated 43 secs reading time)

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