By RotoWire.com Staff | Rotowire.com – Tue, Sep 11, 2012Recommendation: Harris appeared in 22 games for Miami last season (one start) and averaged 3.6 points, 2.3 rebounds, and 1.2 assists in 14.5 minutes. The Heat have decided to bring the 25-year-old guard back for another season, though he'll likely continue to play a small bench role for the defending champs.
LONDON (Reuters) - China's Huawei unveiled its flagship smartphone, the Ascend P6, at its first standalone launch event on Tuesday, underlining its ambitions to compete with Apple and Samsung in the top tier of mobile technology. The company says the device, at 6.18 mm thick, is the world's slimmest. It has a 5 megapixel front-facing camera, designed for taking "selfies", or pictures of the owner to be shared on social media networks. The company picked the launch date - 6/18 (June 18) - to tie …
A Chinese supercomputer is the fastest in the world, according to survey results announced Monday, comfortably overtaking a US machine which now ranks second. …
Manila, Philippines --- The Philippines received plaudits during the third annual conference on the South China Sea hosted recently by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC, for bringing its territorial dispute with China over the West Philippine Sea to a United Nations-backed tribunal. …
Manila, Philippines --- Who's afraid of their wives? …
“Emong” has further strengthened into a tropical storm on Tuesday noon, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) reported. …
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A magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck Quezon province at around 7 p.m. Wednesday, with shocks felt in many cities in Metro Manila. …
The Philippine National Police (PNP) hopes to procure more than 2,500 police vehicles in a bid to increase police visibility and improve their movement nationwide. …
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has completed re-provisioning and rotation of troops in the disputed Spratly group of islands without interference from China. …
Tropical Storm “Emong” may be on its way out of the country but experts say the weather won’t be improving until next week. …
Makati City is set to fully implement a ban on plastics and other non-biodegradable packaging materials, prompting business groups to warn about similar measures’ impact on jobs. …
Amid heavy downpour caused by a tropical storm's impact on the southwest monsoon, the weather bureau's top official official quit his post. …
While other Pinoys in the metro complain about floods, a group reportedly intentionally blocks waterways to cause floods in some areas, officials said. …
“Disasters disproportionally affect the poor, vulnerable, and marginalized,” the World Bank said, as it urged countries to focus more on addressing risks of natural hazards. …
Killing poverty may be among the government's top agenda but most public funds actually went to prisoners than on poor families last year, data show. …
Pinoys are the world’s top gin drinkers and the third rum consumers, a report from The Economist said, citing data from International Wine and Spirit Research. …
KIEV (Reuters) - A parliamentary hearing on Ukraine's budget was suspended for several hours on Tuesday after opposition deputies alleged that a deputy finance minister presenting the budget report was drunk. Anatoly Myarkovsky, first deputy finance minister, spoke for 10 minutes on the government's budget performance in 2012. But when questions were invited, deputies from Ukraine's rowdy opposition called out "He's drunk". One shouted: "Anyone within five meters can tell he reeks like someone …
By Luc Cohen MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Fed up with politicians they call "rats," a group of friends in the eastern Mexican city of Xalapa have put forward their ideal candidate for mayor: a cat named Morris. Xalapa resident Sergio Chamorro, who adopted the cat in August, said the plan began as a joke between friends borne out of their frustration with the Veracruz state government over freedom of speech. "Fed up of voting for rats? Vote for a cat," reads one campaign poster featuring the black …
By Belinda Goldsmith LONDON (Reuters) - From Union Jack booties to "Born to Rule" sleepwear, the British royal family has joined retailers in offering baby products to mark the arrival of the royal heir. Analysts estimate the baby fever could boost the economy by 240 million pounds ($380 million). A baby sleepsuit modeled on a guardsman's outfit is one of the gifts on sale at palace shops by the Royal Collection Trust, which uses all profits for the upkeep of the royal palaces. ... …
By Brendan O'Brien MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Standing on a foot ladder, Jeff Scanell bent down, pinched his girlfriend's red lace brassiere between his thumb and index finger and gently lifted it out of the front of her shirt as a cowbell wildly rang and a raucous crowd roared. The 37-year-old Milwaukee tool and die worker then reached above and added the undergarment to the dangling array of colorful bras of various shapes and sizes that hung from the scarlet tin ceiling. ... …
By Myles Miller WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) - U.S. officials on Thursday unveiled the 400-page diary of Alfred Rosenberg, a top aide to Adolf Hitler, who oversaw the genocide against Jews and others during World War Two. The diary disappeared after the Nuremberg trials in 1946, sparking a nearly 70-year hunt that ended on April 5 in the upstate New York town of Lewiston, at the home of an academic named Herbert Richardson. ... …
By Pablo A. Tariman, VERA Files Everyone in the theater circuit agree that the Philstage Gawad Buhay life achievement award in theater for Felix “Nonon” Padilla was well-deserved. Padilla started in Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) in the company of … Continue reading → …
By Elizabeth Lolarga, VERA Files Photos from the book The Odyssey of an Igorot Mission Girl For a woman who formally entered school at age 10, Esperanza Daliwa Somebang of Nadatngan, Mountain Province, travelled far and wide, a great believer … Continue reading → …
By Pablo A. Tariman, VERA Files Friday night last week, it seemed everyone who owns a TV set was glued on the final airing of the Channel 2 teleserye, “Ina, Kapatid, Anak” directed by Don M. Cuaresma and Jojo A. … Continue reading → …
By Mikha Flores, VERA Files The Supreme Court launched on Friday an electronic filing system that will digitize judicial processes in trial courts in Quezon City. Dubbed as “eCourt”, the system uses case management software that will allow judges and … Continue reading → …
By Patrick King Pascual, VERA Files Festive street parties, parades and marches usually mark the annual celebration of Pride month in June by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community in the country and elsewhere. “But Pride Month is … Continue reading → …