The man heralded as the world’s best pound-for-pound boxer today didn’t look too invincible against Jose Pedraza of Puerto Rico in a WBA/WBO lightweight unification showdown at the Madison Square Garden in New York City last Saturday night (Sunday morning, Manila).

Before he shot to fame with his own version of The Way We Were, Kapalaran, Macho Gwapito and others, organizers of the Aliw Awards already saw a gem of a performer in the late Rico J. Puno. They named him Most Promising Entertainer of the Year in 1997.

The United States said yesterday it will need to see "something concrete" from China in the next 90 days to build a real agreement on trade, two days after Donald Trump and Xi Jinping called a truce in the escalating confrontation between the two powerhouses.

The US and China reached a 90-day ceasefire in a trade dispute that has rattled financial markets and threatened world economic growth. The breakthrough came after a dinner meeting Saturday between President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the Group of 20 summit in Buenos Aires.

US President Donald Trump and China's Xi Jinping agreed Saturday to suspend any new tariffs in the escalating trade war between the world's two largest economies, even if huge existing duties will remain in place.