Philippine boxer dies after fight injury

MANILA - An undefeated Philippine boxer has died after sustaining head injuries during a fight and falling into a coma, a hospital official said Saturday.

Flyweight Karlo Maquinto, 21, died in hospital on Friday, Dr. Chester Tan, a surgeon at Manila's Far Eastern University Hospital told AFP.

The right-hander, fighting only his ninth bout as a professional boxer, was taken to hospital last Saturday after rallying from two early knockdowns to salvage a majority draw against fellow Filipino Mark Joseph Costa.

Blogging can help stressed teens

When Lydia (not her real name) started attending a top girls' school six years ago, she experienced loneliness and insecurity.

She felt out of place in school and was weighed down by family problems.

For four years, she cut and even burned herself.


Lydia started a blog because of her struggle with self-injury and depression (which she was diagnosed with after her church pastor asked her to see a psychiatrist) and found it helped her to vent her frustrations.


A new study on anxious or stressed teenage students in Israel said that there is therapeutic value when young people blog about their social-emotional woes.


As reported in The New York Times, research by University of Haifa psychology Professors Meyran Boniel-Nissim and Azy Barak shows that improvements in mood was greatest among bloggers who opened their posts to comments as compared to those who did not allow comments or who kept a traditional diary.

Husband rams wife's car over 20 times with lorry

SUNGAI BULOH - A fight between a husband and wife turned ugly when the former decided to vent his anger by ramming onto his spouse's black Perodua Myvi more than 20 times using his lorry at Taman Suria in Desa Aman here two nights ago.

The badly battered car was left with serious damage to the front, broken windows, punctured tyre and a leaking engine in the 11.30pm incident.

Luckily the wife was no where near the vehicle during the incident. A front gate and a water pipe belonging to a neighbour was also damaged in the drama which occurred close to midnight.

Residents claimed the man was behaving like a mad man and repeatedly rammed his wife's vehicle even when they told him to stop.