Vlade Divac was feeling right at home. All seven-foot-one of him.
“You can say that it’s like a homecoming,” he said without a trace of the heavily accented English he first spoke when he broke in as a prodigious rookie with the Los Angeles Lakers in 1991.

EIGHT rice varieties bred by the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) has been approved for commercial production by the National Seed Industry Council (NSIC).

Philrice said the eight rice varieties included hybrids and varieties suitable for saline areas.

For irrigated lowland, the attached agency of the Department of Agriculture (DA) came up with NSIC Rc216 (Tubigan 17) and NSIC Rc218 SR (Mabango 3).

THE peso hit a three-week high against the US dollar on Tuesday, buoyed by the upbeat sentiment in equities markets that advanced as investors cheered an agreement by the Group of 20 (G-20) finance ministers and central banks to continue implementing economic-stimulus measures to sustain the ongoing global recovery, traders said.