Manny Pacquiao won his last fight just recently against Brandon BamBam Rios, and he dedicated this fight for the victims of typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan. As he came back here in the Philippines, he immediately do something about helping the typhoon victims. To his dismay, the BIR has frozen all his bank accounts. He ask his friends for monetary help just to make his promise on helping the Yolanda victims. Manny Pacquiao and his wife, Vice Gov. Jinkee, have appealed the tax fraud case filed by the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) against them for alleged tax deficiencies in 2008 and 2009 amounting to P2.2 billion. Last Thursday, November 21, through his lawyers, Pacquiao filed a petition against BIR commissioner Kim Henares before the Court of Tax Appeals in Quezon City. In the petition, Pacquiao said he wants to stop the BIR from collecting the P2.2 billion in supposed tax deficiencies. Pacquiao called on the Court of Tax Appeals to declare the BIR’s formal letter or demand

Across the Philippines, typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda affected a total of 9.5 million people -- and displaced at least 600,000 -- when it slammed into the country on Friday, November 8 according to the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Though there were, as of this writing, more than 2,300 dead, there were survivors who were described as being in desperate need of clean drinking water and food. You can’t even imagine the pain and agony, unless you witness it firsthand. According to Secretary to the Cabinet Rene Almendras, "In some cases the devastation has been total."   Yolanda, the greatest, even the strongest typhoon in the world this year is estimated to have destroyed about 70 to 80 percent of structures in its path as it tore into the coastal provinces of Leyte, Samar, Cebu and Antique. Officials say that 10,000 may have died after the devastating typhoon that hit the Philippines. As survivors assess the damage, Joseph Curry, with