The annual Veterans 7-a-side Football Tournament will be held this year at the Nomad Sports Club on 28th February and 1st March, 2009. The Veterans 7-a-side Football Tournament was originally organised to give veterans (those rendered competent through trial and experience) of all nationalities a chance to experience once again their youthful poise and listen to applause rippling around the grounds as they loft a lazy goal past a slightly too rotund goalkeeper.

Today, however, the competition is taken very seriously on the football (' soccer ' to the rest of the World) field and participating veterans train for weeks before the event to maximise their chance of success fo

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Manila 10s International Rugby Festival 2009 will be held at the premier international sports club in the Philippines - Nomad Sports Club, Merville Park, Parañaque City 20th - 22nd March.

2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the Manila 10s International Rugby Festival at the Nomad Sports Club, attracting competitors and spectators from all around the World to celebrate their passion for the sport of rugby or to meet thousands of old friends and make hundreds of new ones, in preparation to meet them as old friends again next year. This year, with travel and tourism incentives that make a difference, as many as 5000 spectators are expected during the three days of co

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Philippine International Cricket Sixes 2009, will be held at the Parade Ground, Clark Field, Angeles City, Pampanga, on 20th - 22nd February.

The Philippine International Cricket Sixes at Clark Field marks the second time this annual celebration of international cricket comes to the Philippines. Teams will arrive from almost all cricket playing nations to Clark Field and Angeles City, to enjoy a weekend of gentlemanly sports. The sound of leather on willow will echo around historic Fort Stotsenburg to much applause, the passion for victory between the wickets will be run

The Philippines Tourism Minister, Joseph “Ace” Durano, was in the U.K. recently, extolling the virtues of birdwatching vacations around the Philippines. There is no doubt that the Philippine islands, and nearby Borneo, offer some of the most exciting and diverse environments where to photograph some of the World's rarest birds.

Anecdotal evidence collected during the past decade suggests that the Philippines in particular is enjoying a resurgence in many bird populations. For example, just last weekend, on Manila Bay, a unusually large flock of 228 birds, identified as black-napped terns, was observed frolicking and fishing about two miles out from the Manila Ya