Manila - where to watch Pacquiao fight

Drugs, gangs, murders, vigilante death squads and warring religious factions combine to provide a scourge to society in the Philippines that never stops.

Except when Manny Pacquiao fights.

Sunday is the Lord’s Day in the Philippines, a predominantly Roman Catholic country of 90 million people.

Yet even the day of worship can not normally slow down the spate of killings, shootings, stabbings and other miscreant turns that often transform the streets of major cities into battlefields.

This Sunday, though – Saturday night in the United States – it all stops. For one day, just one day, the Philippines becomes perhaps the world’s largest crime-free zone.

On May 03 2009 16:28 Rekrul wrote:
change all ur philipino money back to another currency before u go thru immigration if u have more than 500$ worth when u leave if u don't wanna get robbed by cops

On May 03 2009 15:18 omfghi2u2 wrote:
Absolute slaughter.

This was a really interesting article.