So, para naman hindi mabitin kayong aming mambabasa, including our Dr. Dante Ang, The Times’ Chairman Emeritus, who asked me to do the SEA Games series by way of paying tribute to our heroes and heroines, to wait muna till Manny shall have won the fight when I will be resuming the SEA Games series. o0oIn 1975, Thailand hosted anew the VIII Southeast Asian Peninsular Games. It was the third time that country held the what is now known as the Southeast Asian Games. In view of this, plus the prohibitive cost of staging the Games, Malaysia initiated a move to invite other countries within the Southeast Asian hemisphere to join the Games. Thus, the once every-two-year congregation was re-Christened the Southeast Asian Games.

Source: Manila Times June 15, 2019 16:30 UTC