MANILA — Boxing great Manny Pacquiao spent decades throwing punches in the boxing ring. From Tuesday, the Filipino sports icon will direct his fight at a more enduring opponent: poverty. Pacquiao joined President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s cabinet on Tuesday as head of the government’s anti-poverty agency, vowing to help Filipinos facing hardships all too familiar to him. […]
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