The Philippines may not have struck gold at the annual Japan Prize, but it fared differently in India.

A number of tenets were reinforced during the recent Japan Prize held under the auspices of NHK broadcasting.

One of the most respected young men in Thailand today is in the business of changing young people’s lives.

A colleague once spoke about the massive deployment of Filipino domestics around the world.

As this comes out, ten young and highly talented kids from the most economically challenged areas of the country are basking in well-deserved limelight in Bangkok as the Young Hearts Youth Arts and Media Festival winds down.

Pinatubo was not too far away, but the explosions came that afternoon from MTRCB board member and highly respected lawyer and child rights advocate Atty. Eric Mallonga.

The Duque family owns and operates the multi-located Lyceum-Northwestern University (LNU) in Pangasinan.

Anak TV’s little contribution to heritage and sports got off to a good rousing start in Marikina
and New Lucena, Iloilo with ace actor Ricky Davao.

Rap is a world so remote to this writer’s that when we were informed that Gloc 9 was to be the guest in Davao’s “Larolympics,” we had to double check who or what it was.

It is becoming commonplace to hear about kids suffering from diabetes, even high blood pressure. Media is a likely culprit. Irresponsible advertising is equally culpable.

The Philippines boasts of 7,100 plus islands and a high literacy rate.

She is young and effervescent, like many of her peers.

Torrential rains notwithstanding, the city of Iloilo went out in force at the La Paz Plaza to witness children and youth aged 7 to 14 pit brawn and cleverness in street games.

Like many foundations doing work for children, the internationally recognized Prix Jeunesse, is a leanly staffed organization. It is based in Munich and has been doing credible work for decades.

There is something about the sensational reports of Oscar Oida (GMA Network) and Dolan Castro (ABS-CBN) that must be turning off jurors when we ask them to assess the morning program offerings of their respective stations.

Just when we are too engrossed with Hayden, Ruffa, Korina, A(H1N1) and charter change, an even more a pernicious virus keeps creeping in and we choose to ignore it.

Television is abuzz these days and not because of Ted Failon alone.

One of the common messages in the Anak TV advocacy is delivered on television by Mikee Cojuangco Jaworski: “It is best that kids do not have TV sets in their bedrooms; that way, parents know what they are watching,”

We were not surprised that a small hotel function room could easily accommodate the major child-advocate groups operating in the country.

In America, two-thirds of parents said they are very concerned about violence that children are exposed to in the media. This was stated in a report released by Kaiser Family Foundation a few years ago. The report also mentioned that two in three parents are closely tracking their children’s television viewing and use of electronic media.