BLACKPINK member Lisa topped Billboard‘s Hot Trending Songs chart, powered by Twitter, for the second straight week and emerged as the only female artist to hold the top two positions at the same time. According to Billboard, Lisa’s “Lalisa” is the No. 1 song on the Aug. 20-dated chart,...
Senator Joel Villanueva has urged the government to provide long term solutions for job generation in order to address the high poverty incidence in the country. (Mark Balmores/ File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) q Villanueva made the statement after the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported an...
A Korean director admitted to plagiarizing an emblem by Tokyo DisneySea for K-pop group Girls’ Generation’s new music video. Girls’ Generation celebrated their 15th anniversary since their debut by releasing the “Forever 1” album. The emblem used in the Girls' Generation's "Forever 1"...
Rookie K-pop girl group NewJeans topped the weekly physical album chart in Korea two weeks after their official debut. Korea’s Hanteo Chart announced that NewJeans’ debut album “New Jeans,” which was released on Aug. 1, sold 311,271 copies and garnered a physical record index of 368,387.34...
GenerationHOPE Inc. (Hope), the company behind the Hope In A Bottle brand, has for a fourth straight year been named among the world’s best by a non-profit organization that certifies companies based on how they create value for their employees, local communities and the environment. B Lab, a...
Bureaucratic and legislative kinks must be ironed out first before the incoming Marcos administration can allow the 100 percent foreign ownership of power generation ventures in the country. President-elect Bongbong Marcos (Noel Pabalate/ MANILA BULLETIN) President-elect Bongbong Marcos's...
Iconic K-pop group Girls’ Generation will be making their return to the music scene by releasing a new album after five years. Girls’ Generation will release a new album in August to mark their 15th anniversary since debuting in 2007. Girls' Generation in 2017 for "Holiday Night" album (SM...
K-pop girl group Aespa, composed of Giselle, Karina, Ningning, and Winter, have been chosen by Time magazine as one of its 2022 Next Generation Leaders. The list, according to Time, showcases “young people from across fields and around the globe who are working to build a better world.” Aespa...
It has been two years and counting since the pandemic started and even if no one knows for sure how long this pandemic will last, one thing is certain, we can surely handle a lot more of the uncertainty than we think we can. Without doubt, with or without the pandemic, the future is digital and...
President Duterte is considering teaching and rearing young minds after his retirement from public service, stressing the need to “tell the younger generation of what is at stake.” President Rodrigo Duterte speaks during his “Talk to the People” public briefing that was aired on Tuesday,...
BLACKPINK’s Lisa, Aespa’s Winter, BLACKPINK’s Jennie, Aespa’s Karina and Girls’ Generation’s Taeyeon grabbed the first five places in the brand reputation index for individual K-pop girl group members for January 2022. The Korea Corporate Research Institute analyzed 97.73 million pieces...
Road safety has been a long time global and national priority. Data released by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2018 estimate that 1.35-million lives are lost due to road accidents each year. In the Philippines, the Metro Manila Accident Reporting and Analysis System recorded 65,032...
