The 43rd Korean Association of Film Critics Awards, known as the Critics Choice Awards, announced the winners of this year’s edition. The Korean Association of Film Critics selected the winners in a meeting held on Sept. 1. The awarding ceremony will be held on Sept. 21 at the Korea Press...
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Last Monday, the nation marked this year’s celebration of National Heroes Day. While staying on the watch for possible effects of rains triggered by Typhoon Goring, our thoughts returned to a conversation we overheard some five years ago at a gathering of educators from the...
The Antipolo City local government on Wednesday, Aug. 23, cautioned its citizens against leptospirosis as the national government observed an uptick of cases in the CALABARZON region. According to Antipolo City Mayor Jun Ynares, the Department of Health-Center for Health Development (DOH-CHD) had...
Korean actor Park Seo-jun (Park Seo-joon), star of the dramas “Itaewon Class” and “What's Wrong with Secretary Kim,” has been unveiled as the newest global ambassador of the Filipino health and wellness company IAM Worldwide. IAM Worldwide is happy to have Park Seo-jun as an advocate...
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Last week, we saw the escalation of an already-heated discussion on what some experts believe is a looming major rice shortage and a similarly sizzling debate on whether or not the national government should resort to the importation of basic food items to fill the gap of an...
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL This coming Saturday, Aug. 19, the nation will honor the second president of the Philippines, Manuel Luis Quezon, as he marks his 145th birthday. The nation has recognized the late MLQ as the “Ama ng Wikang Pambansa,” having pushed for and signed the presidential...
As part of its efforts in widening the scope of its disaster response and emergency rescue capabilities, the Antipolo City local government conferred 10 new groups of volunteers of its Community Disaster Volunteer Network on Thursday, Aug. 10. Antipolo City Mayor Jun Ynares personally welcomed the...
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL We are celebrating the “Buwan ng Wikang Pambansa.” During the remaining days of August, we will witness special organized events designed to reawaken our consciousness of and love for the mother tongue which, in this case, is the Filipino language based on the Tagalog...
The Antipolo City local government on Thursday, August 3, provided pet supplies to the victims of the landslide in Barangay Sta. Cruz that killed a woman and her pet dog on July 16. According to Antipolo City Mayor Jun Ynares, the local government unit (LGU) distributed dog food, vitamins,...
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL “What’s the obsession with water?” That was the question I recently got from one of our readers who emailed me to ask why I have devoted some of our past few columns to expressing our shared concern regarding the current state of our country’s water supply and to air our...
The Antipolo City local government welcomed on Friday, July 28, eight new centenarians as part of its efforts in recognizing their milestone and their contributions to society. Antipolo City Mayor Jun Ynares identified the centenarians as: Maria Lourdes Vance - Barangay San Jose Parmenia Aglipay -...
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL In his most recent State of the Nation Address (SONA), President Bongbong Marcos announced that he is now “coordinating” with Congress for the creation of the Department of Water Resources (DWR). That was, perhaps, one of the most important highlights of his second SONA, and...
