TANZA, Cavite – A fun money game that took a romantic turn is making the rounds online. During a Christmas eve gathering, Roldan Rivera proposed to his girlfriend, Rachelle Ann Rosales, through the popular "sandok pera" (scoop money) challenge. "Sandok pera" is a game where a player scoops...
Only 14 days are left before the deadline of entries for the startup competition of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT). (Photo / DICT Facebook Page) The Philippine Startup Challenge (PSC) 2021 aims to encourage and support Filipinos to create an innovative and...
Three groups of farmers and agripreneurs from the National Capital Region (NCR) have received a stat-up capital for their agribusiness venture proposals as part of their reward for winning the Young Farmers Challenge Regional Level Award. The winners were picked among the 40 young Filipinos who...
Kusina Kween Home cooks can show off their prized Christmas recipes in Cinema One’s Noche Buena challenge, where a P50,000 cash prize is at stake and the first-ever “Cinema One Kusina Kween” will be hailed. “Kusina Kween: The Noche Buena Challenge Promo” is open to all moms, titas and...
By Dr. Manuel M. Dayrit MD, MSc, Former Secretary of Health Many of us have lost loved ones, friends, or acquaintances to COVID-19. Just this month, I lost a medical school classmate who is an ENT surgeon. On the other hand, I have classmates and friends who battled COVID and survived. The spectre...
Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles expects that there would still be a clamor from the public to have election candidates tested for illegal drug use. Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles holds a virtual press conference on Nov. 19, 2021 (Screenshot from Facebook live) "There's always been that clamor...
AXN Ultimate Challenge Indonesia AXN Asia ushers in their new show, the AXN Ultimate Challenge Indonesia, on Nov. 25, Thursday, at 8:30 pm (Philippine time). You can watch the show on AXN Asia, and it streams worldwide on the official AXN Asia YouTube channel starting Nov. 27. Consisting of six...
The number of K-pop videos uploaded on short-form mobile video platform TikTok has reached 98 million in three years. TikTok and Space Oddity, a music start-up, revealed the “2021 K-pop TikTok Infographic,” which analyzed K-pop video data on TikTok for the first time including K-pop artists...
President Duterte has dared the Senate to make good of its supposed threats to slash the allocations of certain agencies amid the ongoing 2022 national budget hearings of the legislative chamber. JUST DO IT--President Duterte challenges the Senate to significantly reduce the budgets of certain...
What can Israel offer the Philippines in terms of knowledge on how to address the latter's water supply and sanitation problems? A lot, apparently. Flags of the Philippines (top) and Israel (Unsplash) The Embassy of Israel in the Philippines, the Israel Economic and Commercial Mission to the...
The winners of this year’s Philippine Startup Challenge (PSC) will each receive P500,000 worth of grants from the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), the agency said. Philippine Startup Challenge 2021 (Photo from of the DICT's website) The annual startup competition,...
GOVERNANCE MATTERS Former Vice President Jejomar Binay By the time this column sees print, Metro Manila would have been under Alert Level 4 for one week. An official of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) described the situation over the weekend as “good,” but his...
