The bid of Junna Tsukii to earn a spot in the Tokyo Olympics got a big boost as she bagged a gold medal in the World Karate Federation (WKF) Premier League Sunday, May 2 (Monday in Manila) in Lisbon, Portugal. The win of the Filipino-Japanese karatedo star – gold medal winner in the last...
President Duterte has vowed to protect press freedom but also appealed to media practitioners to uphold truth, fairness, accuracy, and transparency. President Rodrigo Duterte (Malacañang) On the observance of World Press Freedom Day Monday, May 3, the President recognized the vital role of a...
Rabiya Mateo is ecstatic reaching a new milestone on social media. The Philippines' representative to the upcoming Miss Universe pageant has garnered 800,000 followers on Instagram. To celebrate, Rabiya channeled Priyanka Chopra's red carpet look at the 2018 Met Gala. View this post on...
Why everyone’s participation is important in this fight HOPE IN VIALS This week's Philippine Panorama deep dives into the technicalities of the COVID-19 vaccine. Cover design by Jules Vivas It has been more than a year since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the latest record-breaking...
The numbers of recommended vaccine doses administered to children dropped across the Philippines, which health experts fear could lead to an outbreak of other diseases amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. (Pixabay) According to Dr. Kim Patrick Tejano, Program Manager of the National...
UNICEF Philippines Chief Health and Nutrition Dr. Malalay Ahmadzai More than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s easy to feel paralyzed by the challenges we are facing in the Philippines. Many are suffering from the effects of the pandemic, especially children. Not being able to go to school,...
Discovery Hospitality Corporation (DHC), the management unit for publicly-listed Discovery World Corporation upscale hotel and resort properties, is expanding its reach to include the lower segments of the market. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, DWC said DHC is launching a...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House We are delighted that our son, Congressman Christopher de Venecia, spearheaded the restoration of the home economics building of our old school, the Dagupan Elementary School, now West Central Elementary School, which served as the brief...
Despite the pandemic-related disruptions to schooling, a sophomore student from the Bicol University (BU) faced the challenges head on and won in this year's World S!NERGY competition. (Rica Marfil/Bicol University FB) Rica Marfil, a 2nd year Civil Engineering student, emerged as the Champion in...
Panic gripped residents in Batanes when a backhoe operator accidentally excavated an unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Basco town, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said Friday, April 23. The PCG said the UXO was discovered by an unidentified backhoe operator in Barangay Chanarian during a clearing...
11 things to delight—or inspire—the book nerd in you Waking the Dead and Other Stories by Yvette Tan There’s room for urban legends and Philippine folklore in the modern, high-tech, fast-paced world, as in the stories in this collection of short, unsettling tales, where there remains a realm...
Photo from asianchess.com Filipino chess legend Eugene Torre joins the list of nominees to the World Chess Hall of Fame, becoming the first Asian male to be granted such honor. Torre, who turns 70 in November, joins Polish-Argentine Grandmaster Miguel Najdorf and GM Judit Polgar of Hungary...
