The city government of Zamboanga launched the Zamboanga Hermosa Festival 2023 Celebracion de Colores during a program at the Grand Astoria Hotel Royce Convention Center in Zamboanga City on Thursday, September 21. MAYOR John Dalipe and Vice Mayor Josephine Pareja launched the Zamboanga Hermosa...
One of the most entertaining films in competition at the 80th Venice Film Festival was Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things . The full house audience at Sala Grande Venezia was all smiles, punctuating the screening with long periods of applause. Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo The 141-minute black romantic...
ILOILO CITY – The University of San Agustin (USA) in this city is hosting this year's Asian Youth Theatre Festival (AYTF) 2023. The AYTF 2023 will bring together theater arts groups from 13 Asian countries – Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines,...
BACOLOD CITY – The city government has allotted P10.3 million to subsidize participating barangays in this year’s MassKara street dance and arena competition and Electric MassKara competition. The city council approved the financial assistance during its session on Tuesday, September 12. Mayor...
By Rex M. Rubio “My [oldest] memory was when I was child, there were a lot of fruits displayed in the islands of Kidapawan and I promised myself that if I will be given the chance to lead this beautiful city, I will bring it back and I will bring a better version of our Timpupo Festival.” This...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Padul-ong Festival in Borongan City, Eastern Samar, which celebrates the nativity of patron saint the Blessed Virgin Mary on September 8, attracted tourists from various parts of the world. Highlight of the event was a dance competition and the parade of flotillas with the...
SURIGAO CITY – All roads lead to the famous day-long ethnic dancing 39 th Bonok-Bonok Maradjao Karadjao Festival in this city on Friday, September 9. The police, military, and traffic enforcers are all ready to secure the event. Officials said though Surigao City is one of the most peaceful...
Seven movies will be screened during the 2023 Korean Film Festival (KFF) in the Philippines. Under the theme “Ka-ja! Korea Through Films,” the Korean Film Festival will run from Sept. 22 to 26 and is presented by the Korean Embassy in the Philippines and the Korean Cultural Center (KCC)...
DELIGHTFUL DURIAN Hong Kong MX introduces its latest mooncake with creamy durian filling The Chinese tradition of offering cakes to lunar gods and goddesses started more than a thousand years ago. During the reign of Tang Dynasty Emperor Xizong (AD 873–888), mooncakes were gifted by the...
We arrived on a speedboat in Lido, Venice in time for the 80th Venice Film Festival. First order of the day was to catch our very own, Sam Manacsa’s Cross My Heart and Hope to Die, competing at the Orizzonti – Concorso Corti. A scene from 'Cross My Heart and Hope to Die' The PalaBiennale was...
ILIGAN CITY – The Diyandi Festival, a unique, month-long celebration of three different cultures and merry-making and thanksgiving, opened on August 30 at the Anahaw Amphitheater, Buhanginan Hills, Barangay Pala-o, here. ILIGAN City Mayor Frederick Siao lights a torch signaling the official start...
KIDAPAWAN CITY – Mandaluyong City Mayor Benjamin Abalos Sr. urged the people of North Cotabato to work together to maintain peace in the province. Abalos, guest speaker at the culminating activity of 109th Kalivungan Festival, said he was elated seeing the province's progress compared to the last...
