Los Angeles, USA - Sidney Poitier, Hollywood's first major Black movie star and the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar, has died at 94, prompting an outpouring of grief from the entertainment industry and beyond. Stars including Denzel Washington along with current and past US presidents...
Malacañang is one with the rest of the country in mourning the passing of National Artist for Literature F. Sionil Jose, saying he was an example of a true Filipino. F. Sionil José (Photo by Noel Pabalate) Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles made the statement after the Filipino novelist's family...
Her latest K-drama "Snowdrop" is still showing On January 5, Agency Landscape Entertainment released a statement: "This is actress Kim Mi Soo’s agency Landscape Entertainment. We are relaying sorrowful and heartbreaking news. Kim Mi Soo suddenly passed away on January 5. The bereaved family is...
Sigfreid Barros-Sanchez succumbed to stroke Monday, Jan. 3, at the Philippine Heart Center. The filmmaker-writer-actor was 46. His wife, Kaye, told ABS-CBN News Tuesday that he was in coma 11 days prior. Among Barros-Sanchez’ more popular efforts include “Lasponggols,” which he wrote and...
ITAPETINGA, Brazil – The death toll from heavy rain and flooding that has plagued the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia since November rose to 20 on Monday, amid incessant torrents that have displaced almost 63,000 people, authorities said. Two new fatalities were recorded in the town of...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) has stopped releasing updates of the casualties of typhoon "Odette" following a big discrepancy on the death toll it has been reporting compared to the data of the Office of Civil Defense (OCD). As of Tuesday, Dec. 21, the PNP reported reported in its 6 a.m....
Filmmaker-journalist-actress Arlyn dela Cruz has passed away. Her children confirmed this via social media on Monday, sharing their mother succumbed to colon cancer. “Earlier today, our mother passed away after six years of battling colon cancer,” her daughters Katrina Greta and Dominique said...
(PHILIPPINE STATISTICS AUTHORITY) Ischemic heart diseases, cerebrovascular diseases, and neoplasms remained the top three causes of death in the country from January to September 2021, said the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) in its preliminary report. "Incidentally, these were also the...
Anne Rice, the author responsible for reinventing gothic fiction and the vampire genre, died Dec. 11 from complications of a stroke. The author’s death was announced by her son, Christopher Rice, through the former’s social media. “She left us almost nineteen years to the day my father, her...
"You'll be the death of me." President Rodrigo Duterte speaks during the pre-taped “Talk to the People” public briefing on Dec. 13, 2021 (Malacañang photo) President Duterte had this to say to Filipinos who, over nine months into the government's mass vaccination program, still refuse to get...
The book was even adapted to film Christopher Rice posted on behalf of his mother Anne Rice on Facebook that the 80-year-old author has passed away on December 11, Saturday. Anne Rice was considered one of the bestselling authors who focused stories about vampires and other entities. Anne Rice...
Senator Richard Gordon on Thursday pushed for the passage of the measure mandating law enforcers to provide accurate reporting of deaths and illnesses of persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) and detained children in conflict with the law (CICL). Gordon, who chairs the Senate Committee on Justice and...
