The Philippines has regained its seat at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), marking the 3rd consecutive term for the nation to be in the agency’s Executive Council. The Philippine seat was secured during elections of the new IOC officers and members of the Executive Council at the […]
Read more →Author: Angie Quadra-Balibay
Angie is a self-confessed reformed news critic who vows she has finally found infinite value in delivering the good news. She teaches students of all ages how to make the important interesting for audiences across media platforms.
Netflix star Millie Bobby Brown takes on Philippine monsters in hilarious video
Netflix star Millie Bobby Brown, best known for her sci-fi horror series Stranger Things, took on different monsters from Philippine folklore in a hilarious video that showed the actress talking about how she would fight off the other-worldly creatures. In the Netflix video released July on social media, Millie Bobby Brown started off saying that […]
Read more →
Filipino-American composer Nilo Alcala wins coveted American Prize music competition
Filipino-American composer Nilo Alcala has won the coveted 2018-19 American Prize in Composition for Major Choral Works in the Professional Division. The American Prize National Nonprofit Competitions in the Performing Arts cited Nilo Alcala’s Manga Pakalagian (Ceremonies), performed by the Grammy-nominated Los Angeles Master Chorale for its “Made in LA” concert at the Disney Concert […]
Read more →
Ryan Gersava wins Inspired Leadership Award, joins elite list of previous winners Sir Richard Branson, Melinda Gates
Virtualahan’s founder, Ryan Gersava, won the Inspired Leadership Award at 2019 The Performance Theatre (TPT) conference held in Seattle – the first Filipino to receive the honors that lists Virgin Group’s Sir Richard Branson and Melinda Gates of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as previous winners. Ryan Gersava was one of this year’s 4 TPT […]
Read more →
Philippine Women’s National Football team scores biggest jump in FIFA World Rankings
The Philippine Women’s National Football Team scored the biggest jump in the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Rankings after a terrific performance in the Olympic Qualifiers this year in Doha, Qatar. The Malditas finished the second round of the Qualifiers with six points after two wins and one defeat. They beat Iran 2-nil […]
Read more →
Eco-friendly architecture in Rizal bags Popular Choice award at Architizer A+ in New York
Rizal Eco-Center, the Philippines’ entry for eco-friendly architecture, bagged the Popular Choice award at the 2019 Architizer A+ Awards in New York. The winning Rizal Eco-Center design will be made of 30,000 recycled plastic bottles and bamboo as primary materials. The pavilion will be built on the northeastern slope of Tayak Hill in the heart […]
Read more →
Yuka Saso and Aidric Chan win prestigious US junior golf tournaments
Yuka Saso and Aidric Chan brought honour to the Philippine golfing world by bagging two major junior tournaments in the United States. Asian Games gold medalist Yuka Saso captured the Girls Junior PGA Championship in Hartford, Connecticut and Chan became the first Filipino to win a Junior World Championship crown in five years in San […]
Read more →
Sean Patrick Villanueva makes history in World Cube Championship in Australia
Filipino kid, Sean Patrick Villanueva, made history in the 2019 World Cube Association World Championship by becoming the youngest player to place in the Top 3. The 11-year-old bested more than 800 older and more experienced rivals to finish second in the 3x3x3 Cube competition held in Melbourne, Australia. The 6th-grade student from Ateneo de […]
Read more →
Philippines upsets South Korea to bag 3rd in Asia-Oceania Floorball Championships
The Philippine floorball team beat the highly-favored South Korean team in overtime, 6-5, to win the bronze medal in the recently concluded Asia Oceania Floorball Confederation Cup at the Alonte Sports Arena in Manila. The third-place finish was the best performance of any Philippine team in this competition. In 2017, the team ended up in […]
Read more →
Fr. Gerard Francisco Timoner III 1st Filipino & Asian priest to head global Dominican Order
A Filipino priest from the Bicol region is the new worldwide head of the Order of Preachers, also known as the Dominicans. Fr. Gerard Francisco Timoner III, as the new Master of the Dominican Order, will oversee the various ministries worldwide of the Dominican friars, who number some 6,000 across more than 80 countries, and […]
Read more →
Makati’s Blackbird adjudged one of Monocle’s 50 Best Restaurants in the World
Blackbird, located at The Nielson Tower along Makati Avenue, has been chosen one of Monocle’s 50 favorite restaurants in the world for 2019. The Monocle Restaurant Awards published by the British magazine Monocle is one of the most sought after awards by food establishments around the globe as it is given by editors of the […]
Read more →
Cultural Center of the Philippines all set to host choir champions in 1st Asia Choral Grand Prix
The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) is all set to host six choral champions from across Asia who is coming to Manila for the first Asia Choral Grand Prix (ACGP). The 1st Asia Choral Grand Prix will have the 6 top prize winners of the 2017 and 2018 international choral festivals in Asia vying […]
Read more →