Iloilo City on the island of Panay bagged the ASEAN Clean Tourist City Award for the Philippines
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Atom Pornel believes that the power of beauty could help the Philippines to rise to the top. He is a travel and fashion enthusiast who loves to explore Filipino culture.
Michelle Dee showcases Filipino color and fashion at Miss World pageant in London
Miss World Philippines 2019 Michelle Dee flaunted Filipino fashion when she arrived in London for the Miss World competition. The country’s pageant representative left the country on November 20 wearing a pink suit and arrived in England’s capital in her suit bearing the colors of the Philippine national flag. Dee’s suit, designed by Nono Palmos, […]
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Google Doodle celebrates Las Piñas Bamboo Organ’s 195th anniversary
Google today joined the City of Las Piñas for the 195th year celebration of its famed Bamboo Organ – the oldest, largest, and only known bamboo pipe organ in existence – through a special Doodle. The world’s largest search engine featured the cartoon version of the Las Piñas Bamboo Organ on the home page of […]
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Iñigo Pascual performs at Los Angeles Clippers NBA game in iconic Staples Center
Filipino singer-actor Iñigo Pascual made the Filipino nation proud with his successful and high-energy performance during the Los Angeles Clippers National Basketball Association (NBA) game at the iconic Staples Center in California. Pascual showed off his singing and dancing prowess in front of over 19,000 NBA fans at the full-capacity Staples Center during the half […]
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La Union’s Paolo Gallardo brings home Mister Grand International 2019 2nd Runner-up honors from Myanmar
Mister Philippines Paolo Gallardo of La Union successfully raised the country’s colors in Yangon, Myanmar by winning the Mister Grand International 2019 2nd Runner-up title. The 19-year old senior high school student and model shined among the male contestants from all over the world and was proclaimed as one of the winners in the coronation […]
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Centuries-old San Agustin Church in Intramuros gets free restoration cleanup with German technology
Centuries-old San Agustin Church inside the historic walled city of Intramuros in Manila is undergoing restorative cleanup with German technology – for free. Kärcher, a German firm that invented the cleaning technology, is sponsoring the cleanup of the UNESCO World Heritage Site’s facade which began November 15 and ends on November 21. Completed in 1607 […]
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Michael Angelo Marquez, Stephanie Sabalo secure Latin DanceSport Silver medal in Lithuania
Filipino dancesport duo Michael Angelo Marquez and Stephanie Sabalo successfully raised the Philippine flag in Lithuania after winning the silver medal at the 2019 Kaunas Open. The Pinoy ballroom dancers shined among the contestants from 18 countries and were hailed as the international tilt’s 1st Runner-Up in the Rising Stars Latin Open category of the […]
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Filipino language course in Philippine Studies offered in Humboldt University of Berlin
Filipino language is now being offered in the Advancing Philippine Studies Program of Humboldt University of Berlin in Germany. Germany’s premier university will have its first Filipino language full module as one of the major components of the Philippine Studies Program in the HU’s Institute of Asian and African Studies (HU-IAAW) starting Summer Semester 2020 […]
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Rizal’s Flordeliz Mabao brings home Miss Scuba International 2nd Runner-up in Malaysia
Miss Philippines Flordeliz Mabao of Taytay, Rizal gracefully raised the Philippine colors in international beauty pageantry after winning the Miss Scuba International 2019 Second Runner-up title in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. The Filipina beauty shined among candidates from all over the world and was hailed as one of the pageant’s top 3 winners in the coronation […]
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Parangal Dance Company celebrates 455th Manila-Acapulco galleon trade anniversary in Mexico
The Parangal Dance Company of California is set to represent the Philippines in the celebration of the 455th anniversary of the Manila-Acapulco galleon trade. The 2-day event slated on November 20 to 21 will serve as the dance company’s debut performance in Mexico. “We were invited po as cultural ambassadors by the organizers here in […]
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Nueva Ecija’s Dancel Jan Mendoza wins Mister Continental International Title in Malaysia
Mr. Philippines Dancel Jan Mendoza from Nueva Ecija successfully raised the Philippine flag in Malaysia after winning the Mister Continental International 2019 crown. The Novo Ecijano pageant titleholder shined among all the candidates from all over the world and won not just the pageant title but also the four major awards of Mister Photogenic, Best […]
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Dumaguete’s Vanessa Udarbe-Quezon crowned M.S. International 2019 in Singapore
Filipina beauties reigned supreme in Singapore as Vanessa Udarbe-Quezon of Negros was crowned 2019 M.S. International and two other country bets, Rowena Valle of Laguna and Renzel Mae Maala Samonte of Batangas, romped off with their own titles. Vanessa Udarbe-Quezon, whose mother hails from Dumaguete City, took home the M.S. International crown at the 2019 […]
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