Filipino-American singers Olivia Rodrigo and Saweetie have bagged top honors in Billboard’s annual Women in Music awards in the United States.
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Margo is a voracious reader - some might even say she reads too much for her own good. She majored in BS Psychology and hopes to become a forensic psychologist one day. She’s also an aspiring writer, mental health advocate, and a staunch believer of equality.
FINAL LIST: Official National Candidates in Philippines’ 2022 General Elections
The final ballot face list of the national candidates for President, Vice President, Senators, and Party Lists, and the local candidates for Congress, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and City/Municipal Council for the May 2022 general elections have been released.
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Pope Francis appoints Manila priest Arnaldo Catalan as new envoy to Rwanda
Pope Francis has appointed Filipino priest Monsignor Arnaldo Sanchez Catalan of the Archdiocese of Manila as the new apostolic nuncio to Rwanda.
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Filipino-Canadian Primrose Knazan bags 1st place in Jewish Playwriting tilt
Filipino-Canadian playwright and novelist Primrose Madayag Knazan has won first place in the Canadian Jewish Playwriting Competition with her work, Precipice.
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Philippines’ Ben&Ben hailed Best Band in all-Asia BandLab NME Music Awards
The Philippines’ Ben&Ben has snagged the title of the Best Band From Asia in this year’s BandLab New Musical Express (NME) Awards.
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Filipino-born Johncarlo Legaspi named U.S. Navy Junior Sailor of the Year
Filipino-American Petty Officer Johncarlo Legaspi has been named the Junior Sailor of the Year by the United States Navy’s Maritime Prepositioning Ships Squadron (MPSRON) 3.
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Filipina director, short film bag historic 1st wins in Sundance film fest
Filipino independent films “Leonor Will Never Die” and “The Headhunter’s Daughter” have bagged historic firsts for the Philippines in this year’s online edition of the Sundance Film Festival, the largest independent film festival in the United States.
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Philippines’ Mobile Kart Classroom wins Taiwan Excellence Global Campaign
The Philippines’ Educating and Empowering the Community through Mobile Knowledge Access and Resource for Training (KART) project has won the inaugural Taiwan Excellence: Sharing is Caring global campaign launched by Taiwan’s Bureau of Foreign Trade.
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Maricel Soriano stars with Fil-Ams in romcom to fight anti-trans, anti-Asian violence
Multi-awarded Filipino actress Maricel Soriano has joined the cast of the upcoming romantic-comedy film “Re-Live: A Tale of an American Island Cheerleader” which is led by Filipina-American stars Rain Valdez and Rachel Leyco.
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REVIEW: Gary Granada, Faye Yupano enchant audience at Pancitan concert for human rights ed
Gary Granada, one of the Philippines’ premier singer-songwriters, teamed up with classically trained vocalist Faye Yupano of Project Yazz to entertain online concert-goers in a musical evening unlike any other held live at the Pancitan Studio to raise funds for human rights education work.
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Filipino director Mervin Malonzo bags Paris Film Award for komiks Ella Arcangel adaptation
Filipino komiks creator Mervin Malonzo has bagged the Directing Award at this year’s Paris International Animation Film Festival (PIAFF) for the short film adaptation of Philippine horror-graphic novel, Ella Arcangel.
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Fil-Am actress Ivory Aquino plays 1st trans character in DC live-action Batgirl
Filipino-American actress Ivory Aquino has been cast in the upcoming HBO Max movie “Batgirl” as Alysia Yeoh, the first transgender character to appear in a live-action DC film.
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