Dr. Benilda S. Ebarvia, of the National Metrology Laboratory, is the first Filipino to win the Developing Economies Award (DEN) from the National Metrology Institute (NMI) of Japan.
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Actor Jek Jumawan, Aria movie win Lake City International Film Festival in India
Filipino filmmakers have won major awards at the just-concluded Lake City International Film Festival in India. “Aria” won the Best Film award in the International Category for Features in the festival which screened films from December 22-23 in Delhi. Aria, a movie directed by Carlo Enciso Catu and produced by Ferdinand “Ferdy” Lapuz for Holy […]
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PHL, Amanpulo Resort win Premier Diving destination accolades at World Travel Awards in Oman
The Philippines continues to make waves as a global diving destination, after bagging diving honors at the World Travel Awards (WTA) Grand Final Gala Ceremony at the Royal Opera House in Muscat, Oman. Winning WTA’s 2019 World’s Leading Dive Destination award for the first time, the Philippines bested eight other global dive destinations, namely, Azores […]
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Teenage gymnasts from Butuan, Cebu win 5 Golds in victorious 3-country European campaign
More winning moments for Filipino athletes, this time from two teenage Filipina gymnasts who together took home five gold medals for the Philippines from their 3-country European campaign as the Philippine National Women’s Rhythmic Gymnastics Team. Thirteen-year-old Breanna Labadan raised the Philippine flag on top of the podium three times in a row in Europe […]
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Philippines beats China, 11-1, to win Asian Baseball Championships Bronze in Guangdong
The newly formed Philippine Women’s Baseball Team beat host China in a tourney sweep, 11-1, to bag the overall bronze medal at the Women’s Baseball Asian Cup of the Baseball Federation of Asia (BFA) Asian Baseball Championships. The strong podium finish marks the previously-unranked Filipina baseball team’s international debut in the tournament held in Guangdong, […]
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Lisa Dacanay is 1st Asian to win World Economic Forum Social Innovation Leader Award
Social activist and entrepreneur Lisa Dacanay is the first Asian to win the World Economic Forum (WEF) Social Innovation Thought Leader Award. Dr. Lisa Dacanay, President of the Institute for Social Entrepreneurship in Asia (ISEA), was honored as one of the nine recipients of the inaugural Social Innovation Thought Leader award given by the Schwab […]
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Philippine public schools win double Bronze at World Adolescent Robot Competition in China
Students from Philippine public schools won 2 bronze medals at the World Adolescent Robot Competition (WARC) held in Chongqing, China. The winning Philippine Robotics National Team was composed of the Philippine Robotics EXCEL Olympiad champions for Department of Education schools. Project 6 Elementary School (DepEd Quezon City) and Pitogo High School (DepEd Makati) made podium […]
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Team Philippines win 136 golds in America’s World Championships of Performing Arts
Team Philippines brought home a total of 136 gold medals from the 2019 World Championships of Performing Arts (WCOPA) held in California. Team Philippines picked up a total of 390 medals in the 23rd WCOPA, the largest number of medals won by the country since it joined the annual competitions in 2005. The 2019 team […]
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Philippine students win 6 medals at International Math Olympiad in United Kingdom
The Philippines’ 6-member student delegation to the 60th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) all brought home medals from the competition held in the United Kingdom. The Filipino students performed strongly and won 6 silver and bronze medals from the oldest and most prestigious math olympiad held at the University of Bath from July 11-22. The Philippine […]
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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 […]
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Filipino math wizards win big in Mathematics Without Borders tourney in Bulgaria
Team Philippines competed against more than 1,100 students from Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Iran, Malta, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, and host Bulgaria. Christian Gendrano, a Grade 7 student of De La Salle Santiago – Zobel was the big winner. Gendrano captured the Absolute Winner Cup for being the most successful […]
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3 Filipino designers win Uniqlo’s UT Grand Prix T-shirt Pokémon design tilt
Three Filipino designers are among the winners in this year’s UT Grand Prix (UTGP), the global t-shirt design competition of Japan’s Uniqlo global brand. Twenty-two winning designs were selected from among 18,000 entries – a UTGP record – from over 40 countries. The theme of the 2019 design competition was “Pokémon”, a global anime series […]
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