The music video of Arc North and Polarbearz “Together Now”, filmed at the Manila North Cemetery and starring an all-Filipino cast and crew, bagged the Best Music Video Award at the Los Angeles Film Awards (LAFA) for the month of October 2019. The music video of Swedish artists Arc North and Polarbearz featuring Camilla Neideman, […]
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Pangasinan’s Jessa Mae Magyano De Vera wins Ms. Cosmo World 2019 2nd place honors in Malaysia
Jessa Mae Magyano De Vera of San Carlos City in Pangasinan successfully raised the Philippine flag in Malaysia after winning Ms. Cosmo World 2019 2nd Runner-up honors for the country. The country’s pageant bet shined among 25 candidates from all over the world and emerged in the pageant’s top 3 titlists in the coronation held […]
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Marinel Paguia wins 2019 Asia-Pacific Bartending Championship in Indonesia
Marinel “Manel” Paguia, of TGIFridays Philippines, is the new Asia Bartending Champion after she won the 2019 Asia-Pacific Bartending Championships in Jakarta, Indonesia. Paguia won both the Freestyle and Compulsory rounds besting contenders from Guam, Japan, Taiwan, and host Indonesia to claim the Asia-Pacific Bartending Champion title in competitions hosted by TGIFridays Gandaria City in […]
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Davao farmer Jose Saguban of Auro Chocolate wins International Cocoa Awards in Paris
Philippine cacao won one of the main awards for the Top 20 Best Cacao Beans in the World, and the Auro Chocolate cocoa farmer from Davao that helped made it all happen, Jose Saguban, was in Paris, France to receive the award. The prestigious International Cocoa Awards (ICA) of the Cocoa of Excellence (CoEx) Programme […]
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Puerto Princesa’s Eco-Artist JC Enon wins iCARES Earth Hero Award in Las Vegas
Puerto Princesa’s Eco-Artist JC Jandro Enon has been named an iCARES Earth Hero Awardee by the 2019 interEdx Center for Advanced Research on Energy and Sustainability (iCARES) and The World Education Summit on Sustainability and Transformation. JC Enon’s Moto In Can miniature creations made out of used aluminum cans were cited by iCARES and the […]
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College of Saint Benilde Romancon Dance Company wins All-Generation Championships title in South Korea
Saint Benilde Romancon Dance Company (Romancon) of the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde (DLS-CSB) made the Philippines proud Sunday as the student group won the All Generation Championships (AGC) World Final in South Korea. The Benildeans’ hip hop routine lifted the Philippines’ representatives to 1st place with a total score of 9.245, besting Thailand’s […]
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UP, Ateneo, La Salle alumni trio wins Break the Fake Grand Hackathon with news sites tracer project
Three friends who are graduates of the University of the Philippines (UP), Ateneo De Manila University (ADMU), and De La Salle University (DLSU) formed Team Troglodyte and went on to win the first-ever Break The Fake Grand Hackathon. Team Troglodyte, composed of Dominic Ligot of UP, Carlos Nazareno of Ateneo, and Nikko Torcita of DLSU […]
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Pisay alumnus Justin Banusing’s team FreShip wins IBM’s Food Waste Developer Challenge in U-S
Philippine Science High School (Pisay) – Western Visayas alumnus Justin Banusing and his team from the University of Washington (UW) are the winners of the 2019 IBM Food Waste Developer Challenge. The 19-year-old Bunasing, the eSports Section Editor of the Inquirer.net, is a sophomore at the UW. FreShip, the entry of Justin Banusing with schoolmates […]
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Maria Ressa wins Stanford University Shorenstein Journalism Award
The Philippines’ investigative journalist Maria Ressa is the winner of the 2019 Shorenstein Journalism Award given by Stanford University in California. Ressa, the CEO and executive editor of Rappler news network, is receiving the award from Stanford University’s Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) for her work in helping audiences around the world understand […]
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Negros Island’s Dauin Garden Eels wins London National History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year
A photograph of a colony of garden eels in the waters of Dauin, Negros Island in the Philippines taken by National Geographic Magazine’s David Doubilet won in London National History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year. Doubilet was declared winner of the Under Water Photography for his “The Garden of Eels” shot from a camera […]
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WATCH: Marvel-inspired Saint Louis University School of Medicine bleacher cheering wins Intramurals title
A Marvel Cinematic Universe-inspired bleacher cheering routine by Saint Louis University (SLU) School of Medicine students in Baguio City won the Intramurals title, along with the adoration of thousands of netizens who saw the video of the performance. The 7-minute bleacher cheering routine by the medical students wearing red and white won the school’s Intramurals […]
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Broadway’s Jhett Tolentino wins 9th award for bio-docu “Life Is What You Make It”
Broadway producer Jhett Tolentino’s foray into filmmaking has given him a 9th award for his self-produced biographical documentary, “Life Is What You Make It”, this time from the prestigious New Vision International Film Festival (NVIFF) in Amsterdam The Netherlands. “Life Is What You Make It” won Best Documentary Short at the 2019 edition of the […]
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