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MANILA, Philippines — "False and misleading" — such was the reaction of Miss Universe Organization (MUO) over news of having a delegate from Saudia Arabia for the pageant's 2024 edition.
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief “Directors Factory Philippines,” an omnibus film project initiated by the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, has completed production in the historic city of Dapitan. Operating since 2013, when it kicked off in Taiwan, the Directors’ Factory works with a new partner country each year to mentor eight budding filmmakers who are preparing ambitious first or second feature projects that they will make in pairs. The Philippines was selected in November. The four resulting co-written and co-directed short films will be screened as part of the Directors’ Fortnight (aka Quinzaine des Cineastes) in May. Dapitan, a city in The Philippines’ Zamboanga Peninsula, known for its many shrines and as the place of exile of Philippines’ national hero, Jose Rizal.
MANILA, Philippines — Maria Gigante, a model, host and influencer from Bantayan Island, Cebu, was crowned the second Universal Woman winner in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on March 22.
«My first reaction was that the teacher is only human; we get to the point that we get angry when we get frustrated… I saw her explanation and I told the regional office that there would be no penalties for the teacher,» Duterte told reporters on the sidelines of her visit to Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
MANILA, Philippines — No penalty will be meted on the teacher who went viral on social media for scolding her students while she was live on short video platform TikTok, Vice President and concurrent Education Secretary Sara Duterte said yesterday.
The Tres Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Farmers Association Inc. in the province of Cavite renewed its contract to supply the required agricultural products of the Taiwan Fund for Children and Families (TFCF) for its childcare program to improve maternal, infant, and child nutrition in the Philippines.James Arthur T. Dubongco, Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer II in Cavite said the first Memorandum of Agreement was signed last year between Danilo Arnes, President of the Tres Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Farmers Association, Inc., and Kai Li Chang, TFCF Philippines Branch Director.
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines is the second happiest country in Southeast Asia, according to the annual World Happiness Report released by the University of Oxford’s Wellbeing Research Center in the United Kingdom.?
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines is pushing for stronger defense relations with Cambodia, which will further boost bilateral cooperation in various fields.