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Broadcast media giant GMA Network earned top honors for the Philippines at the ContentAsia Awards 2024, taking home four awards, including a Gold medal for “Secret Slaves: The Jessica Soho Special Report on Human Trafficking.” “Secret Slaves: The Jessica Soho Special Report on Human Trafficking,” won the Gold Award in the Best Current Affairs Programme Made in Asia for Regional …

It was amazing how it took him only less than five minutes to finish a quick pen-and-ink portrait of myself, warts and all, when I stumbled upon him recently. I was a guest, one of tens of thousands, at the 70th birthday celebration of an old friend, Mario Mamon, my high school classmate in De La Salle Lipa, held in …

To date, Cinemalaya has nurtured over 200 Filipino filmmakers and showcased over 1,000 of their works, including full-feature films, shorts, documentaries, Filipino film classics, and art films. The country’s biggest and pioneering independent film festival has been relentless in developing and supporting the production of independent Filipino films since it was founded in 2005, bringing new narratives that embody the …

Queen of All Media Kris Aquino is back in the Philippines after almost three years of medical treatment in the US. Fashion designer Michael Leyva and Kris’ friend-politician Len Alonte confirmed Aquino’s arrival in the Philippines recently. It must be remembered that Kris said in her online appearance that she’d be back home in September to do her immunosuppressant infusion …

The University of Santo Tomas (UST), aside from being a pontifical university, is an inclusive school–apart from its coed enrollment–for all social stations of students. Being a bastion of education, what matters most is an equal opportunity in learning that also transcends gender, age, occupation, spiritual beliefs etc. In my college days at the Faculty of Arts and Letters (Artlets), …

Martin Nievera remains grounded after 42 years in showbiz. The Concert King declared in a recent media conference: “If you really go with the stages that you go through, there’s only one thing in showbiz that is constant and true. And that’s there’s someone who will always replace you. Someone will always be better than you. Always.” Martin admits being …

Look at their scenes in the movie “Maple Leaf Dreams,” especially the light romantic ones, and see for yourself the right chemistry these two people exudes. Lead actors LA Santos and Kira Balinger are students who eventually become lovers after they had an altercation solved by a light settlement of “batu-bato pik” in front of an eatery in a nearby …

Quezon City, Philippines – September 5, 2024 – Just over a week before Ice Seguerra’s highly anticipated birthday concert, Videoke Hits: OPM Edition, on September 13, tickets have officially SOLD OUT! But fans who missed their chance to join the fun need not worry—a second show has been added on November 8, 2024, at the Music Museum. This third edition …

by Boy Villasanta Chinoy artist Rebecca Chuaunsu and versatile thespian Ronnie Lazaro won Best Actress and Best Actor, respectively, at thd recently concluded 2024 Sinag Maynila Film Festival held at the Metropolitan Theater in Manila Sunday night. Chuaunsu bagged the prize for her role as the demented Chinese woman whose memory is restored with the aid of her locket necklace …

What’s your simple pleasure? My friend, Dante, says that one of life’s surprising pleasures is taking coffee with semi-ripe mango and two thumbs of Butterfinger in the morning. My simple pleasure comes easier, given my rural upbringing, having grown up in a farm, way ahead of that controversial mayor. Give me fried (saba) bananas, one that’s semi-ripe, crunchy, with matching …