June, 2022

• 20 June

  More local tourists visit Boracay

  

  Domestic tourists demonstrate revenge travel as they return in full force to Boracay after more than two years of travel restrictions.  Number of local visitors to Boracay last May reached 193,298, around 96% of the total arrivals of 201,368 for the month, according to records from the municipal tourism office.  This was the highest recorded number of visitors in a …

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• 20 June

  Satisfy your ‘revenge travel’ at PTAA travel expos

  

  The rush to book travel vacations – dubbed “revenge travel” – became clearly evident during the recent summer months with the easing of travel restrictions after months of local and national lockdown.  This unfulfilled desire to travel may be quenched by the upcoming grand travel and tour expo, happening on June 24 to 26, 2022, with the Philippine Travel Agencies …

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• 20 June

  Nora Aunor stands up National Artist Awards conferment in Palace

  

  Everyone was excited if not more than proud of Nora Aunor to have finally received this season her prestigious plum from the Order of National Artists Award which was denied to her not once but thrice. The recognition is for her enormous contributions to film and broadcast arts in the Philippines.  Not only her fellow artists from the film community but …

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• 19 June

  Missing visual artists at the 2022 Order of National Artist

  

  The visual arts community in the country is raising hoots about the conspicuous absence of the Order of National Artists for Visual Arts in 2022. Generally, there are painters, installation artists, artisans, etc. who are disappointed with the non-nomination and non-proclamation of any visual artist in the honor roll. Will their gripes just be relegated to the dustbin and backseat …

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• 19 June

  Ice Seguerra appeals to Philippine Senate to speed up same-sex marriage law

  

  Transman actor Ice Seguerra didn’t mince words when she spoke about the delay of the signing into law of same-sex marriage which is languishing in the four walls of the Philippine Senate. “At least in the House of Representatives, the bill is already passed. I don’t know about the senators. It seems that there are people who lobby against it,” …

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• 19 June

  Online film “Secrets” as a moving picture postcard

  

  Award-winning filmmaker Jose Javier Reyes’ latest screen work “Secrets,” a Viva Films’ project that has been streaming in Vivamax isn’t only a daring and thoughtful narrative about unleashing fantasies and criminal minds, it is also a series of feel-good visuals of beautiful sceneries shot in vibrant, lively imagery like picture postcards or paintings except they’re in motion. Director of Photography …

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• 19 June

  Botolan’s Nanay now a voice at Congress

  

  By Jonathan P. Gesmundo  Doris E. Maniquiz – known to the more than 67,000 residents of Botolan, Zambales as Nanay Bing – originally did not belong to a political family.  In 1987, she left her low-paying job as an Engineering Instructor at MAPUA Institute of Technology (earning P2,500 a month) to devote her time at the hardware owned by her …

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• 19 June

  ‘Spiderman’ is PBA Defensive Player of the Year

  

  Arwind Santos remains as one of the top defensive players in the PBA even at age 41.  The evergreen big man is hailed by the PBA Press Corps as its Defensive Player of the Year and will be recognized with the prestigious honor during its 2022 Awards Night tomorrow at the Novotel Manila Araneta Center in Quezon City.  Santos will …

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• 19 June

  UST, NU top UAAP chess competitions

  

  University of Santo Tomas and National University reigned supreme in the UAAP chess competitions recently at the FEU Engineering Building Auditorium.  The Tiger Woodpushers clinched their eighth championship with 28 points, winning in the last round over La Salle, 2.5-1.5 to reclaim the men’s crown for the first time after a decade of waiting.  “Ako kasi I can say na …

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• 19 June

  PSC chief given Presidential Medal of Merit

  

  Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) Chairman William “Butch” Ramirez has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Merit for his successful tenure as chief of the Philippine government’s sports arm.  No less than President Rodrigo Duterte gave the award to Ramirez during a simple ceremony at the Malacanang Palace on Thursday.  “I did not expect this,” said Ramirez, who bared that he …

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