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Siargao Island in Surigao del Norte province hogged the global surfing spotlight anew as the World Surf League (WSL) qualifying series for women opened recently at the famous “Cloud 9” in General Luna town. 

Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri has been appointed as chairman of the organizing committee of the 2019 Southeast Asian (Sea) Games, which the Philippines will host for the fourth time since 1981. 

San Francisco: Microsoft Corp. unveiled last week a new personal computer (PC) model that’s installed with a new Windows operating system (OS) that’s slightly different from its previous version. 

The National Basketball Association (NBA) and Cloudfone, the flagship mobile phone and tablet brand of the Cellprime Group, one of the Philippines’ top technology companies, announced recently the launch of the first Cloudfone NBA Edition smartphone in Southeast Asia. 

Jabra, considered the leader in the development of professional communications and sound solutions, announced last month the availability of the Jabra Speak 710 in the local market. 

By Alvin I. Dacanay In a move seen as a return of the practices that marked earlier, scandal-plagued editions of the Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) and a reversal of the lauded artistic gains scored in last year’s edition, the festival’s executive committee (execom) for 2017 issued late last week its call for submissions of screenplays and finished films to …

In honor of August as Buwan ng Wika (Filipino Language Month), the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) is partnering with commercial theaters to exclusively screen Filipino films nationwide in an event called Pista ng Pelikulang Pilipino (Fiesta of Filipino Films), which will run from August 16 to 22, 2017. 

Almost twenty years after it debuted at the University of the Philippines (UP) in Diliman, Quezon City, Lean: A Filipino Musical will be staged for a third time, this time by the UP Manila Dramatista group, at the Adamson University Theater on May 12 and 13, 2017. 

More than 500 years after Europeans sailed across previously unexplored oceans and set foot on what is now the Philippines, Filipinos now have the chance to explore and acquaint themselves with Europe without ever setting foot there through Layag: European Classics in Filipino, the first anthology of its kind that gathers the Filipino translations of 14 short-story classics from 11 …

In an effort to share with the world the priceless collections that have “nourished the minds of countless generations of Filipino students,” the University of Santo Tomas (UST) and UnionBank of the Philippines unveiled the school’s massive, multivolume catalogues of rare books and periodicals at the Edsa Shangri-La hotel in Mandaluyong City on May 5.