Breaking News, Latest Philippines Headlines, World, Entertainment, Politics, Weather & Video News
QUEZON City, Philippines – President Rodrigo Duterte will have a busy schedule in September as he sets out to build stronger relations with the other members of the Association of South East Asian Nations. He will visit Brunei to meet with King Bolkiah as well as the Filipino expatriate community in the country. Then he will go to Laos for the 2016 ASEAN Summit. He will also visit Jakarta, Indonesia. According to Presidential Communications Operations […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Filipino boxing star Manny Pacquiao plans to come out of retirement to fight an as yet to be named opponent later this year, his promoter said Tuesday, though the boxer said no fight has yet been set. Bob Arum told American sports broadcaster ESPN that the former welterweight champion plans to fight on either October 29 or November 5 as a main event bout in Las Vegas as long […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Filipino protesters said Monday that Chinese coastguard ships blocked and sprayed them with water as they sailed to a disputed South China Sea shoal to plant a Philippine flag for independence day. China claims most of the strategic and resources-rich sea and has controlled Scarborough Shoal, just 230 kilometres (145 miles) off the main Philippine island of Luzon, since a 2012 standoff with the Philippine Navy. The Kalayaan Atin Ito (Freedom […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (February 26) – We Filipinos are one of the most hard-working, intelligent, and creative ethnicities in the world. The Philippines had won a lot of awards because of its talented people. There’s a lot of Pinoy inventors that were recognized for their outstanding creative minds. To pay tribute to the Filipino creativity, here are some of the locally-made inventions that have made a noise in recent years: The SALt lamp The vision of […]
According to an online money service firm, Filipinos are the second most educated migrants with 1.5 million Filipino migrants being university-educated. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by Lovely Ann Cruz)
THE Italian opera “Tosca” by Giacomo Puccini featuring Korean and Filipino artists will be staged at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Main Theater on October 2 and 4, 2015 at 8:00pm. Playing the title role of Florina Tosca is Korean soprano Yae-Jin Han, with tenor Ji-ho Kim as Mario Cavaradossi and baritone Daesan No as Baron Scarpia. Portraying the supporting roles are tenor Lemuel de la Cruz as Spoletta, Noel Azcona as the Sacristan, […]
MANILA, Philippines, May 6 (Eagle News) — In response to the latest survey conducted by the Social Weather Station (SWS) which revealed that 11.4 million Filipino families are poor, Deputy Presidential Spokesperson Abigail Valte said that the government continues to fight poverty through the continued implementation of its pro-poor program, including the conditional cash transfer program. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Despite his loss against Floyd Mayweather Jr., various senators said that Emmanuel “Manny” Pacquiao is still a pride of the Filipino race. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
MANILA Philippines (Eagle News) — According to the latest survey conducted by the Social Weather Station (SWS), nine million Filipinos are unemployed. This result came about despite the lowering of the country’s unemployment rate to its lowest level since 2010. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
Malaysia conducted a crackdown against undocumented individuals in Sabah wherein three Filipino teenagers were killed.
OPM or Original Pinoy Music is the country’s music industry and has been serving the Pinoy’s love for music. But for quite some time now, a new range of tune has invaded our shores and stirred the music industry. Going as far as calling it the new genre of music, KPop has taken the world, especially the Philippines. K-pop is a musical genre from South Korea that is characterized by a wide variety of audiovisual […]
For this episode of ASEAN in Focus, we have interviewed national artist, Dr. Virgilio Almario. Dr. Almario currently serves as the chairman of the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF), the government agency mandated to promote and standardize the use of the Filipino language. Virgilio Almario, known for his pen name Rio Alma, is a Filipino artist, poet, critic, translator, editor, teacher, and cultural manager. He is also a political scientist and educator. He completed […]
