This year’s two-day VegFest Pilipinas — a festival that showcases products from local independent vegan businesses — begins tomorrow at the BGC Arts Center in Bonifacio Global City, Taguig.
In its fourth year, VegFest Pilipinas will host 150 all-vegan vendors who will be offering their dishes and wares from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
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Leading telco and digital services provider PLDT has announced that it is currently rolling out its biggest free speed upgrades for Home Fibr subscribers.
These special upgrades will boost speeds of subscribers up to twice the speed of their current plan and will let them enjoy unlimited, uninterrupted video streaming, lag-free gaming, and seamless browsing at home.
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In a strong show of force, 59 global, regional, and national organizations from across Asia-Pacific, Africa, and Europe issued a joint statement demanding the immediate release of the 57 peasant leaders and human rights advocates, including minors, arrested by local authorities in Negros Occidental (around 710 kilometers south of Manila) in the central Philippines last October 31.
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Japanese fashion brand Onitsuka Tiger last October 23 held a runway show for its Spring & Summer 2020 collection at the Shin-toyosu Brillia Running Stadium in Tokyo, Japan.
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I-Witness premiered on Philippine television at the turn of the millennium. It was a time of uncertainty in a changing world, and GMA News and Public Affairs saw the need to tell stories of truth through the documentary format. Twenty years since, I-Witness has become one of the leading TV documentary programs in the country, with over 1,000 life-changing stories that have pursued the truth about Filipino values, culture, current events, and the human condition.
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Nadagdagan pa ang lamang ni Vice President Leni Robredo kay dating Senador Bongbong Marcos matapos ang recount ng Korte Suprema — na tumatayong Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET) — sa tatlong probinsiyang pinili ni Marcos.
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Ongoing na ang pagboto para sa taunang RAWR Awards ng LionHearTV.net, na kumikilala sa pinakamahuhusay sa Philippine entertainment industry.
Tatanggapin ang mga boto para sa ikalimang taon ng RAWR Awards hanggang sa Nobyembre 2.
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Inilabas noong isang araw ng Kataastaasang Hukuman, na tumatayo bilang Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET), ang resulta ng recount sa unang tatlong probinsiyang pinili ni dating Senador Bongbong Marcos kaugnay ng kaniyang electoral protest laban kay Vice President Leni Robredo.
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Pinagdiskitahan kamakailan ni Imee Marcos, bagong senadora at anak ng yumaong diktador na si Ferdinand Marcos, ang mga convenience store dahil sa aniya’y “astronomical” na presyo ng mga paninda sa mga ito.
Dapat daw imonitor ng Department of Trade and Industry ang mga tindahang ito na bukas 24 oras, ayon pa kay Marcos.
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Starting October 6, 2019, all landline numbers with area code 02 will become 8 digits.
In compliance with the directive of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) in its memorandum no. 10-10-2017, all telecom providers in the Greater Metro Manila area will migrate all existing 7-digit landline numbers to 8-digit telephone numbers.
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Habang isinusulat ito, masakit ang kaliwang balikat ko. Gaya nang dati, nakipagsapalaran na naman kasi ako sa MRT kaninang umaga. Mga tatlong tren muna ang dumaan bago ko naipagsiksikan ang sarili ko sa punong-punong bagon. Sumabit sa katawan ng ibang tao ang maliit na bag may lamang payong at powerbank at nahila nito nang todo ang balikat ko.
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I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. (Isaiah 43:19)
In the weeks before the scheduled execution of Mary Jane Veloso in April of 2015, Church people came to understand that a poor Filipina mother of two small boys had been duped into unknowingly carrying a suitcase lined with heroin. As the data unfolded, many were flabbergasted at all of the unfortunate twists, complicated with both major and minor injustices and indifference. Mary Jane Veloso’s experiences reveal that she — like many hopeful migrant workers — was made vulnerable to being trafficked, due to joblessness and inadequate opportunities to provide for her children.
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Gigil si Imee Marcos sa 7-Eleven at iba pang convenience stores. Kumpara sa sari-sari stores, mas mataas at “astronomical” daw kasi ang presyo ng mga paninda sa 24/7 stores.
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