Filipino wins top honors in 2008 ‘Hollywood Olympics’

" LOS ANGELES - Thirteen-year-old Filipino Catherine Loria from Tiaong, Quezon shared honors with senior contestant Andrew Clarke from Jamaica when they were proclaimed Grand Champion Performers of the World in the 2008 World Championships of Performing Arts (WCOPA) or the...

'Titanic' saved their lives

Some films move societies.  Others save lives.  And despite its platitude, there are scenes in the movie 'Titanic' that have been key to their survival.  28 men and women drifted for more than 22 hours before reaching the shores of...

Seasonal flu starts in Asia -- study

Next time you go down with that nasty flu--hopefully not the H5N1 strain--think about the thousands of kilometers those viruses (what ever happenedto 'virii'?) have traveled to get to your system. " Viruses that originate in East and Southeast Asia migrate around the...

MCGI Presiding Ministers expect stronger entries in next ASOP Music Fest

Quezon City, Philippines – “I expect more from you. [The] People of God should be better than the people of this world…compose more songs out of our faith…”This was the challenge given by Bro. Eli Soriano, Presiding Minister of the Members Church of God...

RP Out-of-school youth to be given high-tech education

The eSkwela project by the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT), in cooperation with the Asia Pacific Economic Council (APEC) Education Foundation, aims to provide ICT-enhanced education for Filipino out-of-school youth (OSY) and adults. The program...

Philippine jail system a living hell

In a new book published about the harrowing jail system in the Philippines, Raymund Narag painted his a bleak picture of a prison system more in tune with the 19th century than the modern age. The author laid out in graphic detail the subhuman existence inmates were forced to...