Year: 2023

Denmark’s Grundfos backs Million Trees Foundation with €23,700 grant

LA MESA, Quezon City — The Million Trees Foundation, Inc. (MTFI) received a major boost with a €23,700 (P1.4 million) grant from Grundfos Foundation of Denmark as a memorandum of agreement was signed yesterday at the SMC Multi Purpose Center…

HAMAS TERROR ATTACKS IN ISRAEL CONDEMNED; 3 Filipinos among thousands dead; free hostages — Pope

By ALFRED GABOT, Editor in Chief TEL AVIV/VATICAN/WASHINGTON/MANILA — Following the death of three Filipinos from Pangasinan and Pampanga and a possible third Filipino, world leaders like United States  President Joe Biden and President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. condemned the Hamas militants…

Quezon City still richest PHL city and LGU with P443-B in assets; Cebu, Rizal and Batangas are richest provinces

By Jennifer T. Santos QUEZON CITY — For the third straight year, Quezon City under Mayor Joy Belmonte emerged as the wealthiest city and local government unit in the country in terms of asset in 2022, data from the Commission on…

EJ Obiena gets P10-M reward from school, Chinese groups; gov’t to award add’l P3-M

MANILA – World No. 2 pole vaulter Ernest John “EJ” Obiena last week got a hero’s welcome and much-needed financial support totalling an unprecedented  P10 million from the Chiang Kai Shek College (CKSC) where he studied from prep to high school….

PHL headline inflation hits 6.1% in September

MANILA – Headline inflation settled at 6.1 percent in September this year, higher than the 5.3 percent recorded in August, Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) Undersecretary and National Statistician Dennis Mapa reported. In a briefing, Mapa said inflation in September last year…

PHL, US naval ships hold anti-submarine drills in Southern Luzon

MANILA – Naval ships of the Philippines and the United States held anti-submarine warfare (ASW) drills during the ongoing “Exercise Samasama” in the waters of Southern Luzon. “To enhance the ASW capabilities of the participating Navy ships, an expendable mobile anti-submarine…

Filipinos cited as Daly City celebrate Filipino-American History Month

By Jun Nucum DALY CITY – Filipinos and friends gathered in joyful atmosphere over the weekend at the Marchbank Park in Daly City as they celebrated Filipino-American History Month with the theme “Kasayahan sa Daly City.” The celebration by the…

Belle-Donny prime time tv series ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’ starts this week

After Kathryn Bernardo and Daniel Padilla, the love team of Belle Mariano and Donny Pangilinan maybe the next big thing in showbiz. This will be bolstered in the first prime time television series of Belle and Donny which premiers on…

Alden Richards admits falling in love with Maine Mendoza

Now, it can be told. GMA Network top actor Alden Richards finally admitted that he fell in love with former love team partner Maine Mendoza who is now married to actor-congressman Arjo Atayde. Alden, who is Richard Reyes Faulkerson Jr….

UPSIDE: South San Francisco honors ALLICE as ‘change maker’

SINCE 1989, October has been designated as National Domestic Violence Awareness Month or DVAM in this country when the United States Congress passed public law 101-112. The occasion calls for communities to come together to mourn those who died in…