THOUSANDS of young Filipino athletes across the Philippines will put their athletic skills to the test on the virtual stage as Milo and the Department of Education (DepEd) will hold the MILO-DepEd Palarong Pambahay championships on May 21 and 22, 2022.Finalists from 3,000 young athletes from the elementary and secondary divisions from both public and […]
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Upskilling program targets first batch of 1,000
THE Philippine Business for Education (PBEd) and Citi Foundation said they have entered into a partnership that will admit 1,000 young people to an 18-month upskilling program. The JobsNext program seeks to enhance employability by offering training in artificial intelligence, engineering, cloud computing, and content production. The target is to train two residents per local […]
SOEs Ministry presses for more involvement of younger staff, women
JAKARTA, Feb 28, 2022 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – The State-owned Enterprises (SOEs) Ministry aims to involve more women, millennials, and Papuans either in its companies or in the ministry itself, in a bid to build a diverse, equal and sustainable leadership. SOE MInister Erick Thohir during the ministry’s Girls Take Over Program (27/9/2021) […]
Batuhan: Marcos is dead
AS a young expatriate just prior to the turn of the millennium, one of the questions I was often asked by my foreign colleagues would inevitably concern the Marcoses. More to the p…
Quijano: A dream come true for Magnifico
Congratulations to Mark Magsayo, our newly minted WBC Featherweight champion. Last Jan. 23, this young man from Bohol made the whole country proud by wresting the title from Americ…
Architecture student envisions a new Divisoria
AN ARCHITECTURE student is offering his vision for the rehabilitation of Divisoria in Manila, with the aim to improve the quality of life in the area. Nikko Sale Regalado, a student from the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, School of Design and Arts, proposed a new Divisoria tower called The Cube that will provide […]
ATAL Wins Two Industry Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Digitalisation and Talent Development
HONG KONG, Nov 8, 2021 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Analogue Holdings Limited (stock code: 1977) together with its subsidiaries (referred to as “ATAL Engineering Group”, “ATAL” or the “Group”), a leading electrical and mechanical (“E&M”) engineering services provider in Hong Kong, is pleased to announce its achievement of “Organisation (Contractor Category B) Gold […]
Tabada: ‘Butong’
Nothing different sets apart the husband’s “suki (preferred seller)” for coconut, the family’s shack surrounded by an oasis of dark green coconuts and browning husks beside the Sta. Rosa-Tagaytay Road. Ever since a Laguna pioneer returned home from working as a helper in the U.S. and used the plentiful coconut as substitute in making the […]
VVOC: Infected vaxxed in Central Visayas young adults from working class
THE Visayas Vaccination Operations Center (VVOC) said the vaccinated young adults in Central Visayas who topped the figures for breakthrough infections were from the working class. VVOC spokesperson Dr. Mary Jean Loreche said of the 13,596 total breakthrough infections in the region, 8,209 or 60 percent belonged to the young adult category (18 to 35 […]
Time to Act: Promoting Women and Youth Leadership for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth
by Erick Thohir and Sharon Florencia JAKARTA, Oct 13, 2021 – (ACN Newswire) – COVID-19 has had a significant impact on people’s lives, how businesses and economies operate, and the global sustainability agenda. Nevertheless, the current conditions will provide an unprecedented opportunity to build a better world by implementing more sustainable policies and actions. In addressing these, the G20 […]
Wenceslao: Anti-vaxx
People who are opposed to getting vaccinated to protect themselves from the coronavirus are being called the rather good sounding term, “anti-vaxx.” I think the term originated from the United States where politics has spilled into the matter of public health. Those opposed to President Joe Biden or are fanatics of former president Donald Trump […]
5 reasons to watch ‘Young Royals’
Starring Edvin Ryding and Omar Rudberg, “Young Royals” follows Prince Wilhelm (Ryding), heir to the Swedish throne, who develops a romance with Simon (Rudberg), a non-resident from a working class family, while studying in a prestigious Swedish boarding school. The teen drama genre may be saturated but with amazing chemistry and thoughtful storytelling, the show […]
Tabada: Little bird
“‘Sesame Street” was brought to you today by the letter ‘M’ and the number ‘7’…” I watched the “Sesame Street,” a show intended for preschoolers, long after I thought of myself as a child. I knew intimately the “people in the neighborhood” of Sesame Street long before I knew the first names of a few […]
Young Pinay designer teases new collection in Fashion Week San Diego Spring Showcase
BRIGHT Young Things by Bea Cruz FILIPINA artist Bea Cruz — who was named Top Designer at the 2020 Fashion Week San Diego (FWSD) — recently gave a sneak peek of her upcoming collection at the 2021 FWSD Spring Showcase in California. Called “Bright Young Things,” the full wardrobe will be shown at the FWSD […]
Lagura: Earthly errors, heavenly song
A BUDDING young musician from Halle, Germany ventured to go to England and try his luck in London. Despite his defective English, even though the people of England originally came as Germanic tribes, namely, the Angles and the Saxons, the young Georg Fridrich Handel had to struggle with the tricky English tongue. Moreover, nearly penniless, […]
UN youth envoy to open volunteer conference supporting Habitat for Humanity’s COVID-19 response
MANILA, Apr 23, 2021 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – The United Nations Secretary-General’s Envoy for Youth, Jayathma Wickramanayake, will deliver the opening remarks during the “Youth from Home for Homes” virtual conference, the peak of the 2021 Habitat for Humanity Young Leaders Build campaign. Over a hundred youth from the Asia-Pacific region have registered […]
FASHIONALLY Collection #16 – Fall/Winter 2021
HONG KONG, Apr 15, 2021 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – The pandemic has led to a reset for traditional fashion events, with virtual fashion shows becoming the new normal. This gives fashion brands from around the world the opportunity to make their mark in the digital world and build new horizons for their brands. […]
Cebuano Studies Center, mad to hold writing workshop
THE University of San Carlos Cebuano Studies Center, in association with the Mamugnaong Anak sa Dagang (MAD), is now accepting submissions for Hinashasan: A Workshop for Young Writers, which will be held online on April 9-10, 2021. The aim of the workshop is to discover and cultivate promising young literary talent from the Visayas and […]