(NTNews) Australia will send surveillance drones to the Philippines as tensions rise in the South China Sea.
Foreign Minister Penny Wong made the announcement after talks with her counterpart Enrique Manalo in Manila. Australia is also considering participating in joint maritime patrols with the Philippines and the United States.. Read More
(PhilStar) PHNOM PENH – Filipino bets in the country’s very own arnis, Olympic sports and the stronghold of obstacle course race did the heavy lifting for Team Philippines in the 32nd Southeast Asian Games that ended yesterday.
The arnisadors showed their might and collared six golds, two silvers and four bronzes to emerge as the top producer for the 840-strong delegation that amassed a grand total of 58 gold medals, 85 silvers and 117 bronzes.
The taekwondo jins took second honors with a 6-1-8 harvest highlighted by a three-peat in the men’s -54kg class by Tokyo Olympian Kurt Barbosa.
Athletics, boxing, gymnastics – teams headlined by Barbosa’s 2020 Games batchmates EJ Obiena, Carlo Paalam, Nesthy Petecio and Caloy Yulo – “surprise package” wrestling and the world record-breaking and 4-of-4 batting OCR athletes delivered four mints apiece… Read More
(The Manila Times) Global Sikaran president and founder Hari Osias Banaag of the Philippines is set to receive three major citations from prestigious award-giving bodies in Manila and California, USA.
Banaag, who also established the International Sikaran Academy in Central California, will be one of the recipients of USA Martial Arts Hall of Fame Award in a gala night in Fullerton, California on May 20, 2023.
The 10th degree red-belter grandmaster will also be recognized as the “Outstanding Man of Dedication in the Field of Philippine Martial Arts” at the Maharlikang Filipino Awards in Okada Manila on June 2, 2023.
He will receive the highest recognition for establishing a world class organization in the field of martial arts, the Global Sikaran Federation-Philippine Martial Arts, in the USA and Canada.
Known as the Father of Sikaran and pride of Rizal province, Banaag will also receive the Golden Gates Hall of Heroes Award in San Francisco, California on September 16, 2023… Read More
(Interaksyon) It’s truly sports season for the Philippines.
Filipino athletes are set to show off their skills and compete at the world’s largest inclusive sports event this June.
Special Olympics Pilipinas (SOP) on May 11 announced that six athletes will form “Team Philippines” at the Special Olympics World Games to be held in Berlin, Germany from June 17 to 25, 2023
Also known as the Special Olympics World Summer Games 2023, the international sporting event is a platform where athletes with intellectual disabilities can showcase their physical abilities and engage in competitive sports with their peers.
SOP said that the country will send a delegation of 17 individuals with six athletes set to represent the Philippines in aquatics, athletics, and bocce… Read More
(New York Public Radio) May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and NPR is celebrating! We have new Tiny Desk concerts for you to watch, podcast episodes for you to listen to, new stories for you to read and some fun merchandise for you to buy!
Join us as we celebrate and update this post with new content throughout the month.
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NPR Music’s Tiny Desk is celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. These artists represent just a sliver of the cultural diversity that exists within the Asian American and Pacific Islander community.
Sid Sriram
While you can hear [his] musical influences in these songs, what is really striking is the ease with which he molds them all together. Add to the mix his powerful yet warm vocal quality and the ensemble’s effective layering of sounds. “That’s why music in general encapsulates this idea that pushes are momentum,” Sriram said. “I wanted to figure out how we could bring the spectrum of dynamic and nice [music], and the best way to do it.”.. Read More
(The Star) MANILA, May 14 (Xinhua): At least 2,478 women died due to childbirth in the Philippines in 2021, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Philippines said Sunday, expressing concern about the rising number of maternal deaths in the South-East Asian country.
“In the Philippines, we noticed an increase of maternal deaths during the past years: in 2019, 1,458 women died of maternal causes; this number increased to 2,478 in 2021,” UNFPA Philippines country representative Leila Saiji Joudane said in a statement.
“That is around six to seven Filipino women dying daily due to childbirth,” she said, adding that when access to maternal health services is disrupted during emergencies, more women die during pregnancy and childbirth.
In the Philippines, 14 percent of pregnant women do not get regular check-ups and other necessary medical care; one in 10 women do not give birth in health facilities or receive assistance from skilled healthcare personnel during childbirth, the agency added… Read More
(The Manila Times) Filipino jins are shining in the 32nd Southeast Asian Games, nabbing huge victories for the Philippines in the taekwondo contests in Cambodia.
Kurt Barbosa, Arven Alcanta and Samuel Morrison won their respective final matches to win gold medals in the men’s kyorugi event.
Kirste Elaine Alora also added to the gold rush, fighting her way to a thrilling finish in the women’s 73kgs.
Barbosa started the gold rush for Philippine taekwondo by defeating Thailand’s Ramnarong Sawekwiharee in the men’s 54kg class.
It was his third career gold medal in the sport that was hosted at the Chroy Changvar Convention Center.
Arven Alcantara added to the medal haul by ruling the 68kg class.
Taekwondo veteran Samuel Morrison also got himself a gold by dominating Indonesia’s Nicholas Armanto in the men’s 87kg final.
Morrison is now a four-time SEA Games gold medalist.
Alora, last year’s silver medalist, engaged Vietnam’s Thi Huong Nguyen in a tight match before pulling off a victory in the end… Read More
(Reuters) A Filipino priest is touring top European banks to demand they curtail ties with companies behind new fossil fuel projects in a region of his home country that is rich in fish and coral. But he is leaving his meetings with bankers feeling frustrated.
The priest, Edwin Gariguez, and the environmentalists accompanying him are just the latest activists from around the globe to make a case in person to banks that they should be bolder in cutting off financing for polluting industries.
Gariguez and his colleagues are calling on banks – including Standard Chartered STAN.L, Barclays BARC.L, Deutsche Bank DBKGn.DE and UBS UBSG.S – to stop lending, underwriting and investing in Shell SHEL.L and the conglomerate San Miguel SMC.PS. Both are behind new and planned liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals in the so-called Verde Island Passage – a region he calls the “Amazon of the oceans”.
Many big banks have been marketing themselves as lenders that firms can turn to as they transition to a greener future, a strategy they view as also key to boosting profits. The lenders have favoured a gradual approach, tightening their policies on financing the coal industry but slower to clamp down on oil and gas financing in a disappointment to activists… Read More
