THE much-awaited episode of Oprah Winfrey’s television program with our very own Charice Pempengco as one of the special guests will finally air in the US on Monday, May 12.
Charice shares the stage with other gifted children, including, seven-year-old ballroom dancers, an eight-year-old guitarist, a three-year-old drummer, a seven-year-old pianist, a 10-year-old who plays the [...]
Charice Pempengco on Oprah TV show airs May 12
Filipinos rule Boracay Dragon Boat Festival
ILOILO CITY—Rowers from the Philippines ruled four of the six events in the recent Fila 2nd Boracay International Dragon Boat Festival at the world-famous island-resort.
Tribu Cam Sur topped the men’s event and mixed race over 300 meters, the Bugsay Boracay team ruled the women’s race, and the Philippine National Police Patriots dominated the mixed race [...]
Filipina popstar Chelsea E.
It has become a necessary strategy nowadays for artists to take charge of their musical careers head on, and launch their albums independently. Chelsea is no stranger to that method.
Having started her professional recording career in an all female music group called SX4, Chelsea has been working in the competitive world known as the music [...]
Filipina named head of global open source project
MANILA, Philippines–A soft-spoken Filipina in her early twenties was recently named project leader of one of many open source community projects run by the Apache Software Foundation.
Maria Odea “Deng” Ching, 25, became the first Filipino vice president and project management committee chairperson of the Apache Archiva Project of the foundation, a non-profit organization that supports [...]
Castro, Tuloy na sa NBL
HANDA na si two-time Philippine Basketball League MVP Jason Castro na dalhin ang pangalan ng Pilipinas sa kanyang pagsabak sa Singapore Slingers sa National Basketball League (NBL) na sisimulan ang bagong season sa September.
Si Castro, na inihatid ang Harbour Centre sa apat na PBL titles, ang unang Filipino cager na magpapakitang-gilas sa NBL makaraang pumirma [...]
Record-breaking Pinoy is World Sport Stacking champ
A US-based Filipino child has won this year’s WSSA World Sport Stacking Championships held earlier this month in Denver, Colorado. The new champ also posted new records for two events.
In an interview on ABS-CBN’s morning show “Umagang Kay Ganda,” Marivic Purugganan, the mother of 10-year-old Steven Purugganan of Longmeadow, Massachussetts, said her son earned the [...]
Pinay Madonna in UK
THE E-MAIL WAS SIGNED simply: Mado.
That’s the nickname of Madonna Decena, the Filipina singer who impressed audience and judges alike in the reality contest “Britain’s Got Talent (BGT).”
She passed the first round with flying colors and has moved on to the semi-finals.
Since uploading on YouTube on April 19, the video of her performance on BGT [...]
Charlie Green sings his way to Britain’s heart
Charlie Green, a ten-year old half-Filipino, sang his way to the next round of Britain’s Got Talent, a talent search created by American Idol judge Simon Cowell who also acts as judge in the show, alongside journalist Piers Morgan and actress Amanda Holdren.
During the program’s second week of live auditions in Birmingham, Charlie gave a [...]
