Several Filipino seamstresses and tailors will personalize textile products at IKEA's Philippine branch once it opens under the Swedish furniture-maker's partnership with local firm Rags2Riches, IKEA announced (See ABS-CBN for story).
Christian Andrei Nuez Laplap
Christian Andrei Nuez Laplap of the University of the Philippines Cebu was one of the awardees chosen under the Editors’ Choice category in the 2020 Hammond House International Literary Prize from the University Centre Grimsby in the United Kingdom (See Sunstar for story).
Louise Mabulo (left) and Josefa Tauli
Two young Filipinas, farmer-entrepreneur Louise Mabulo and youth advocate Josefa Tauli, made it to the prestigious 2020 Young Explorer program of the National Geographic Society (See ABS-CBN for story).
Visayas State University is humbled to obtain another international recognition with the official release of the University Performance Metrics (UPM) for 2021 results (See VSU.edu for story).
Despite mass layoffs worldwide, repatriations, and lockdowns, remittances of overseas Filipinos (OFs) fell by only 0.8% in 2020, as workers found ways to send home much-needed funds to help support struggling loved ones in the Philippines (See Rappler for story)..
World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen (left) and U.S. Chess Champion Wesley So at the Open Euro Rapid.
U.S. Chess Champion Wesley So won the Open Euro Rapid, beating World Champion Magnus Carlsen 2.5-1.5 in the second set to take the mini-match 1.5-0.5, (See Inquirer.net for story).
Filipinos are the most disapproving of their government’s COVID-19 pandemic response in Southeast Asia, a survey revealed. In a survey conducted by Singapore-based ASEAN Studies Centre, 53.7 percent of its Philippine respondents were not in favor of the Duterte administration’s response to the ongoing health crisis (See MSN.Com for story).
H.E.R. (Photo by Sthanlee Mirador)
Fil-Am singer-songwriter, H.E.R. (aka Gabriella Sarmiento Wilson) got her first Golden Globe nomination for her song “Fight For You” for the movie, “Judas and the Black Messiah” in the “Best Original Song – Motion Picture” category (See GMANetwork for story).
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