Kenneth Cobonpue being honored at The Pratt Institute (Source: Instagram of Kenneth Cobonpue)
Renowned Filipino furniture designer Kenneth Cobonpue has been honored with the Pratt Legends award in New York.The Pratt Institute ranks among the top 10 art and design schools globally. Kenneth achieved summa cum laude honors upon graduating from Pratt in 1991 (See ABS-CBN for story).
Jo Koy (Source: Facebook/Jo Koy)
Comedian Jo Koy has been selected to host 81st annual Golden Globes. The decision was announced on the Globes website on Thursday morning. Koy is a standup comedian and actor who in the past was a panelist on “Chelsea Lately” and has also had comedy specials that aired on Comedy Central and Netflix. (See CNN for story).
American Airlines (AA) has entered a new codeshare partnership with Philippine Airlines (PAL), offering seamless connections between the Philippines and the United States. The new codeshare covers AA’s routes to Los Angeles from seven US cities – Atlanta, Denver, Houston, Las Vegas, Miami, Orlando and Washington, D.C. (See Inquirer.net for story).
Fans at Super Manila Event (Source: ABS-CBN | Photo by Jeck Battalones)
Comics enthusiasts nationwide united at Circuit Makati for the Super Manila Event, a convention featuring acclaimed local artists who have made their mark doing covers for Marvel and DC Comics. Super Manila Event, hosted by Next Comic Art and Filbar’s, returned after a hiatus due to the pandemic (See ABS-CBN News for story).
President Marcos, Jr. meets with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (Source: Philstar | Photo by Yummie Dingding)
President Marcos, Jr. and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida agreed to push for the early completion of talks for the planned Reciprocal Access Agreement and to strengthen their coast guards in the face of China’s increasingly aggressive maneuvers in the South China Sea (See Philstar.com for story).
The Missionaries of Charity (Source: wikipedia)
A 63-year-old Filipina nun, Sister Elisabeth Ann of the Missionaries of Charity founded by Mother Teresa of Calcutta, has refused to leave the 54 persons with disabilities under the sisters’ care and are now homeless “and without access to the respirators,” despite continued Israeli bombing of Gaza (See Rappler for story).
Filipino Efren Esmilla (center) (Photo from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia)
Pope Francis has appointed Filipino bishop Efren Esmilla among two others for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) reported on Saturday (See MSN.com for story).
Aklan’s art of weaving textile is getting the spotlight it deserves as it is now inscribed on the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)'s Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity list, marking the first intangible cultural heritage from the Visayas region to be listed (See MB.Com.Ph for story).
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