Chevening Fellowship prestigious award has been given to four filipino professionals namely:

1. Michael Joseph Juan – Associate Director of AIM-Team Energy Center for Bridging Societal Divides

2. Atty. Flor Ofilada – Strategy Management Officer of the Philippine Stock Exchange Corporate Governance Office

3. Norgianna Suleik – Strategic Relations Manager of Nonviolent Peaceforce

4. Wilfredo Torres – Program Officer of The Asia Foundation’s programs on Conflict Management in the Philippines and Rapid Response.

MANILA, Philippines – Four Filipino professionals were among the selected individuals to be awarded with the prestigious Chevening Fellowship by the British …

Rubilen “Bingkay” Amit ranked number 10 in the world’s best cue artist according to the latest World Pool Billiard Association rankings. Bingkay is one of the top players of Mr. Aristeo Puyat, a sportsman-businessman, of Puyat Sports. She tied with Fu Xiaofang of China on the 10th place.
“Masayang-masaya po ako kasi nagbunga na ang lahat ng sakripisyo at paghihirap ko po,” said the former Makati call center employee, who gave up her work to focus on billiard.
“Salamat po sa family ko, kay Sir Putch (Puyat) at coach Boyet (Asonto), hindi …

M,asters in billiards Efren “Bata” Reyes and Franciscon “Django” Bustamante made it to the semifinal round of the 2009 PartyCasino.net World Cup of Pool by Team England at the SM Edsa on Saturday. Reyes and Bustamante of Team B won over England’s Imran Majid and World 10-Ball Champion Darren Appleton with the score of 9 to 1 in their quarterfinals matchup.
The two legends’ next match will be Chinese Li Hewen and Fu Jianbo.
Reyes and Bustamante were the 2006 World Cup champs while Li and Fu were the title holders …

The new pride of the Philippines, 19 year-old Marvin Sonsona won over Jose Lopez of Puerto Rico, this Friday (Saturday in Manila). He won the World Boxing Organization (WBO) super flyweight title at the Casino Rama in Ontario, Canada. The scores were 116-109, 115-110, 114-111, all in favor of Sonsona.
“Lopez was such a tough fighter, and winning a decision against him shows that I’m a real fighter, and a worthy champion,” the hard-punching Sonsona said shortly after winning the fight.

Sonsona, is also from General Santos City just like boxing icon …

The Philippine team won a total of 74 medals in the recently held ASEAN Para Games which was held in Malaysia from August 15-19. This ASEAN Para Games is known as the parallel sports event for the disabled. This event is being held after every SEA games or Southeast Asian Games.
The Philippine team had a total of 24 gold, 24 silver medals and 26 bronze. The medals were won the the chess, swimming, athletics and other events.
Thailand is the leader in the standing with the total of 157 gold medals, …

Congratulations to Rhap Salazar and Kimverlie Molina for winning in the 13th World Championships of Performing Arts (WCOPA) which was held in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Rhap Salazar of ABS-CBN’s “Little Big Star’s Brightest Star” won the Junior Grand Champion Performer of the World and the 2009 Grand Champion Junior Vocalist of the World titles. Rhap won gold medals after competing in five categories junior division namely vocal, Broadway, vocal gospel, vocal open, vocal pop, and vocal R&B/soul/jazz.
Kimverlie Diaz on the other hand, 18 year old daughter of an expatriate …

The World Dragon Boat Race Championships will be held in Czech Republic this coming August and the good news is the Philippine national men’s dragon boat team is going to join this championship to defend their title.
They are having hard time raising fund for their trip to Czech Republic because according to them they need Php 150, 000 for each member of the team. They have to send at least 23 members there. Good thing the Philippine Sports Commission chairman Harry Angping said that they will be providing the …

The World Women’s 10-Ball Championship has been announced and I feel great to announced that a Filipina by the name of Rubilen Amit won the contest. She defeated two-time world champion Liu Shin-mei of Chinese Taipei. She is a 27 year old girl from Mandaue. Amit defeated 48 cue women player . Amit is now considered the cheering crowd is her plus point in winning the said event.

“I’m very happy that, finally, I realized my dream of becoming a world champion,” Amit said. She added, “I offer this victory …

I would like to congratulate Mr Brillante Dante Mendoza for being the Best Director for his film ” Kinatay ” , In an interview released in French Newspaper Quentin Tarantino ,
says that the Filipino Director is a great director.
Dante is the first ever Filipino Director to won Cannes Film Festival, The lead actor on his movie ” kinatay ” is Coco Martin,
“First of all I would like to thank the selection committee, who are responsible for bringing my films here for the past three years. And now with an award …

A Filipino talent that we can be proud of, Jal Joshua Lebumfacil. Jal Joshua won second prize in the Grand Finals of the Australia’s God Talent 2009.
Jal Joshua is a 12 years old who showed Australia how good Filipinos are in singing! Jal Joshua sang “You’ll Never Walk Alone” in Australia’s Got Talent SemiFinal 2009. He won 2nd place in the final round. To know more about him, you can watch the video below. Mark Vincent won first in the said contest. They are both amazing.