Have you seen today’s Google Doodle of a female athlete on the main page of the search engine? It’s truly a one-proud Filipino moment in the entire history!     Screenshot from Google.com   The woman on the doodle is Filipino-American Victoria ‘Vicki’ Manalo-Draves, who won gold medals in the 3-meter springboard and 10-meter platform events in the 1948 London Olympics. Today, 72 years ago, Draves' monumental win has celebrated by Google in honor of her remarkable feat in the Olympic history of the diving category. Draves was born Victoria Manalo in San Francisco's South of Market District on Dec....

It seems like Duterte’s late-night announcement has shaken us all with regards to his statements. In his address, the President himself has granted the medical frontliners’ plea for a ‘breathing space’ as they have been overwhelmed by the surge of cases in the past weeks.     The Philippine Medical Association (PMA) request did not fall on deaf ears, but not to what exactly they have proposed—to go back to ECQ status to control strategies and addressing the urgent health sector problems—as the chief executive just decided to place Metro Manila and nearby provinces under modified enhanced community quarantine instead....

Vice President Leni Robredo’s speech was truly a mood for COVID-19 response! Two days after President Duterte’s State of the Nation Address, Philippine's second-highest official has delivered his speech suggesting her detailed plans to fight the pandemic in the country.     On July 29, at 4:39 p.m., she shared her coping measures and message of hope to Filipinos through her official Facebook page with a transcript written in our very own national Language. In her opening speech, she straightforwardly cited some of the drastic effects of the pandemic to the people due to the consistent increase in the number...

Yes! You read it, right peeps, the internet will be having its patron saint in the person of an Italian millennial named Carlo Acutis. The Vatican is on the run to achieve the sainthood for Acutis as it implies a great act in the modern-day world.      Carlo Acutis who have died in 2006 due to leukemia was credited by the Vatican with the miraculous healing of a 6-year-old Brazilian boy who inexplicably recovered in 2013 from a congenital deformation of the pancreas, the Los Angeles Times reported. On the boy’s behalf, a priest prayed to Carlo for the...

Heads up K-drama and K-pop stans, you can now learn to say more than just “annyeong” in this free online Korean language class! On July 28, The Korean Cultural Center in the Philippines (KCC PH) announced that they will be launching free online Korean language classes for “those who have little to no background in the Korean language”.     A pilot run of the course will be opening for beginners starting this August 2020 with limited slots for 30 students only. Classes will then be held in 10 consecutive weeks until October, every Thursdays, and Fridays, from 9 am...