Senator Loren Legarda invites everyone to join the lecture and weaving demonstrations featuring Ifugao’s sacred textiles on November 3 and 4, 2016 at the Manlilikha ng Bayan Hall, 3rd Floor, National Museum of Anthropology, Manila.
“I invite everyone to the lecture and weaving demonstrations at the National Museum. Ifugao weavers will show their unique and intricate weaving processes. This is a good opportunity for people to learn about Ifugao’s sacred textiles,” the Senator said.
The pursuit of happiness makes one unhappy, because happiness exists not in tangible measurements, but in serving others, living with one’s values and honoring the role of nature in daily life.
Dr. Saamdu Chetri, executive director of Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness (GNH) Center, recently talked to Filipino policy-makers and noted that countries consider economic indicators like gross national product (GNP) and gross domestic product (GDP) as yardsticks of development.
Bhutan, one of the least developed countries in the world, shrugs off these […]
I’ve been to mammoth meetings before — the Modern Languages Association in Chicago, MacWorld in San Francisco, Comic-Con in San Diego, for instance — but nothing comes close to the Frankfurt Book Fair in size and scope. Covering over 10 hectares of exhibition space spread out over several buildings and many floors, it’s certainly the world’s biggest and best-known book fair, gathering participants from nearly 200 countries.
Senator Loren Legarda today commended the country’s consistent high ranking in the World Economic Forum (WEF)’s Global Gender Gap Report.
The WEF’s Global Gender Gap Report 2016 showed the Philippines closing nearly 79 percent of its gender gap, ranking first in Asia and seventh worldwide among 144 countries.
The Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF, or Buchmesse) is behind us now, having ended six days ago. But what a specially significant event this year’s participation of the Philippines was, only the second consecutive year that its publishing industry managed to do so.
