It’s an hour and a half before the event and David Medalla, the internationally-acclaimed Filipino artist slated to grace the Palazzo Mora for a performance titled “Pangarap sa Panglao,” is nowhere to be found. Adam Nankervis, artist and longtime Medalla collaborator, has called to say he lost Medalla on the walk to the Palazzo and that the 77-year-old artist is in physical pain. “It’s his back,” Nankervis tells me later. “He never lets on but I know him and I […]
Globally renowned Filipino artist David Medalla’s performance at the Philippine Pavilion on August 20 was an ode to his country and the traditions he grew up with, a saga that starts from his memories as a child before the Japanese-American war that ravaged his hometown of Mabini in Ermita, Manila.
The seminal artist known for being a pioneer of kinetic and participatory art said that performance art cannot be explained in its entirety. “If I tell you, then what’s the point […]
Philippine eagles are critically endangered animals and it is unlawful for anyone to take the life of endangered species.
Senator Loren Legarda stressed this point as she condemned the recent killing of a Philippine eagle named “Pamana” that was found dead in Mount Hamiguitan Range, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Davao Oriental.
Pamana was found dead on August 16 with a gunshot wound in the chest. The Philippine eagle is considered as one of the biggest, rarest and most powerful […]
The heavy rains hitting Metro Manila almost every week has exposed anew a dirty habit of many Filipinos: the indiscriminate throwing plastic trash that lead to clogged drainage systems and pollution of marine environment.
At about this time year after year, the problem of flooding keeps coming back even as many realize that the perennial dilemma is also indicative of an aberration in our society: an undisciplined lot whose apathy is the primary cause of clogged waterways and, on the other […]
AN ACT REQUIRING THE REGISTRATION OF ALL USERS OF PRE-PAID SUBSCRIBER IDENTITY MODULE (SIM) CARDS
Scope: National
Legislative status: Pending in the Committee (8/25/2015)
http://senate.gov.ph/lis/bill_res.aspx?congress=16&q=SBN-2911
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SBN-2911 (as filed)
