June 4, 2015
Sen.Loren Legarda calls on disaster management agencies and local government units to prepare for the Big One.
The United Nations Champion for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation for Asia-Pacific, issued the statement following the launch of the Phivolcs’ Valley Fault System Atlas, a handbook containing detailed and updated map of areas traversed by two major faults in the Greater Metro Manila Area — the East Valley Fault and West Valley Fault.
“We have to use the information in […]
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June 4, 2015
MANILA, Philippines – The Filipino film “Taklub” is the opening film for the 20th year of the French Film Festival here in the Philippines.
Present at the opening night on Wednesday is the star of the film Nora Aunor, the film’s director Brillante Mendoza and the film’s producer Senator Loren Legarda.
French Ambassador to the Philippines Gilles Garachon said that the film “Taklub” was chosen to be screened for the festival’s opening since “we want to celebrate also Philippine cinema because we […]
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June 4, 2015
Senator Loren Legarda today reiterated her call for the protection of the Ifugao Rice Terraces following reports about the threats of deterioration brought by unmanaged development in the area.
“The Ifugao Rice Terraces have already been removed from UNESCO’s list of World Heritage in danger in 2012, but today unmanaged development continues to threaten this Eighth Wonder of the World,” said Legarda.
The Ifugao Rice Terraces were inscribed in the World Heritage List in 1995 by the UNESCO. The rice terraces were […]
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June 4, 2015
Following reports of deterioration as posed by threats of modernization, the once famed Ifugao Rice Terraces may be saved from total degradation if the public would realize its role as caretaker of the world heritage site, Senator Loren Legarda said.
Legarda, chair of the Senate committee on environment and natural resources, expressed alarm over the Agence France-Presse (AFP) report which said that “relentless forces of modernity” and “unregulated development” had been causing damage to the 2,000-year old stepped paddy fields.
“One of […]
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June 3, 2015
If you ask Gilles Garachon, France’s ambassador to the Philippines, Filipino filmmaker Brillante Ma. Mendoza’s “Taklub” should have topped the Un Certain Regard section of the recently concluded Cannes Film Festival.
“It deserved to win,” Garachon told the local media during the press conference for the 20th French Film Festival in Manila.
He hailed the Filipino film’s message as timely. “Taklub” tells the intersecting stories of three survivors of Supertyphoon “Yolanda,” which claimed thousands of lives in Western Visayas in 2013. “Taklub” […]
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