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Kathleen Paton from Aklan, Phillippines wins Miss Eco International 2022, held in Egypt on Thursday. [embed]https://www.instagram.com/p/CbOTGUDMwhB/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link[/embed] The Aklanon beauty queen competed with 40 other candidates from around the globe. She won the Best Eco Video, which made her...

March 18, 2022
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The Philippines bet to 70th Miss World, Tracy Maureen Perez of Cebu, secured a Top 40 spot and will compete in the finals this Mar. 16 in Puerto Rico, after the announcement, was made by the Miss World Organization. [embed]https://www.instagram.com/p/CY_q7dxjtTf/[/embed] The coronation was supposed to be held in December but was postponed to ...

January 22, 2022
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Beatrice Luigi Gomes, 26, Philippines’ delegate to the 70th Miss Universe competition held in Eliat, Israel on Dec. 13, brought back the Philippines into the Top 5, years after Catriona Gray won in 2018. [embed]https://www.instagram.com/p/CXN75TbBdTl/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link[/embed] The incredible performance of the Cebuana beauty queen...

December 14, 2021
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Maureen Montange, 28, who represented the Philippines in the Miss Globe 2021 pageant held at Tirana, Albania, bagged the coveted crown on Saturday. Montange is the second Filipina to wear the Miss Globe crown after the Philippines won it in 2015. She hails from Batangas. [embed]https://www.instagram.com/p/CV6jGZtjpbl/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_l...

November 6, 2021
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Cindy Faye Obeñita, a 25-year-old Tourism Officer from Cagayan de Oro, Philippines was crowned Miss Intercontinental 2021 in Egypt on Saturday.  She bested over 70 ladies from around the world and was the second Filipina to wear the Miss Intercontinental crown after Karen Gallman who won in 2018.

October 30, 2021
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Weightlifter Hidilyn Francisco Diaz made history on Monday as the Philippines’ first athlete to win gold at the Olympics.

Diaz clinched the top spot in the women’s 55kg weightlifting category at the Tokyo 2020 games, besting world champion Liao Qiuyun from China and setting an Olympic record for hoisting 224kg....

July 26, 2021
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Pharmaceutical company Moderna on Monday claimed the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) it manufactured was 95% effective, based on interim data from a late-stage trial. The US biotech company made the announcement a week after Pfizer Inc's reported that it’s vaccine was a...

November 18, 2020
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American pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc. promised it will provide the supply of COVID-19 vaccines to the Philippines once approved for distribution, Philippine Ambassador to the United States Jose Manel “Babe” Romualdez said Monday. This came after Pfizer, one of the world’s premier biopharmaceutical comp...

November 12, 2020
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Joseph R. Biden of the Democratic Party has won the U.S. presidential election, according to projections made by American media in the wee hours of Sunday morning.

Despite a razor-thin margin of votes with Republican incumbent Donald J. Trump, Biden had flipped the results in his favour in his childhood state of P...

November 8, 2020