MANILA – “Bayan Ko” singer Freddie Aguilar has clarified his controversial remark that drew flak from fellow singers Arnel Pineda and Gary Valenciano.
“Hindi ako nagsasabi ng monkey. Ang sabi ko kaya tayo binabansagan, [tayong] mga Filipino, [na] unggoy dahil manggagaya tayo,” Aguilar said in a taped interview aired on “The Buzz” Sunday.
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MANILA – Hunk actors Piolo Pascual and Dingdong Dantes are collaborating together to make a new comedy-romantic movie. Pascual is co-producing “Kimmy Dora” while Dantes is playing one of the main characters in the film.
Dantes is the leading man of comedienne Eugene Domingo, who is the main character in the movie. Joyce Bernal, meanwhile, is directing it.
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MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Friday afternoon finally sealed the poll automation deal with winning consortium Smartmatic Corp.-Total Information Management (TIM) notwithstanding a petition for the Supreme Court to bar the signing of the P7.2-billion contract.
The signing of the contract will start the preparations for the first and historic automation program for the Philipp
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MANILA, Philippines – The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) yesterday granted approval in principle for the proposed $1-billion global bonds issue by the government, paving the way for finance officials to finalize the terms of the cash-raising exercise.
The Monetary Board of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) approved the proposed issue in principle with the final approval pending the finalization of the te
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MANILA, Philippines – Ginebra coach Jong Uichico believed his San Miguel counterpart Siot Tanquingcen was playing “mind game” on league officials and referees when he hit the officiating despite coming out triumphant in Game Four of the Motolite PBA Fiesta Conference that leveled their best-of-seven series Sunday.
Uichico said Tanquingcen could be employing a psy-war tactic for an added boost for his Bee
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MANILA – The Philippines dominated the first day of the Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II semifinal tie as its netters, Treat Huey and Cecil Mamiit, posted wins over their Pakistani opponents in straight sets.
“I’m happy with their performance,” RP Davis Cup coach Chris Cuarto told abs-cbnNEWS.com. The Philippines, currently with a 2-0 advantage over Pakistan, is just one victory away from reaching the
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MANILA, Philippines – After its soft debut at No. 6 last Monday, July 6, GMA’s newest primetime series Rosalinda, starring Carla Abellana and Geoff Eigenmann, is beginning to show what it is truly capable of: dominating the ratings game.
From its debut performance of 26.3 percent, Rosalinda generated a 28.9 percent rating the next two nights – July 7 (Tuesday) and July 8 (Wednesday) – to move to third
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MANILA – Australian beauty queen and former actress Michelle Van Eimeren has asked her ex-husband Ogie Alcasid and his girlfriend Regine Velasquez to sing at her upcoming wedding. Velasquez, hailed as "Asia’s songbird" said it was Alcasid who told her about the wedding invitation.
Reports said that Van Eimeren is set to wed Australian fiance Mark Murrow before the end of the year.
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MANILA – Tacloban City councilor and actress Christina "Kring-Kring" Gonzales-Romualdez confirmed that one of the country’s seasoned leading men, Richard Gomez, will run for congressman in Ormoc, Leyte in next year’s polls.
In an interview, Romualdez said that Gomez already announced his plan to run but she did not know which district the actor is eyeing.
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MANILA, Philippines – President Arroyo has activated a 24-hour command center of the Anti-Terrorism Council (ATC) even as officials maintain that Metro Manila is in no immediate danger of being attacked by extremists.
Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita, who chairs the ATC, has been designated the official spokesperson on the current national security situation.
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Manny Pacquiao: Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao (IPA: /'pækjaʊ/; born December 17, 1978), known as Manny "Pac-Man" Pacquiao is a professional Filipino boxer. He is the former WBC li...
