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First Filipino entry in "Woodstock of short films"
Entertainment/Movies
Ambulancia"Ambulancia," a short film written, directed, and produced by Richard Legaspi, will compete and have its German premiere at the 32nd Open-Air Film Festival Weiterstadt, which will take place from August 14 to 18 on the arcadian site of the Braunshardter Taennchen.

Filmfest Weiterstadt, also known as the "Woodstock of short films," received more than 1,600 submissions worldwide and the festival committee selected only 195 films this year.

Since 1977, the festival, which is one of the oldest "open air" events of its nature in Germany, is "beyond comparison for its dedication to screen films in diverse genres in an immense program."
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The Local Film Festival Circuit
Entertainment/Movies
Film festivals celebrate both local and international films of various genres for the diverse Filipino audience. Some of the most noted film festivals that cinephiles, students, and even the general viewers and future film enthusiasts could check out the whole year round include:

Cinemanila International Film Festival

Cinemanila is an annual film festival focusing on the cinema of the Philippines as well as Southeast Asian cinema. Among the world community of film festivals, it has gained respectability with its programming of independent Asian films and its diverse programming of great films all over the world. It also features a number of film-related events to further enhance filmmaking as a craft.
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Who doesn’t want a satisfying sex life?
Health/Health News
Who, really? Certainly not I, Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile or Sen. Pia Cayetano. I asked Senate reporters who among them do not want a satisfying sex life and nobody answered. On second thought, should this be asked at all?

This issue cropped up Monday during the discussion of reproductive health bills at the Senate Committee on Health when former Sen. Kit Tatad said the bills are encouraging “satisfying sex life instead of a mutually fulfilling conjugal life and ultimately change time-honored Filipino values about human life, family life, marriage in favor of the most destructive counter-values that are wreaking havoc on the morals of many consumerist societies.”

He explained that when one engages in sex, it should not be for the purpose of satisfying oneself but with the knowledge that it should lead to the creation of life, not prevent it.
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Scientists urge passage of health research bill
Health/Health News
A group of government health experts have appealed to Congress to immediately pass the Philippine National Health Research System (PNHRS)Act, citing the direct correlation between investments in research and a country's health status, progress and productivity.”

Dr. Jaime C. Montoya, executive director of the Philippine Council for Health Research Development (PCHRD) of the Department of Science and Technology, said two percent of the national budget for health should be allocated to research, as mandated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

However, in the Philippines, only 0.1 to 0.3 percent of the health budget is devoted to health research and development, Montoya said during the weekly Health Forum in Quezon City.
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Philip Morris International Caught in Philippines in Another Concert Sponsorship
Health/Health News

For the second time in recent weeks, international tobacco control advocates are calling on Philip Morris International to withdraw its sponsorship and promotion of a major concert, this time in the Philippines where the company's activities appear to violate national law.

Last month, Philip Morris International withdrew its sponsorship of singer Alicia Keys' concert in Jakarta, Indonesia, after the company was criticized for engaging in cigarette marketing that appealed to children and after Ms. Keys called for the sponsorship to be withdrawn.

Now health advocates are urging Philip Morris International to end its involvement in an August 30 reunion concert by the popular Filipino band Eraserheads, which has been called the "Beatles of the Philippines." Those seeking tickets to the concert are being directed to www.marlboro.ph, a web site run by Philip Morris International's Philippine subsidiary. To receive tickets and information, visitors to the web site must provide personal contact information that would allow Philip Morris International to send them promotional materials for cigarettes.

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