Leading mobile services provider Smart Communications, Inc. is bringing Filipino fans closer to their favorite Korean superstars through Smart Hallyu Hangouts, a series of online shows where subscribers can watch their idols. Smart Hallyu Hangouts pilots on July 16 with multi-awarded Korean actress and Smart Signature endorser Son Ye Jin while Hyun Bin takes on the Smart Hallyu Hangouts stage on July 31. It’s the closest thing fans can get to a physical fan meet during the pandemic, where they get a chance to virtually watch Son Ye Jin through a live feed from South Korea. “I may not be…
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Love in all its forms will give viewers a message of hope as “MMK” presents new episodes starring Iza Calzado, Heaven Peralejo, and Zaijian Jaranilla this July. Opening the month is the story of Andy (Zaijian Jaranilla) who takes up a Nursing course in the hopes of giving his family a better life—until his mother dies of chronic kidney disease. Not long after his mother’s demise, his older siblings develop the same illness. Watch as he and his father Abe (Nonie Buencamino) do their best to live and fight in a two-part special starting this July 3. This July 17,…
After becoming a household name for her award-winning role in the movie “Fan Girl,” Charlie Dizon is playing another fearless character in her latest project – a hopeless romantic searching for true love, even if it kills her. Charlie refuses to let a deadly illness hold her back as she unexpectedly falls in love for the first time with Jameson Blake in the iWantTFC original series ”My Sunset Girl,” which streams worldwide this July 14. Here, Charlie plays Ciara, a free-spirited young lady who defies her circumstances in pursuit of love and happiness. She suffers from xeroderma pigmentosum, an illness…
The ABS-CBN Foundation, in partnership with Zarah Juan, launched the limited edition Aduyon Sling, the product of a dynamic collaboration for the benefit of the Weaving Arts and Crafts of Tublay (WACoT). All profit from the sale of this special collection will be ploughed back to WACoT. WACoT is a duly registered organization with the Department of Labor and Employment of 25 women weavers. Zarah Juan, a social and cultural enterprise that supports community-based social enterprises (CBSEs) all over the country, specially designed the Aduyon Sling using the products from the weavers of Tublay. This partnership between ABS-CBN Foundation and…
After tracing a million steps for contact tracing last year, Singapore-based AI solutions firm SQREEM Technologies has launched a new COVID-19 tracking tool to aid in the battle against the virus – a real time system that tracks live COVID-19 data, including available hospital beds and ventilators by zip code. Named “Data Natin,” meaning our data in Tagalog, the AI-powered tool is now being used in the Philippines, where COVID-19 cases have reached an all-time high. The country currently has one of the highest numbers of cases in Southeast Asia. Named as one of Asia’s fastest-growing companies by the Financial…
MANILA, July 5, 2021– How much would you pay to be happy? Some may think that material sources of happiness come with a high price, but not with Jollibee! The country’s #1 fast food chain launched the second instalment of its three-part JolliSavers commercial series, asserting its stance of bringing joy to us all at an affordable price through its sulit-sarap bestsellers. The clip opens with “Wil” trying on a nice jacket in a department store, only to find out its mind-blowing price. He then starts sprouting out sarcastic rationales for its seemingly unreasonable value, including perhaps suddenly looking like…
MANILA, PHILIPPINES, JULY 2, 2021 — Carlo Francisco Manatad’s first feature film “Kun Maupay Man It Panahon (Whether the Weather is Fine)” is part of the official selection of the 74th Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland, where it will have its world premiere in the Concorso Cineasti del Presente (Filmmakers of the Present) section. “Kun Maupay Man It Panahon” is the only competing film from the Philippines this year in Locarno, an A-List international film festival that provides a platform for auteur cinema. The Cineasti del Presente section for first or second feature films by emerging global talents will bestow…
DVBBS team up with fellow Canadian and alternative sensation Powfu for their new track “Losing Sleep,” which sees the duo experimenting with a masterful blend of alt-punk and electronic music. Opening with mellow instrumental melodies, Powfu’s heartfelt vocals shine through as “Losing Sleep” laments on a lost lover. DVBBS’s influence comes in soft basslines during the culmination of the track, which is guaranteed to pull at any listener’s heartstrings. “’Losing Sleep’ is the definition of fresh, we’re excited to share this one.” – DVBBS Powfu has been riding the wave of his TikTok popularity from “death bed (coffee for your…
Kapamilya fans took to social media to pledge their love and support for ABS-CBN as the hashtag #KapamilyaForever clinched the top 1 spot on the list of trending topics on Twitter Philippines and also entered Twitter’s worldwide trends yesterday (July 1). Fans on Twitter said their support for ABS-CBN will never waver and that they will patiently wait for its big comeback on free TV. The sentiments of fans were aptly captured by the tweet of user @iamgino_galadam who said, “we had you at your best and we’ll stay at your worst, @abscbn. #KapamilyaForever.” Netizens also lauded ABS-CBN for giving…
Another aspiring Kapamilya celebrity is set to make hearts swoon as ABS-CBN Star Hunt and Star Magic search for the next Kapamilya celebrity with the boy-next-door charm in the new edition of their online star search, “Bida Star: Boy Next Door.” Last June 30 (Wednesday), viewers got a glimpse of the 50 hopefuls who have successfully passed the auditions on kumu and who will bring their A-game to become the next artist of ABS-CBN in the coming weeks on the Facebook page and YouTube channel of Star Hunt from Tuesday to Friday, 6pm. Meanwhile get to know the contestants better…