Bacolod Masskara Festival 2008 and Charter Day Organizing body formed
Posted on July 5, 2008 - Filed Under Festivals, News | Leave a Comment
Mayor Evelio Leonardia recently signed an executive order creating an organizing committee for the 70th Charter Day Anniversary on October 19, a City Hall press release said.
The celebration is very special and significant, and the holding of the 29th MassKara Festival is a prelude to an anticipated grand occasion when the festival becomes 30 years [...]
Tacloban Leyte Sangyaw Festival 2008 list of winners
Posted on June 30, 2008 - Filed Under Events, Festivals, News | 16 Comments
The newly-revived Sangyaw Festival of Tacloban City is fnally over and I’m now back here in Manila. The results are in, but I honestly doubt the scorecards. I am not sure if it’s just me or the other also noted something, too. This year’s Sangyaw Festival Champion is Tribu Kabatok of Tacloban City.
Trivu Kabatok, [...]
Read More..>>Tacloban Leyte Pintados Kasadyaan Festival 2008 Streetdance results and winners
Posted on June 28, 2008 - Filed Under Events, Festivals, News | 6 Comments
The Leyte Pintados Kasadyaan Festival Competition is finally over. The Pintados Kasadyaan Streetdance contest is organized by the Province of Leyte. The Pintados festival’s highlight is the streetdance competition of all the festivals from all over Leyte Samar and Biliran. This year 19 festivals participated in this annual colorful extravaganza. This year, the town of [...]
Read More..>>Grand and Majestic celebration of Sangyaw Festival set June 29
Posted on June 27, 2008 - Filed Under Events, Festivals, News | 1 Comment
TACLOBAN CITY- A grand and majestic celebration of the Sangyaw Festival this coming June 29 is guaranteed as 11 major cities plus two big municipalities outside Tacloban City will be sending their own cultural contingents to join the festivities here.
Makati City’s Caracol Festival
Read More..>>Typhoon Frank ravages the Philippines. Iloilo needs your help
Posted on June 25, 2008 - Filed Under News | 6 Comments
Last weekend the sixth typhoon to enter the Philippine area of responsibility has ravaged most of Panay Island, some areas of Negros Occidental, Leyte, and left several towns and cities flooded.
Typhoon Frank (International Name: Fengshen) claimed hundreds of lives, destroyed hundreds or even thousands of homes destroyed, and leaving a multitude of people with [...]
Tacloban Leyte Sangyaw Festival 2008 Schedule of Activities
Posted on June 10, 2008 - Filed Under Events, Festivals, News | Leave a Comment
Tacloban City Leyte is now gearing up for a new festival replacing the old Pintados Kasadyaan Festival. The Pintados Kasadyaan Festival was not totally removed. It will just be held two days earlier than its usual fiesta date.
The Sangyaw Festival promises to be very big with several big festivals from all over the [...]
Puerto Princesa’s Underground River gets booster from British envoy
Posted on June 4, 2008 - Filed Under News | 2 Comments
PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, June 03 (PNA) — The city government’s campaign to include Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park (PPSRNP), famously known as “Underground River” got a shot in the arm from the British envoy to the Philippines, no less.
Ambassador Peter Beckingham and his wife, Jill, visited the “Underground River” on Tuesday. The attraction [...]
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo orders special boat trip for night-lifers in Boracay Island Philippines
Posted on June 4, 2008 - Filed Under News | 1 Comment
ILOILO CITY, June 3 (PNA) – President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has ordered the Philippine Tourism Authority (PTA) to purchase a boat that will ferry tourists from Boracay to Caticlan in the mainland, until 3 o’clock in the morning.
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