Filipino Eduard "Landslide" Folayang is set to defend his ONE Lightweight world champion belt for the first time against Malaysian Ev "E.T." Ting on April 21 at the SM Mall of Asia in Manila.
One of four Filipinos are considered poor. Nine of ten Filipino farmer families do not till their own land and are subjected to steep land rents, unfair agricultural trading prices and usury. Almost three million Filipinos are unemployed.
The Davao-based band, THEA, was among the semi-finalists of the International Songwriting Competition 2016.
Instead of setting up industries that benefit the nation, adding income to public coffers, and ensuring the creation of jobs for millions of Filipino workers, the President instead continues to implement neoliberal economic policies that fatten only the purses of large-scale foreign companies.
Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Judy M. Taguiwalo (third from right) leads the signing of the Memorandum of Agreement in the implementation of Libreng Gamot Para Sa Masa Program during the DSWD 66th Anniversary Program in Davao City on Friday, March 3, 2017. (Photo from DSWD Region 11)