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UP Diliman student is Phl rep to int'l public speaking tilt

By Jovan Cerda | February 11, 2013 - 2:47pm

A senior student from the University of the Philippines Diliman won this year's search for the Philippine representative...

News Commentary

On to London for Ervim Charles!

By Alfred A. Yuson | March 29, 2010 - 12:00am

All set for the annual English Speaking Union (ESU) International Public Speaking Competition to be held in London in May is our student delegate Ervim Charles Orbase, an 18-year-old Multimedia Arts sophomore at...

Arts and Culture

Gawad Dangal ng Wikang Filipino

By Isagani Cruz | September 3, 2009 - 12:00am

I was lucky to have been one of this year’s awardees of the Gawad Dangal ng Wikang Filipino, given by the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF) last Friday at the Century Park Hotel.

Education and Home

Pinoy student wins int'l public speaking contest in London

May 11, 2008 - 12:00am

Sixteen-year-old Gian Dapul, an incoming senior at the Philippine Science High School, won the English Speaking Union’s International Public Speaking Competition held in London last Friday.

Headlines

Youth Speak - Patricia Evangelista

By Dulce M. Arguelles | June 20, 2004 - 12:00am

What’s next for 18-year-old Patricia Evangelista, who now enjoys a measure of fame after winning an international public speaking competition conducted by the English Speaking Union (esu) in London? But for...

Starweek Magazine

Taking a bullet for one’s country

By FROM A DISTANCE | By Carmen N. Pedrosa | May 23, 2004 - 12:00am

It can be argued that not to concede is to be patriotic (as one losing presidential candidate puts it) but the opposite is equally true to concede is to be patriotic. It depends on who defines patriotism. Indeed,...

Opinion

Hawthornden revisited

By Butch Dalisay | June 2, 2003 - 12:00am

As a young boy I wanted nothing more than to travel the world. My appetite was whetted by voracious reading about places like Lapland and Mongolia and the Pyrenees, and by the airliners that wrote vaporous signatures...

Arts and Culture

Speaking English in London

By Alfred A. Yuson | April 8, 2002 - 12:00am

A Filipino teener might do us proud anew in London by next month. And he would have all the chances to do this simply by speaking effective English.

Arts and Culture