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Lady Gaga - one of the most popular Pop star today will be having a concert in Manila, Philippines at the Araneta Coliseum.

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta better known now as Lady Gaga used to work as a songwriter for popular artists like Fergie, Britney Spears, New kids on the block and the Pussycat Dolls.

If you love listening to her songs like Just Dance, Poker Face, Paparazzi, LoveGame, Eh Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say) and The Fame then its your chance to watch her live concert here in Manila.

Manila Concert

Concert venue will be at Araneta Coliseum on August 11, 2009 (8 pm). You can buy Tickets at TicketNet outlets nationwide or call (02) 911-5555

Lady Gaga concert Ticket prices:

VIP - 7,875 pesos
Patron Standing - 5,775
Patron (Reserved Seating) - 5,775
Lower Box (Reserved Seating) - 3,675
Upper Box A - 2,625
Upper Box B - 1,050
General Admission - 525

The most awaited Darna 2009 TV serries starring Marian Rivera recently announced their complete cast in a story conference held yesterday at the GMA Network Center in Edsa.

Dominic Zapata and Don Michael Perez will direct the TV series and the show will be aired in August 2009.

Heres the main cast :

Marian Rivera as Darna and Narda
Mark Anthony Fernandez as Efren
Iwa Moto as Valentina
Buboy Villar as Ding
Rita Avila and Jestoni Alarcon - Narda’s parents
Nadine Samonte, Isabel Oli, and Ehra Madrigal - other villainess
Janice de Belen as Valentina’s mother
Paolo Contis as Valentina’s father
Celia Rodriguez as orphanage director

Other Darna cast includes Alfred Vargas, Angel Aquino, Bearwin Meily, Margaret Wilson, Caridad Sanchez, Gabby Eigenmann, and Roxanne Barcelo.

Celebrating the Philippine Independence Day, the Filipino-Swiss community in Zurich in cooperation with the Philippine Embassy in Berne and the Department of Tourism held a fashion event that promoted local haute couture.

The collection by Filipino designer Nono Palmos featured European-inspired designs using indigenous fabrics such as the patadyong, piña, gaddang and yakan. The dinner fashion event held at the Swissotel City Ballroom in Zurich welcomed more than 350 guests from the Swiss government, business, travel media, and tour stakeholders.

Filipino Fashion Show in Zurich

The show aimed to help Filipino ethnic weavers from several regions in the Philippines to continue creating their centuries old craft and sustain their livelihood. Photo shows a European version of the Filipiniana outfit, made out of piña fabric.

The Department of Tourism (DOT) is inviting the various tourism stakeholders to join in the 4th Travel Exchange to be held at the Robinson’s Place here in Iloilo city on August 28-30, 2009.

DOT Regional Dir. Edwin Trompeta said that the event could provide them with opportunities to meet their buyers from all over the Philippines, including those from Metro Manila, Cebu and Davao.

He said this would allow them to see what Western Visayas could offer in terms of the hotels, resorts and other facilities.

“The event is a marketing strategy to help the local tourism stakeholders become more aggressive in selling their establishments,” Dir. Trompeta said.

He said to be presented during the affair are the various adventure and water sports, holiday cruise programs, airlines with low fares and travel accessories that could be availed of by the tourists.

The event will be held in partnership with the Selrahco Management and Consultancy Services and the Robinson’s Place Iloilo management.

Aside from being a global boxing superstar. Manny Pacquiao managed to become a Billionaire and currently ranked 6th in the Worlds Richest Athlete Roster.

Manny Pacquiao affirmed his status as one of the brightest lights in the boxing firmament with his first ever appearance on Forbes Magazine’s list of world’s highest-paid athletes this year.

Pacquiao was declared as the world’s best pound-for-pound fighter, emerged tied in earnings with current NBA Most Valuable player LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers and golfer Phil Mickelson, just a shade under soccer glamour boy David Beckham ($42 million).

Other athletes on the list confined to those who earned at least $30 million were motorcyclist Valentino Rossi ($35M), Nascar superstar Dale Earnhardt Jr. ($34M), Formula One racer Lewis Hamilton ($32M), New York Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez ($32M), golfer Vijay Singh ($31M), Boston Celtics’ Kevin Garnett ($31M), Nascar driver Jeff Gordon ($30M), New York Yankees’ Derek Jeter ($30M) and two-time football Player of the Year Ronaldinho ($30M) of AC Milan.

Another huge paycheck awaits Pacquiao when he returns to the ring on Nov. 14, most likely against WBC welterweight champion Miguel Cotto of Puerto Rico.

A megabuck bout with Floyd Mayweather Jr. is also on the horizon for Pacquiao, who is already considered the best Asian and best southpaw fighter ever and is a cinch to enter boxing’s Hall of Fame.

Source : Inquirer.net

An actress from the hit Korean television drama ABS-CBN’s “Boys Over Flowers” and an internationally acclaimed illusionist graced Sony Ericsson’s Ultimate Entertainment Adventure media launch Wednesday.

Lee Min Jung, Sony Ericsson’s brand model in Korea, modeled her C903 cyber-shot phone before members of the press.

“I have been very busy these days but I have such a great time doing the shots with C903,” said the actress. 

Boys over Flowers actress

She played the role of Ha Jae Kyung, the main character Jun Pyo’s (Lee Min Ho) fiancée in the drama series being aired in ABS-CBN Primetime Bida.

The cyber-shot phone has a 5.0 megapixel camera with up to 16x digital zoom. It comes in with high tech features like photo fix, picture and video blogging, auto focus, smile shutter, face detection, BestPic, photo flash, video recording, image and video stabilizer and Snapfish.

“It looks like a camera and I use it everyday. It’s very easy to use. My friends thought that this is a camera,” she said.

C903 has three colors that every fashionista could choose from to capture a memorable moment. Its main screen is 2.4 inches in size and the phone weighs 96 grams. Read the rest of this entry »

Jolo Revilla is back in ABS-CBN with Agimat: Ang mga Alamat ni Ramon Revilla - an upcoming action-adventure series on ABS-CBN afternoon block.

The plot is about four young men whose lives have been changed by  a “lambana” or a fairy, who gave them superpowers with amulets.

Jolo Revilla however will play Pepeng Agimat, Gerald Anderson as Tiagong Akyat, Jake Cuenca as Elias Paniki, and Coco Martin as Tonyong Bayawak.

Agimat will be filled with suspense, comedy, drama and action and will premiere soon on ABS-CBN.

It will be air in ABS-CBN’s afternoon block very very soon…

Foreign investors’ interest in the local tourism sector is back as investors position themselves in the robust tourism industry even as investments in other sectors remain sluggish.

The latest entrant is the Best Western International (BWI), the world’s largest hotel chain whose global brand Best Western Hotel is being marketed in the country for hotel investors and owners.

“We are very optimistic about the outlook for tourism in the Philippines and Best Western has the products and support to optimize the opportunities,” said Glenn de Souza, BWI vice-president for operations Asia.

Souza said the BWI plans to accredit 15 hotels by 2012 making the country’s largest chain of hotels.

Cyndy Tan-Jabarata, president of Tajara Leisure & Hospitality, the local partner for the marketing and development – Area Development Office (ADO) of BWI, said they would be responsible in the finding for investors for Best Western Hotel. Read the rest of this entry »

For such well-regarded government institution as the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) with lotto dealer outlets in almost every corner of this southern bustling city, it’s hard to disregard and ignore its impact in the lives of ordinary people here.

We’ve not gotten around to interview the local top official here, but bumping into impoverished farmers trying to get their children medical help and even hospitalization at the Maharlika Charity Foundation medical center along J. Cabaguio Avenue here — one gets a sense that all that money from sweepstakes and lotto sales are actually trickling down to the poor masses who desperately need medical help.

Maharlika Foundation is right on top of the office of PCSO, its main benefactor, along Cabaguio Avenue. And it is here where you bump into the poorest of the poor trying to get free medicines and free hospitalization from PCSO.

Not only do we see them at the PCSO office on some occasions, but also on the pages of a little red booklet titled “How To Win Lotto” which cited the PCSO for helping the poor in Davao seek free medical help Read the rest of this entry »

Boys Over Flowers is a popular koreanovela that will soon be aired on ABS-CBN based from the popular Japanese manga “Hana Yori Dango.”

The most talked about cast of the popular koreanobela Boys Over Flowers are Koo Hye-sun as Geum Gan Di, Lee Min-ho as Gu Dyun Pyo, Kim Hyun-joong as Yun Ji Hoo, Kim Bum as So Yi Jeong and Kim Joon as Song Woo Bin. Also starring are Han Chae-young, Kim Hyun-joo and Kim So Eun.

Boys over Flowers ABS-CBN

In the tradition of the phenomenal hit Meteor Garden, ABS-CBN brings back the popular story of an extraordinary girl and four gorgeous and influential guys of F4 in a Korean version, Boys Over Flowers. Read the rest of this entry »