PH's 'Cinderella Man' receives RING flyweight belt | ABS-CBN News

Angono, hindi lang pang artists, pang sports pa! Sonny Boy Jaro, maipagmamalaking Adopted Son of Angono.


PH's 'Cinderella Man' receives RING flyweight belt

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Posted at 06/20/2012 6:39 PM | Updated as of 06/20/2012 6:39 PM

MANILA, Philippines – Filipino boxing champion Sonny Boy Jaro finally received his The RING flyweight belt months after his sixth-round technical knockout victory over Thai boxing legend Pongsaklek Wonjongkam.

Jaro, who also owns the World Boxing Council (WBC) flyweight crown, was handed the RING belt at the Angono Municipal Gymnasium in Rizal, according to RingTV.


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Rizal Promotes Laguna Lake Protection | The Manila Bulletin Newspaper Online

'di kaya dapat ay magkaroon na ng moratorium sa pagko-convert sa pagiging subdibisyon ng mga bundok na nakapaligid sa Laguna Lake. Reforestation ang higit na makakatulong sa pagbuhay ng Lawa ng Laguna.

Rizal Promotes Laguna Lake Protection

By NEL ANDRADE

June 17, 2012, 3:44pm

ANGONO, Rizal – In its continuing effort to protect and preserve the Laguna Lake, the provincial government and the local government here have joined forces in the recent tree-planting activities along the lakeshore villages of this town.

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'Bizarre Foods' host sees Pinoy food fad in US | ABS-CBN News

Balaw Balaw Folk Food Restaurant of the family of Perdigon Vocalan is really popular with all this international exposure by Mr. Andrew Zimmern of Travel Channel's Bizarre Foods.


 "MANILA, Philippines -- "Bizarre Foods" host Andrew Zimmern is predicting Filipino cuisine to be the next big thing among American diners.

Zimmern made the prediction an interview with the website of the US morning show "Today," which was published on Tuesday.

“I predict, two years from now, Filipino food will be what we will have been talking about for six months … I think that’s going to be the next big thing,” he told Today.com.

“I want to go on record — this is not something that’s hot now somewhere and will get hot everywhere else,” he said. “It’s just starting. I think it’s going to take another year and a half to get up to critical mass, but everybody loves Chinese food, Thai food, Japanese food, and it’s all been exploited."

"The Filipinos combined the best of all of that with Spanish technique. The Spanish were a colonial power there for 500 years, and they left behind adobo and cooking in vinegar — techniques that, applied to those tropical Asian ingredients, are miraculous,” he told the website."

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Works of Blanco family of artists from Angono featured in New York exhibit

Another feat for The Great Blanco Family of Artists of Angono!

Works of Blanco family of artists from Angono featured in New York exhibit

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The family that creates art together stays together.

 

The renowned Blanco family from Angono, Rizal are the featured artists at the Philippine Center in New York for Philippine Independence Month, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Thursday.

 

The Philippine Consulate General (PCG) in New York and the Philippine Center Management Board (PCMB) jointly organized the exhibit by the Blanco family from June 3 to 15.

 

Dubbed "Art by the Blanco Family," the exhibit is "part of this year's celebration of the 114th anniversary of the proclamation of Philippine Independence," the DFA said in a news release. 

 

The works exhibited were made by the second and third generations of the Blanco family, all taught by their late patriarch and Filipino master Jose Blanco: Glen, Noel, Michael, Joy, John, Gay, and Peter Paul and their children.

 

The DFA said the Blanco family is best known for a folk realism style, depicting the so-called "Tagalog Pastorale."

 

Many of the subjects of their works are based on the flora and fauna as well as the rituals of rural life in their hometown of Angono, Rizal.

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SULIT TRUE TO ITS NAME; Online ad exchange yields millions for couple

Ang kakayahan at galing ng mga taga-Angono ay hindi lang sa larangan ng sining kundi maging sa makabagong teknolohiya ng Internet.  
Sa dami ng mga artists sa Angono, di kaya dapat ay pagtuunan din ng pansin ang pagpapaunlad sa sining gamit ang makabagong teknolohiya, tulad ng graphic arts and design.

"RJ David dreamed of inventing something that can be used by many people. His wife, Arianne, wanted a business. Together, they established an online classified advertising site that got them what they both fancied—and more.

Sulit.com.ph (sulit is Tagalog for “worth it” or something that measured up to expectations) was created and launched in RJ’s bed room in 2006. It did not take long before the venture got him into a boardroom.

RJ and Arianne, his girlfriend then, started with an experimental website to test what product will bring the heaviest traffic.

RJ said he spent P2,400 to put up the website, P1,800 of which was used to pay for the domain name and P600 for the hosting.

“What we poured in was time and effort, not much in terms of money was needed,” RJ said.

RJ said the first few months of operating the site was difficult, with Arianne and him alternating for a morning and night shifts to maintain and oversee it.

Their first office, he said, was the terrace of his parents’ house in Angono, Rizal."

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Region 4-A flood-prone areas bared | The Manila Bulletin Newspaper Online

Region 4-A flood-prone areas bared | The Manila Bulletin Newspaper Online:

Angono is listed as both flood and landslide prone municipality in the Province of Rizal. Being declared as such, what measures should be undertaken by the local government to proactively avoid calamity of greater magnitude.

Do we see moratorium on conversion of remaining forest area in Rizal Province into residential area or golf courses? or a need to map out government owned lots that needs reforestation.

We should act now before its too late.

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Aquino thanks troops for safe, longest procession | Inquirer News

Aquino thanks troops for safe, longest procession | Inquirer News:

But Interior Secretary Jesse M. Robredo said he believed that the threat had passed following the raids conducted by police on suspected terrorist lairs on Sunday and Monday. The raids, though, yielded negative results.

“The downgrading of the alert status will formally come from the PNP, but because the (feast) is over, we don’t want the citizens to be alarmed by the prevailing high alert,” he said.

Robredo said various PNP units raided suspected terrorist safe houses in Angono, Rizal province; Culiat, Quezon City; and Baseco in Manila.

He also explained that previous intelligence reports indicating a possible terror threat were not specific to the Black Nazarene procession, but that recent assessments made by government experts pointed to the procession as the most likely target of an attack.'

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Every resident of Angono should be extra vigilant and report suspicious looking persons/activities in their community to the nearest barangay hall or police precinct.