Acclaimed Philippine directors Joel Lamangan, Pepe Diokno, Perci Intalan and Mike Sandejas shared their valued opinions and prized insights on the current state of local cinema before aspiring filmmaking students of the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde (DLS-CSB) and other film buffs and enthusiasts, in an open forum entitled Meet the Directors: The Veterans and The Maverick at the college’s School of Design and Arts (SDA) Theater.

In partnership with Benildean Filmworks, the official film organization of the institution, the seminar was moderated by multi-award-winning director Jose Javier Reyes, Program Chairperson of Digital Filmmaking (DFilm) Program, which celebrates its 10th Anniversary.

President Rodrigo Duterte, who promised clean and honest midterm elections next year, is planning to set up checkpoints nationwide and limit the number of each candidate’s security escorts and firearms to just two.

“I will limit the firearms to only two. Uniformed security, two,” Duterte said during the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan leadership assembly in Pasay City Friday at the GSIS Financial Center. 

St. Benilde's Justin Gutang needed just a completed dunk in beating Arellano U’s William de Leon and Lyceum of the Philippines U’s Enoch Valdez in the finals to emerge the slam dunk king of the Season 94 NCAA All-Star Game at the Filoil Flying V Centre in San Juan City.

Gutang did a reverse two-handed dunk at first, tried to do another one but failed to complete it before settling for a left-handed jam that elicited a 41 from the five-member judges’ panel that included Alab coach Jimmy Alapag and NCAA Press Corps president Norman Riego.

Filipino fast food chain Jollibee has introduced a new batch of value-centered families vying for the Jollibee Family Values Awards.

Since its launch in 2011, the JFVA has recognized numerous Filipino families for their exemplary advocacies that improve the lives of people in their communities.

Out of hundreds of entries from the country and abroad, the finalists for the 8th year of the search include 11 families from Luzon, one family from Visayas, one from Mindanao, and two overseas Filipino worker families from Australia and the United States.

Mapúa University Senior High School students are prepping for their Student Council elections. One of the running parties is Laraya, created by Verrick Sta. Ana, External Vice President of Mapúa SHSSC and now running for President. He personally facilitated the screening and selection of the party’s 17 members.

Paris—Goats can distinguish smiling human faces from frowning ones on photos, and actively seek out snapshots of happier individuals, a study said Wednesday.

Shown two pictures of the same person—one with a happy expression and the other angry—20 domesticated goats in an experiment were more likely to approach the smiling image and touch it with their snout, said researchers from Europe and Brazil.