Sab marks first music anniversary and “Sunsets & Heaven” album launch with a free concert

Wrap up the week with some good music from one of Star Music’s fresh artists, Sab, as she officially launches her debut album “Sunsets & Heaven” (which will drop tonight at midnight in Manila!) and celebrate her first year in the music industry with a FREE concert happening tomorrow, July 23, Friday, at 8:00 p.m. (Manila), live streaming at her @officialsabmusic account on Kumu and Facebook.

Sab officially launched her music career under Star Music last year through her coming-of-age single “She.” Since it was launched, the song was a hit and was even included on Spotify’s New Music Friday playlist in Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. It was also part of Spotify Japan’s editorial playlist when it was released in July last year. Her debut single was also used in several shows: locally, in the iWantTFC digital series “Hello Stranger,” and internationally in the TvN-produced Korean drama series “Flower of Evil.”

ABS-CBN News online and TV Patrol expand global news coverage with TFC News overseas segments

Longest-running multiplatform Filipino news program now has news from North America, Europe, Middle East and Asia-Pacific for overseas Filipino viewers

With 2020 turning out to be one of the biggest dumpster fires in history as humanity tried to navigate through almost 365 days of various crises while confined in lockdowns or quarantines, the hunger of people around the world for news and information that are factual and accurate, timely, relevant, accessible, and understandable couldn't be more emphasized. 

It is within this context that ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs, the news and current programming affairs division of leading Filipino media and entertainment company ABS-CBN Corporation and its global flagship channel, TFC, decided to strategize and redesign news programming and news delivery.  

MVP Group Launches Gabay Advocacies for a Sustainable Philippines

In celebration of Chairman Manuel V Panglinan’s 75th birthday, the MVP Group of Companies will be launching its six GABAY Advocacies for a Sustainable Philippines through a digital concert on July 14, 8:00 PM. The event will feature the brightest stars of the Philippine entertainment industry coming together for the various causes that the group is supporting.

Through the years, MVP has inculcated the culture of “malasakit” within his organization.  He believes that with proper guidance and support, anyone can have the power to change their lives and rise above any crisis or setback.   It is for this reason that the group’s advocacies carry the word “Gabay” – because it embodies who MVP is to many – an inspiration, a true leader, and a guiding light.  

Broadcasted through Gabay Guro Facebook and YouTube accounts, the Virtual Concert will be hosted by Ogie Alacasid, Iza Calzado alongside Augie Palisoc Jr., President of the Metro Pacific Hospitals Holdings Inc., and Bong Sta. Maria, President and CEO of Pilipinas Global Network.

Bb. Pilipinas crowns new title-holders to represent the PHL

Newly crowned Queens to vie for international titles

Four beautiful, intelligent, and eloquent Filipinas were crowned at the Grand Coronation Night of the Binibining Pilipinas pageant held last night, July 11 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum. 

Hannah Arnold took home the Bb. Pilipinas International title, Samantha Panlilio was crowned Bb. Pilipinas Grand International, Cinderella Faye Obeñita won the title of Bb. Pilipinas Intercontinental, and Maureen Montagne earned the Bb. Pilipinas Globe crown. 

Meanwhile, Gabrielle Camille Basiano and Meiji Cruz were named Bb. Pilipinas 2021 1st Runner-up and Bb. Pilipinas 2021 2nd Runner-up, respectively. 

TFC Middle East furthers reach in UAE through eLife and Switch TV partnership

As the biggest Filipino-owned media and entertainment company, ABS-CBN, continues to innovate and serve more Filipinos worldwide, TFC Middle East, its international arm in the region, strengthens its partnership with Etisalat, one of the world’s leading telecom groups in emerging markets, as more TFC content offerings will be seen on its eLife, IPTV and SwitchTV, OTT platforms starting this July.

Headquartered in Abu Dhabi, Etisalat provides innovative solutions and services to 154 million subscribers in 16 countries across the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. 

Yong Chavez of ABS-CBN TFC News North America selected to join Hollywood's new Critics Association

The Critics Choice Association (CCA) will introduce a major new awards event in 2022 – The World Movie Awards – which will honor the finest in non-English language films.  This global event has been in the planning stages for several years and has gained fresh impetus thanks to the recent formation of an International Branch of the CCA, which began enlisting new members this spring. 

“It has been clear for some time that many, if not most, of the leading critics and entertainment journalists reporting for foreign audiences were not welcome in the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, so the CCA has opened its big tent and welcomed in dozens of them,” announced Critics Choice Association CEO Joey Berlin yesterday.

Best Sisters Forever, the new short from the director of Your Name Engraved Herein, gives "lip-syncing for your life" a new meaning

Best Sisters Forever, the latest title by Patrick Liu, the creator behind Taiwan's highest-grossing LGBT film of all time, Your Name Engraved Herein, will be making its exclusive premiere via GagaOOLala, globally on 2 July 2021. A first for both Liu and GagaOOLala, the partnership between the Taiwanese director and the platform explores the rising ‘drag’ culture within the queer landscape of Asia with Taiwan at the forefront of the LGBT rights and movement in the region. The film offers an authentic glimpse into the drag sisterhood in Taiwan and contains real-life performances by Taiwanese drag queens in the nation’s most famous gay destination, the Ximending district of Taipei.

The plot of the film centers on the graceful Xuerong (Heng-Chi Kuo) and the fun and frivolous Yihong (Ta SU), two gay best friends ‘sisters’, who get into a heated argument over questions concerning promiscuity and eventually decide to go their separate ways. A terrible misunderstanding leaves the once inseparable ‘sisters’ estranged for several years. However, a tragic turn of events suddenly reunites the two. Knowing their days together are numbered, the pair, then, set out on an adventure hoping to gain lost opportunities and make fond memories. Along the way, they gradually make important discoveries about life, love, friendship, and family, with a long-lost dream ultimately coming true for the life-long duo.