US wakes up to a Miss America of Indian descent
For the first time America’s top beauty queen is a woman of Indian origin, and she is playing down racist tweets that say she looks like an Arab terrorist.
September 16, 2013
For the first time America’s top beauty queen is a woman of Indian origin, and she is playing down racist tweets that say she looks like an Arab terrorist.
Nina Davuluri became the first contestant of Indian heritage and the second consecutive contestant from New York to win the Miss America pageant Sunday night.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Sunday warned the public against buying unregistered stem cell supplements being peddled online.
Norberto Roldan will be the only Filipino artist to be featured with a work from the Guggenheim Museum collection when the traveling exhibit, “No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia,” opens in Hong Kong next month.
Help us tell the story,” said Lifestyle Asia editor in chief Anna Sobrepeña as she invited the press to spread the word about ManilArt 2013, the country’s biggest visual arts fair.
Soprano Camille Lopez Molina sang Verdi arias with the Manila Symphony Orchestra last Saturday and her voice was heard in all SM cinemas all over the country via “Sonata,” directors Peque Gallaga and Lore Reyes’ feature film entry to the ongoing Sineng Pambansa of the Film Development Council of the Philippines.
Regarded as “the most tempestuous” piano work by Ludwig Van Beethoven is his Sonata No. 23, popularly known as the Appassionata. The word is Italian for “passionate.”
Tropfest, the largest short film competition and festival in the world, calls on Southeast Asian filmmakers to compete and submit their short films for its inaugural run in the region to be held at Penang, Malaysia on Jan. 25, 2014.
The architecture category of this year’s Metrobank Art and Design Excellence (MADE) contest called for entries to design a waterfront across the iconic Cultural Center of the Philippines. It would serve as port terminal for tourists, foreign and local.
It’s really a tiny thing, but it represents the biggest of plans.
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