North Korea sends 600 more trash-filled balloons over border

Agence France Presse 06/02/2024

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea has sent around 600 more trash-filled balloons containing everything from cigarette butts to plastic across the border, Seoul’s military said Sunday, adding that security personnel were collecting them as they landed.…

Bye-bye, balloons

Hyacinth Tagupa - @inquirerdotnet 02/19/2021

In the last several years, we’ve heard so much about the dangers of plastic waste, and I occasionally write about it. But at this point, I have to acknowledge that giving up plastics is incredibly hard. It’s…

Balloons still off limits inside Basilica

Ador Vincent Mayol 01/08/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines –As it was in the past eight years, balloons shall be prohibited inside the complex of the Basilica Minore del Santo Niño in Cebu City as well as during the fluvial and foot processions.…

MAO BA?

Editorial 12/21/2017

NO TO FLYING BALLOONS AT THE BASILICA Netizens are in agreement with the decision of the Augustinian fathers who run the Basilica Minore del Sto. Niño to not allow the release of balloons at the church’s courtyard…

Total ban on balloons to be implemented at the Basilica del Santo Niño

Ador Vincent Mayol 12/21/2017

For the past six years, the Augustinian fathers of the Basilica del Sto. Niño in Cebu City have repeatedly appealed to devotees of the Child Jesus to stop releasing balloons in the air, saying it is harmful…

Rainy weather, balloons delay flights, flower drop

Norman V. Mendoza 01/14/2017

ZERO visibility due to the weather and the presence of balloons containing written petitions from the Catholic faithful caused heavy air traffic at the Mactan Cebu International Airport (MCIA) yesterday. As a result, incoming and departing flights…

Sto. Niño priests ask devotees to stop using balloons

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 01/03/2017

The Augustinian fathers made an appeal to those who will be participating in this year’s Sinulog celebrations to stop the practice of releasing balloons, with prayers written on slips tied to the tails. The 452nd Fiesta Señor…

Balloons and cotton candy

Victor Anthony V. Silva 11/01/2016

BALLOONS and cotton candy are favorites of children accompanying their parents visiting the graves of their loved ones. With this target market, Matilde Cepillos with the help of her grandson Anthony, 13, sell balloons at the Calamba…

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