India billboard collapse: 12 dead, 60 injured

Agence France Presse 05/14/2024

Twelve people were killed and at least 60 injured after a billboard collapsed during a fierce storm in India’s financial capital Mumbai, officials said Monday. An excavator was digging through the wreckage as rescuers raced to find…

Beyoncé becomes first Black woman to claim top spot on Billboard’s country music chart

Associated Press 02/22/2024

LOS ANGELES  — Beyoncé made history once again: The superstar singer has become the first Black woman to top Billboard’s country music chart. The Grammy winner achieved the feat after her new single “Texas Hold ‘Em” reached…

LOOK: Janine Berdin gets featured in Times Square billboard in New York

Hannah Mallorca 12/22/2022

  Janine Berdin has reached new heights in her music career, after being the latest Filipino artist to be featured in a billboard in Times Square, New York City, U.S. Berdin, who gained recognition after winning the…

LOOK: Moira Dela Torre high up on billboard at New York’s Times Square

Dana Cruz - @inquirerdotnet 08/27/2022

Moira Dela Torre is ecstatic after she made it on a billboard at Times Square in New York City, courtesy of the music streaming platform Spofity. The “Malaya” singer gushed over the digital display at the iconic…

The Juans enter Billboard’s Top 10 Next Big Sound chart

Ian Biong 02/04/2021

Pop-rock band The Juans is now officially the third Filipino act to have made it to Billboard’s Top 10 Next Big Sound chart. The band took to Facebook on Feb. 2 to share the good news with…

Black Pink becomes highest-charting K-pop girl group on Billboard’s Hot 100

Inquirer.net 06/26/2018

South Korean idol group BLACKPINK is not yet done breaking records. On Tuesday, the group rewrote history as the highest-charting K-pop girl group ever on the Billboard 100 chart, as its latest single “DDU-DU DDU-DU” peaked at…

Porn airs in public through digital billboard in Makati

Inquirer.net 03/20/2018

A pornographic video was aired on one of the digital billboards flagging the Executive Building Center in Makati Avenue, Makati City today, around 2 p.m. The spectacle was captured by a bewildered netizen named Mulong Sermonia who…

‘Never again’ billboard removed

Victor Anthony V. Silva and Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 12/02/2015

LESS than two days after it went up along the Cebu South Coastal Road, the second “Never Again” billboard was  removed yesterday afternoon. Provincial Engineer Hector Jamora, who was heading  to Cebu City from Moalboal town, said…

Another ‘Never Again’ billboard now at Talisay

Victor Anthony V. Silva 12/01/2015

A second “Never Again” billboard has appeared, this time in Talisay City criticizing the 2008 purchase of the “underwater Balili property” by the Province of Cebu in the previous administration. A day after Capitol employees took down…

Another billboard climber rescued

Apple Ta-as, Chito O. Aragon 07/30/2015

A MAN yesterday scaled a  steel billboard frame in downtown Cebu City, causing  a commotion, but  he was persuaded to come down after being offered a fried chicken meal. It wasn’t clear why the 40-year-old  jeepney dispatcher …

Electric shock injures 2

Jucell Marie P. Cuyos 11/07/2013

TWO men suffered from electric shock as they were taking down billboards in preparation for supertyphoon Yolanda yesterday. In Cebu City, 33-year-old Tonald Malabusa, a member of the maintenance crew of a fast food outlet in JY…

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