PH hosts ASEAN taekwondo championship

THE Philippine Taekwondo Association is proud to announce the country’s hosting of the 2023 16th ASEAN Taekwondo Championships slated March 10 to 12 at the Ayala Malls, Manila Bay in Parañaque City.

The country’s best and brightest stars are expected to don the national colors in the tournament serving as a pre-Southeast Asian Games showdown.

“More or less, ‘yung mga SEAG athletes ang ipadadala rito. This event has been a tradition in our

Asean Taekwondo Federation, family that is why it is held on the same calendar year of the SEA Games,” said PTA Secretary General Raul Samson. Around 383 athletes, officials and international referees from the eight member countries have confirmed their participation, such as Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam and Laos.

The biennial event is supported by SMART/MVP Sports Foundation, Philippine Sports Commission and

Philippine Olympic Committee.

The PTA just recently concluded its national selection for members of the team for the 32nd Southeast Asian Games in Cambodia on May 6 to 17. Among big names selected are Tokyo Olympian Kurt Barbosa and fellow World Championships (Mexico) campaigners and 2019 Manila Southeast Asian Games gold medalist Dave Cea (-74kg), Laila Delo (-67kg), Baby Jessica Canabal (-53kg), Joseph Chua (63kg), and Alfritz Arevalo (-68kg).

Techno violinist Princess Ibañez

MANILA Polo Club celebrates the end of the 2023 polo season with Symphony at the Terrace, a grand open-air concert on March 30 at 7:00 p.m at the East Terrace & Enrique Zobel Field of Manila Polo.

Seasoned concert producer Eddie Yap, who is MPC past president, is staging this special event for Manila Polo in the style of grand arena concerts in Europe, with music from the most famous classical symphonic compositions by master composers and songs from popular choruses, operas, operettas, and waltzes and ballet, now part of international music and dances. Revel in the performances of the Philippine