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PAGCor Photo Contest Returns with ‘Harvest Time’ Theme for 2024
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The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCor) is bringing back its popular photography competition this year with a new category and, more importantly, bigger prizes to lure more amateur and professional photographers into joining the competition.
With the ‘Harvest Time’ theme, the PAGCor Photography Contest 2024 aims to showcase the Filipino’s strength of character, patience and hard work in the fields that are often rewarded with bountiful harvest and more fulfilling lives.
The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for PAGCor, Alejandro Tengco, said this year’s photo contest will feature a new category – Drone – that has become very popular in photography because of its ability to capture breathtaking views from the air.
“As we promised last year during the awards ceremony for the PAGCor Photo Contest 2023, we have also increased our cash prizes for this year’s winners in all categories,” Tengco said.
He said the contest will accept entries from February 15 to July 31, 2024, through the PAGCor website at www. PAGCor. ph/PhotoCon2024.
Tengco said this year’s contest theme pays homage to crop and livestock farmers, flower and aquaculture growers, fishermen and others whose harvests help ensure food security not only for their families but also for the country.
“They are crucial to our country’s development and sustainability,” Tengco said. “While our contest theme aims to capture the raw beauty of the countryside during harvest season, it also reflects our gratitude and support to farmers and fishers who are the real unsung heroes of our time.”
To further widen the scope of the competition, Tengco said PAGCor likewise lowered the participants’ age eligibility from 18 to 16 years old so that students and younger people will be encouraged to take up photography as a creative hobby.
“While we want to recognize the talent of our professional and hobbyist photographers, we also want to hone the talent and creativity of our youth,” Tengco said. “We want to use this contest to showcase their skills and motivate them to develop their craft further.”
Tengco said PAGCor has also increased total cash prizes for the contest from Php1.6 million last year to Php2.23 million this year.
The PAGCor Photography Contest 2024 Conventional Category will feature photos taken using all types of digital cameras like single lens reflex, compact, point-and-shoot, bridge, mirrorless and rugged. The Mobile Category will cover entries taken using mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, action cameras, 360 cameras and the like while the newly-added Drone Category will cover aerial photos taken using drone-mounted cameras.
PAGCor will select eight grand winners for each category with the Conventional Category winners taking home Php100,00 each plus a trophy. Meanwhile, the eight grand winners for the Mobile and Drone Categories will take home Php50,000 each plus a trophy.
There will also be 24 non-winning grand finalists who will get consolation prizes of P35,000 for the Conventional Category while Php20,000 will be awarded in the Mobile and Drone Categories. A special cash prize of P10,000 per category will also be awarded.
Asia
PAGCOR BRAVES FLOODS TO HELP DISASTER-HIT COMMUNITIES
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At the height of the downpour and massive flooding in Metro Manila and nearby provinces Wednesday, volunteer teams from the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) started bringing relief packs to affected communities.
Classes and government work were suspended on Wednesday and Thursday due to the widespread flooding, but PAGCOR volunteers went into action nevertheless.
“Even at the height of the flooding, and even before the President ordered government agencies to provide assistance to affected communities, PAGCOR employees already went to action to help those in need,” PAGCOR Chairman and CEO Alejandro H. Tengco said.
The PAGCOR chief said that since July 24, the agency has delivered more than 21,000 food and non-food relief packs for thousands of affected families.
“After the heavy rains subsided and it was safe to do so, we started bringing immediate aid to flooded communities in Caloocan City on Wednesday, followed by relief operations in Valenzuela, Malabon and Malolos, Bulacan the next day,” he said.
Mr. Tengco added that PAGCOR was scheduled to distribute relief goods to the cities of Marikina and Navotas on Friday as well as to affected towns in Bulacan like Calumpit and Bulakan which were all submerged in floodwater.
“It has been second nature to PAGCOR to immediately respond to the needs of affected communities in times of disasters,” he said.
“We understand that while it is part of our mandate to contribute to nation-building, it is also our moral obligation to help ease the plight of Filipinos in times when they need help the most,” the PAGCOR chief added.
He said PAGCOR’s relief operations are ongoing, with more employees volunteering to help repack relief goods Saturday and Sunday in the agency’s warehouse in Imus, Cavite to support distribution efforts in the coming days in Bataan, Batangas and Cavite.
Asia
AGTech Wins Lottery Terminal Supply Tenders for Shaanxi, Zhejiang and Jiangsu Provinces
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Lottery and integrated technology and services company AGTech Holdings Limited (AGTech) has announced that one of its wholly-owned subsidiaries has successfully won procurement tenders to supply lottery terminals to Sports Lottery Administration Centres in Shaanxi province, Zhejiang province and Jiangsu province of the People’s Republic of China.
AGTech already has previous success in the China market, having won a bid in 2018 for supplying its new dual, touchscreen lottery terminals to the Chinese provinces of Guizhou, Shanghai and Hebei.
Even before this, AGTech introduced new instant win games, launched in partnership with Chinese logistics firm SF Holdings across Shenzen, Nanchang, Changsha and Nanjing.
Asia
Philippine President Marcos Announces Ban on POGOs
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Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr has banned the establishment of any new Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs), also known as Internet Gaming Licensees (IGLs), with immediate effect. Existing POGO operators will have until the end of the year to wind down their operations.
The verdict, not entirely unexpected, was delivered during his State of the Nation Address in Manila on Monday following widespread pressure from a Senate investigation into illegal POGO-linked activities.
“Effective today, all POGOs are banned. I hereby instruct [gaming regulator] PAGCOR to wind down and cease the operations of POGOs by the end of the year,” Marcos said in his SONA.
The decision to shut down POGOs follows a series of recent raids on illegal POGO compounds in Pampanga and Tarlac amid allegations they had been engaging in human trafficking and scam activities.
A full ban, proposed by multiple senators, had also gained the support of the Department of Finance (DOF) and the National Economic and Development Authority.
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