Filipino ref Tapdasan predicts Pacquiao-Bradley rematch to end with decision win
Josef T. Ramos CorrespondentThe rematch between Filipino Manny Pacquiao and reigning World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight champion Timothy Bradley would most likely be decided through...
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Conrad M. Cariño Sports Columnist Photos from AFPManny Pacquiao and Timothy Bradley have contrasting fortunes going into their second fight on April 12, with the Filipino seeking redemption of his...
View ArticleSingapore’s entrep does well
CHIT JUAN Chit Juan She did it! Four years after the Singapore government gave her foundation (with charity status) property rights for 20 years on a 120,000 square feet piece of land in the city’s...
View ArticleZamboanga hosts the 9th Philippine Bird Festival
ALBERT BALBUTIN JR. HARIBON (Conclusion) The 9th Philippine Bird Festival held in Zamboanga City on February 26 to March 2 brought visitors from different parts of the world to the Philippines. The...
View ArticleSaving the Earth with beauty and grace
Miss Philippines-Earth 2014 candidates are all smiles as they pose together with ‘The Manila Times’ executive editor Dante Ang 2nd (center). (From left) Kimberly Covert from Dumaguete City in Negros...
View ArticlePOEMS BY REYA MARI VELOSO
Despite I. This language game: Tangled in a tango, my arguments Wrapped around your fingers, Your utterances blocking My blindside. II. We recall our first enchantments: Conversations at 4am, silences...
View ArticlePOEMS BY DENNIS ANDREW S. AGUINALDO
The Masses are composed (I delirious with song); a few on motorcycles, blowing fully- paid horns, worse for wear, brushed up. Of the women, those pregnant: thighs muffling the laughter, taking streets,...
View ArticleGuhit artists opens ‘Salu-Salo’ exhibit
Artwork titled ‘Felipe’s Backyard’ by Araceli Dans The “Guhit” group of eight outstanding Filipino painters and sculptors will open the Salu-Salo exhibit on April 12 at the BenCab Museum in Baguio...
View ArticleTaoid 2014 highlights Filipino legacies
Southern Leyte Mayor Melchor Petracorta (left) and Fr. Harold Rentoria, head of the Subcomssion on Cultural Heritage of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts The National Commission for...
View ArticleThoughts for the Holy Week
Alice Bustos-Orosa Alice Bustos-Orosa It would be unusual these days to meet someone who has not been hooked on social media. As more and more people write blogs or rave about the best vacations...
View ArticleThe Manila Cathedral: The ‘Mother Church’ restored
EUDEN VALDEZ The story of the Manila Cathedral is not only a story of the Church, it is also a story of Intramuros, a story of Manila, a story of the Philippines. Manila Cathedral is a time narrative;...
View ArticleA new beginning
Chit JuanChit Juan Our lives go on cycles, and often we find ourselves beginning a new chapter. Whether it is because we reach a milestone like a birthday or something crucial happens in our lives, we...
View ArticleGet rid of junk mail
(Easy and very simple tips for eco-friendly lifestyle; but enough to help conserve the treasures of nature.) More than 100 million trees are cut down each year to produce junk mail Junk mail is an...
View ArticleStart learning young
Ferni Anne Velasco Haribon FoundationAn adorable version of the video game ‘Plants vs. Zombies’ Going to the outdoor playschool did not go as smoothly as we would have wanted. With a minor foot injury,...
View Article‘Yolanda’-stricken mangroves in Leyte need long-term protection
Haribon foundationA map showing Leyte-Eastern Samar sites assessed in January and March, the mangrove areas highlighted Since Super Typhoon Yolanda devastated the mangroves in central Visayas, the...
View ArticleSpiritual and mystical aspects of John Paul the Great
Rene Q. Bas , Publisher/EditorJohn Paul II INSPIRING and lovable John Paul II the Great, who will be canonized in Rome with another great pope, John the 23rd, next Sunday, is well-known even to...
View ArticleWhat I learned from meeting ‘tariktik’
Lanie Carillo, Haribon FoundationParticipants who joined the Haribon’s Green Travel at Mangatarem, Pangasinan: (From left) Arlie Endonilla, the author, Raiza Elumba, Yna Molina and Cza Constantino I...
View ArticleWorld Wetlands Day celebrated
Martin Fowlie BirdLife InternationalThe Bird Sanctuary In Candaba Swamp shows the importance of wetlands as it help in flood control for downstream Pampanga River Every year, February marks World...
View ArticleArts and nature unite on Earth Day
The Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Earth Day organizer and Administrative Department Services manager Tess Rances with CCP vice president and artistic director Chris Millado THE Cultural Center of...
View Article‘Canticles for Three Women’ to be launched
Elmer A. Ordonez Literary EditorAfter two interconnected novels, Rony V. Diaz has finished a third one, the finale of the saga of the Montt family of the landed aristocracy in Central Luzon. Instead...
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