Internet provider wins big at CIO Asia Awards
PLDT Home, the home digital services unit of telecoms leader PLDT, has been recognized for its leadership in digital innovation in Asia for its pioneering data sharing initiative, in partnership with...
View ArticleThe future of Filipino design
Filipino designers had proven to be innovative, intuitive, and connected to both the world and their origins, with creations and collections spicing up showrooms and living spaces around the world. In...
View ArticleFrom travelers to entrepreneurs
The world inspired three ladies to start their businesses Filipino fashion entrepreneurs have innate creativity and skills, and can showcase local products to the rest of the world. Among them are...
View ArticleThe making of the iconic Coke
EUDEN VALDEZ, SENIOR STAFF WRITEROf the “World’s Most Valuable Brands” identified by Forbes magazine, only one out of 10 prides itself with a century’s worth of history and heritage. The said brand is...
View ArticleThe Agusan Monologues
DENNIS ANDREW S. AGUINALDO“Please open yourself to another way a few horizontal Metallic strips slightly bind a people here,” she said. “Your body’s not going to give fruits, Wild boar, and clear...
View ArticleVilla’s Mistress
ADRIAN E. CRISTOBALILLUSTRATION BY PERRY GIL MALLARI NONE of his closest friends, not Virgie Moreno, Larry Francia, not any of his American pupils who attended his weekly poetry tutorials, knew he had...
View ArticleIndigenous textile designs recognized
SCCta head renee talavera, nCCa deputy Executive director Marichu tellano and Chairman Felipe de leon Jr. awards aJ Bernabe for his winning ‘bul-ol’ inspired Barong tagalog Seven designers in different...
View ArticlePH Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale discusses built heritage
The Philippines’ participation at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale Di Venezia has started a conversation about the nation’s built heritage with its selected exhibition,...
View ArticleTo Conductor Ochanine, a final, lusty Bravo!
ROSALINDA L. OROSARosalinda L. Orosa Conducting for the last time the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra which, since 2010, he has considerably helped train, discipline, introduce new pieces and develop...
View ArticleSimplifying the overwrought
KATRINA STUART SANTIAGOKATRINA STUART SANTIAGO Graphic novels and comics always make me feel like a newbie, always discovering new works by old people, old works by new people; always overwhelmed by...
View ArticleHashtag relationship goals
CARLA BIANCA V. RAVANESCARLA BIANCA V. RAVANES Now that I am past a certain target market (‘di na ako bagets), I sometimes cringe when I use terms that are obviously for the Snapchat generation. But no...
View Article‘Bata, TARA Na!’ champions reading
Aiming to nurture the minds of the youth and promote the value of reading books a new storytelling and book-giving campaign for less privileged kids has been launched under the project, “Bata, TARA Na!...
View ArticleInspiring by example
MARICOR ZAPATA, SPECIAL PROJECTS EDITORWHEN she gave the inspirational talk at the launch of the Hotel Sales and Marketing Association’s (HSMA) 2nd Virtus Awards, Peggy Angeles spoke from the heart and...
View ArticleThe world according to a well-traveled hotelier
CHRISTINA ALPAD, STAFF WRITER PHOTOS BY RUY MARTINEZWhen a 24-year-old Frank Reichenbach learned that his first international posting in the hotel industry would be in the humble islands of the...
View ArticleRemembering the writers under martial law
F. SIONIL JOSE, NATIONAL ARTIST FOR LITERATURELast November (2007) , when we were finalizing plans for the 50th anniversary conference of the Philippine Center of International PEN, I thought of...
View ArticleApacible, Agoncillo museums modernized
Belly M. OtordozTAAL, Batangas: History loving patrons and onlookers would be transported back in time with the stereoscopic devices, photographs and touch screen terminals describing the rooms and...
View ArticleWhere heritage churches abound
May is a month of festivities and merriment but most importantly, the month of May has been declared as the National Heritage month, under Proclamation No. 439 in 2003. The Filipino Heritage Festival,...
View ArticleFilfest’s delightful mix
ROSALINDA L. OROSARosalinda L. Orosa Filfest, founded and headed by Vicky Zubiri, presented Myra Mae and Friends in operatic arias and Broadway songs. The cast consisted of Viva Voce singers Myra Mae...
View ArticleThe lackluster #VirtualJewelryExhibit
KATRINA STUART SANTIAGOKATRINA STUART SANTIAGO The Philippine Commission on Good Government (PCGG) finally came out with its promised exhibit of the Imelda Marcos jewels — which is a veritable and...
View ArticleBeauty Biz Bliss empowers moms
CARLA BIANCA V. RAVANESCARLA BIANCA V. RAVANES Mother’s Day in the Philippines is always a magical time especially now that mothers have changed from mere homemakers to superwomen who can do it all....
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