Young PH company wins FedEx Access Award in Japan
Teenage entrepreneurs comprising the Filipino student company Hiraya have won the FedEx Access Award at the JA Asia Pacific Company of the Year Competition finals in Tokyo, Japan. The FedEx Access...
View ArticleHealthier, fitter Philippines by 2020
A fitter citizenry means a healthier nation. This in mind, a group of health-conscious individuals set the National Weight Loss Challenge: a program that aims to have at least a million fit Filipinos...
View ArticleJaneena Chan on battling Bell’s Palsy with faith
It was in 2013 when I first came across the energetic Janeena Chan. It was a given that she was beautiful but what surprised me was her genuinely happy personality. You see in the world of social...
View ArticleDalawang Tula
Kinalaunan Patak, patak—sa pagdilat ay Walang humpas na tukso At kiliti na pinigil ng dulo ng labi Di maiwasan ang pag awas Na dulot ng mga patak Malala sa mabigat na tubig alon Ang salita na di...
View ArticleMade in the Philippines
(An Ekphrastic Poem) I am body, mind and soul Made in the Philippines, Vicariously reassembled In Hollywood and Disney Land, Physically transplanted In the Statue of Liberty’s Verdigris-patinated arms,...
View ArticleMoses (Part1)
{i} he was master with the master, who ordered that his heart be carved in the triangle of its own substance:—the stone’s confusion of the eternal with its own immobility, the dead perfection of the...
View ArticleA nationalistic exhibit from Rachy Cuna
An installation of 30 bamboo poles topped by slightly bent salakots that painted in the colors of the Philippine flag; a stylized orange table with white plates, glasses, a pitcher, lamp, and kaldero;...
View ArticleChristian love means being inconvenienced for another
CARLA BIANCA RAVANES-HIGHAM It has been almost three years since I was given the beautiful opportunity to share the stories of others through this column. Those three years have brought me great joy...
View ArticleNAMYCA holds Independence Day concert
Winners of the National Music Competitions for Young Artists (NAMCYA) rekindle the ideas and emotions brought about by our fight for freedom with their rendition of well-loved Filipino classics today...
View ArticleRep’s stars and alumni gather for 50th anniversary
To celebrate Repertory Philippines’ 50th year anniversary, the theater company’s stars and acclaimed alumni will #ComeHomeToREP for the grand one-night-only musical extravaganza “Rep’s 50 Years of...
View ArticleChef Tatung Sarthou creations at Diamond Hotel’s Filipino Food Festival
In celebration of unity and Philippine Independence, Diamond Hotel Philippines recently launched its Filipino Food Festival dubbed as “Philippine Archipelago” featuring celebrity chef Tatung Sarthou....
View ArticleChef Myke ‘Tatung’ Sarthou’s independent taste
The celebration of Philippine inde-pendence is once again at hand. Tomorrow marks the 119th commemoration of the country’s declaration of independence from Spain on June 12, 1898. While our forefathers...
View Article‘Short+Sweet’ film fest extends deadline
A first of its kind, the Philippine edition of the international movement “Short+Sweet” has brought its inaugural film format in Manila. Short+Sweet is the biggest 10-minute performing arts festival in...
View ArticleNick Lizaso assumes CCP presidency
Long-time Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) trustee Arsenio “Nick” Lizaso has been appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte as the new president of the country’s leading temple of the arts, and...
View Article5th Philippine Harvest rolls out at BGC
The richness and diversity of the country’s organic, artisanal, natural and indigenous agricultural products take the limelight once again as the fifth leg of Philippine Harvest rolls out at Central...
View ArticleMuntinlupa school gets mobile computer laboratory
Muntinlupa National High School-Tunasan Annex has received a donation of an e-learning package that includes a digital cart, Genyo e-Learning (Genyo), and a set of Android tablets called YoPad. It is...
View ArticleFond memories of dad
CARLA BIANCA RAVANES-HIGHAM “I’ve had a hard life, but my hardships are nothing against the hardships that my father went through in order to get me to where I started.” – Bartrand Hubbard One of my...
View ArticleNoontime show scholars finish degrees, some with honors
The country’s longest-running show “Eat Bulaga” launched a scholarship program in time of its 30th year anniversary in 2009 for outstanding elementary school students all over the country who don’t...
View Article30 beauties vie for Miss Manila 2017
Now on its fourth year, the Miss Manila 2017 pageant was launched at the Manila Hotel just before the weekend in the lead up to the city’s founding celebration on June 24. A joint project of the City...
View ArticleMoses (Part 2)
Continued from last week {ii} Anguish in the Desert i am the accursed murderer of the gods and all that is left in me of the granite is its wounded nothingness. one by one i ripped with my bare hands...
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