Dubbed as “party island,” Boracay has been rated as Asia’s top beach destination for relaxation and spa treatment, third in nightlife entertainment, and the Philippines’ second top tourist destination, according to Agoda, an international hotel-booking website.
Someone is watching you. Look up—a little over to the left or right. On street corners and doorways. Sometimes from lampposts and walls. See those innocent-looking boxes, that glint of glass? They are closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras and they are everywhere.
KAWIT, Cavite—No one could ever know what went on inside Ronald Baquiran Bae’s head when he casually walked around his neighborhood and fired his gun indiscriminately, taking the life of eight innocent people. On January 4, around 9 a.m., this closely-knit community still recovering from the revelry of the New Year past, was greeted by [...]
Children who watch excessive amounts of television are more likely to have criminal convictions and show aggressive personality traits as adults, a New Zealand study has found.
A little past midnight on Nov. 6, two young women walked along Macapagal Boulevard in Pasay City, one of them—in a tank top and blue leggings-excited at the thought that she would be meeting a prospective client for another modelling stint.
For the national crime wave to stop. Filipinos may have gotten used to crime and violence that not many seem to have noticed there’s a crime wave sweeping the nation for some time now.
A tragic day it was. Just watching the news on TV and skimming through articles of this shocking massacre that happened at Sandy Hook Elementary School, I could imagine the trauma that the teachers and kids who survived will go through. Those sweet innocent kids will be scarred for life.
A bag of puto bumbong (purple rice cakes) helped investigators track down the killers of 20-year-old Cyrish Magalang, who had bought the steamed delicacy as pasalubong on the night she was murdered.
On October 2, Joanne Lourdes Reyes, a 20-year-old information technology student of the University of Sto. Tomas (UST), went to the Far Eastern University (FEU) along Morayta in Manila for what she thought would be a pleasant experience.
Belize, a tropical tourist paradise, is developing a dark side and turning into a transit point for the trafficking of drugs bound for the United States.
The circumstances were so similar that police investigators and headline writers couldn’t resist describing the murder victim as “Ang babae sa septic tank.” After all, a movie of the same title had become a big hit, an improbable black comedy that won for its female lead an international award.
