What once was the dusty backwoods in the northern reaches of the Davao region is now a commercial and cultural hub: Tagum City, home of the country’s fastest-growing arts festival, Musikahan sa Tagum.
Lighted pyramids and cathedrals, glittering temples and pagodas, glowing lanterns and Disneyland characters—they came together to bathe this city in light and color as the Christmas season officially began here on Saturday night.
Twelve thousand people braved the early morning drizzle to take part with the Athletes in Action during the Fila’s Schools Run for School Rooms, dahlings.
Fortune Life recently marked the second anniversary of its advocacy, “The Value of Hard Work and Discipline.”
Things have become better for Lamitan in Basilan since the siege in 2001. It seems to have recovered from the incident and a host of socio-economic problems it suffered in the past.
In New York City last week, a pair of Filipino artists opened a joint exhibit at the Philippine Center right smack on Fifth Avenue.
Two giant acacia trees are the basis for the design of Centrio, the upcoming Ayala mall and mixed-use development at the heart of Cagayan de Oro City.
The Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (Rafi) held its 5th Triennial Awards at the ballroom of Marco Polo Plaza Hotel. The awards are granted every three years to an exemplary individual and an outstanding institution in the Visayas and Mindanao. Intense research and deliberation are involved to come up with five finalists.
The Mindanao floods and their rising death toll (957 as of this writing) and their terrible damage to property and resources may have dampened the Christmas cheer. But paradoxically, it is compelling people to return to the simplicity of Christmas and elicited another form of downpour—a downpour of charity and giving.
Almost an hour after abandoning the highway, we veer off the dirt road and bump our way into a dizzying network of mountainside roads that are little more than motorbike paths which try out one’s patience and plunge breathlessly into brooks (yes, no bridge to cross) that all too suddenly gurgle merely in one’s fond memory. And then, as we lurch down a steep embankment, the destination unfurls itself grudgingly, like a well-kept secret—a picturesque valley lapped by a tongue of riverine lushness. This is the hideaway of Mindanao’s well-loved beauty queen-turned-prayer warrior Maria Salome Salcedo-Aquino.
The Mindanao edition of Cine Europa 14 was recently staged at Liceo University in Cagayan de Oro City. The flagship film festival of the European Union Delegation to the Philippines was started in 1998 as a gift of the EU to the Philippines in time for the Philippine Centennial—the centenary of Philippine independence. Cine Europa [...]
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