This is the story of a woman who brought her five children to America, flew to Kenya when they grew up, lost her “self” in Africa and found God.
The head of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) has asked policy-makers for support for the agency’s cultural development plan that would promote local creativity and boost tourism as an avenue for economic development.
One might hesitate to call it seduction, but that was exactly what happened when the Ayala Group feted delegates of the World Economic Forum (WEF) for East Asia and the Asean Business Club to a welcome reception on the eve of hard-nosed talks on current regional affairs.
We would not have been walking down Tanjong Pagar Road in the middle of the night, were it not for an expensive gift we accidentally left at Starbucks along Orchard Road in Singapore earlier that day.
Four sets of traditional native garb in varying shades of red project a commanding presence at the entrance to the permanent textile exhibit of the Museum of the People in Manila.
The Philippine Daily Inquirer has named a new Readers’ Advocate for fair, accurate and balance news. Appointed Readers’ Advocate—or news ombudsman—is professor Dr. Elena E. Pernia of the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication, who has over 20 years of experience in communication/media education, research, planning and evaluation.
Tucked in a dark shelf somewhere in the Archdiocesan Office of Communication of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Manila in Intramuros is a mint-condition back issue of Penthouse magazine.
Three weeks after the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NCHP) requested Msgr. Fred Madlangbayan to stop the construction of a building beside Taal Basilica, workers are still busy finishing the structure’s washroom.
Stray golf balls, catfish of unknown provenance, and a life-size statue of the scourged Jesus Christ that roams the grounds during the wee hours are just some of the stories told by residents inside the Bautista compound in Malabon.
One could tell that half of the selfies that will flood the Internet on Visita Iglesia this Holy Week will be taken in the renovated Manila Cathedral-Basilica of the Immaculate Conception.
