Filipinos have among the worst health habits in Asia, according to a new research from Sun Life Financial Asia covering eight major markets in Asia Pacific.
Rich Filipino women are probably the most meticulous about cleanliness and maintaining their looks in Southeast Asia, using approximately nine different brands of personal care products, the highest in the region.
When Grammy Award-winning jazz/rhythm and blues singer Patti Austin was asked to take part in a fundraising concert in the Philippines to shore up funds of Habitat for Humanity and help the survivors of supertyphoon “Yolanda,” she immediately responded with a resounding “yes.”
Songwriter and advertising man Dennis Garcia says that the main reason why the visual arts have yet to appeal to a large audience is that they are hard to understand.
Timely advice to single ladies: Attend your high school reunion; you just might find a new love there. Ask former Social Security System president Corazon de la Paz-Bernardo, who married high school classmate Enrique V. Bernardo, President and Commissioner of ANZ Bank in Jakarta, Indonesia, 51 years after they graduated from Rizal High School, once the world’s largest high school in terms of enrolment.
It may have been some 40 years since the seminal band Hotdog burst on the scene and served up music never before heard over Philippine airwaves, but the power of this group led by brothers Dennis and Rene Garcia to get people on their feet and dancing has hardly diminished.
Blame it on the Filipinos’ heightened interest in cooking shows and on the mushrooming of culinary schools all over the...
ALDRIN Comla and his wife, Rachelle Santos-Comla, were not really in the market for a new LCD television late last...
Award-winning singer and songwriter Noel Cabangon is adding another title to his name—author.
Jean-Paul “Bluey” Maunick of British group Incognito knew as early as 1975 when he watched the “Thrilla in Manila” starring Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier that the Philippines would be among the countries thathe would visit and bring his music to.
