Philippine Airlines will launch a pioneering service between Manila and Toronto on Nov. 30, 2012, giving the flag carrier a direct link to Canada’s largest city and its first gateway on the vital East Coast of North America in 15 years.
Shadowed by the high-rises of Seoul’s wealthiest Gangnam district, Kim Bok-Ja, 75, pulls her trolley of folded cardboard through a shanty town that sits uncomfortably in one of Asia’s most developed cities.
Uruguayans used to call their country the Switzerland of Latin America, but its faded grey capital seems a bit more like Amsterdam now that its congress has legalized abortion and is drawing up plans to sell government-grown marijuana.
Once majestic, the ancestral houses in Quiapo have fallen to urban decay. The affluent families have moved to Makati, leaving the old residences in disrepair and often rented out to lower-income families.
The publication of “Regional Autonomy and Federalism: Concepts and Issues for the Bangsamoro Government” (MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology OVCRE-MMIDU, 2012, 152 pp) comes at a time when a more peaceful atmosphere is felt with the assumption into office by a new administration led by the son of late President Cory Aquino, who had laid the groundwork for peace in Mindanao during her term; and, the hostilities between the Philippine Armed Forces and the MILF in Mindanao have relatively scaled down, as more civil and nonbelligerent ways are considered in the attempt to bring an end to the Mindanao conflict.
In her short but fruitful life, filmmaker Marilou Diaz-Abaya (1955-2012) lived and breathed music, which was also an integral part of all her films.
The country will get to see its latest Bizet heroines—Camille Lopez Molina and Ana Feleo—when the Lyric Opera of the Philippines stages “Carmen” at St. Cecilia’s Hall of the St. Scholastica’s College this weekend (Oct. 26-28), under the direction of actor-director Laurice Guillen.
At first glance, one would think that the exhibit “Banzai,” at Galerie Joaquin in San Juan, is by a Japanese artist evidently because of the dominant geisha images and Nippongo figures depicted in every painting.
The Johann Strauss Society of the Philippines (JSSP) isn’t just for classical-music lovers but also for people who would like to support the arts and charities.
Author Matt Bondurant’s fictionalized account of his family, “The Wettest County in the World,” has become the Weinstein Company’s critically applauded epic gangster film “Lawless.”
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