Maya Angelou, who rose from poverty, segregation and the harshest of childhoods to become a force on stage, screen, the printed page and the inaugural dais, has died. She was 86.
Senator Loren Legarda is proposing one more reason to have a marriage annulled in the Philippines – if both parties have been separated for at least five years.
Swimmers wanting to take the plunge this summer in Europe can do so safe in the knowledge that the continent’s 22,000 bathing destinations are getting cleaner.
From sunup to sundown, there is always something new to expect and something exciting to do on the huge waves and seemingly boundless shore of Bagasbas Beach here in Daet, whether it’s summer or not.
Ann Charleen “Cher” Tagle became an abaca entrepreneur through, pardon the pun, a complex weave of events. In 2009, as an employee of J. P. Morgan, the advertising graduate from Assumption jumped into the abaca business primarily to help an old friend, whose family had been active in the industry but had encountered some problems.
When Hindy Weber Tantoco and her family decided to trade the daily stress of living in the city for life on a farm, she didn’t expect to get bored, not even when the children were in school. She focused her energies on gradually turning their house—cleverly made out of container vans—into a home.
“How old is he/she?” I usually ask that whenever someone laments about how difficult it is to deal with the elderly. It can be a parent, aunt, uncle, neighbor, friend or maybe just someone they encountered.
The Russell Hobbs brand of small appliances may not be familiar to most Filipinos, but it is the United Kingdom’s No. 1 among kitchen appliances.
The City of Manila’s decision to regulate the operations of pedicabs, tricycles and kuliglig is long overdue. Although these modes of transport may be convenient for some, they contribute to traffic congestion and can cause major traffic accidents.
If there is anyone more emotional than the mother about having a new baby in the house, it is probably the couple’s older child or children.
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