NOV. 15: My neighbor’s housekeeper had been despondent for days, sleepless and unable to eat, with the news that her eldest son, who is 19 years old, had disappeared without a trace in the eye of the Tacloban storm. She had planned to make the 22-hour trip by bus to try to find him over the weekend.
We just celebrated the 70th anniversary of the historical landing in Leyte. Has it been that long? Unlike with more recent headline events, there are not too many people I can ask, “Where were you when it happened?”
On the day a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck Cebu and Bohol, these islands landed in the Top 5 Islands in Asia list of Conde Nast Traveler magazine.
“Foodprints” was scheduled to do a show in Ormoc, Leyte, which is two hours from Tacloban. I was looking forward to something else, though: the food in Otso Otso restaurant in Tacloban. We had such a healthy and memorable meal here last time that I never forgot it.
This story ends with a family reunion. But it revolves around a man who made the reunion possible—by hand-carrying 18 liters of diesel to destinations guided only by cell phone numbers, in the chaos and trauma following Supertyphoon “Yolanda’s” destruction of the Visayas.
This past week, we have seen pictures of tragedy, the specter of death and the face of despair. The images are impossible to ignore. It is difficult to find words to describe the horror that thousands lived through when “nature went crazy.”
At the Peta Festival of Windows, an astonishing display of fresh and creative cultural flowering from outside Manila
While many young women from privileged families would grace society magazines that depict their glamorous lifestyles and careers, Ma. Michelle...
Cupid’s arrow has found its mark in the grieving hearts of two persons in the crucible of death and destruction in the wake of Super Typhoon Yolanda in Palo, Leyte.
Performers from the San Jose National High School danced their way to victory as they clinched the Grand Prize in...
