Bali: A haven for addiction recovery
Bali has begun to attract drug and alcohol addicts for its rehabilitation centers.
Bali has begun to attract drug and alcohol addicts for its rehabilitation centers.
AS THE sun sets on the ridge in Baguio, Robin, a 27-year-old balikbayan from Canada, sits in the living room of a mid-century house, keeping track of the daily death count of President Duterte’s war on drugs.
AS PRESIDENT Duterte’s war on drugs intensifies, hordes of substance abusers around the country have voluntarily surrendered to the police, showing remorse and willingness to undergo rehabilitation.
IN THE 1990s, I saw Chinese pianist Fou Ts’ong at the Metropolitan (Met) Theater of Manila. Fou was a close friend of pianist Martha Argerich, who had also performed at
DANTE Basanta will never forget the day a balikbayan approached him to ask if the plane that brought him back to Manila landed at the right airport.
It’s been a year since the Super Typhoon “Yolanda/ Haiyan” hit the country and killed more than 6,000 and affected 16 million. Many of the survivors are still displaced, living in bunkhouses without prospects for employment.
Six months after super typhoon “Yolanda” ravaged Samar and Leyte with relentless ferocity, the multi-purpose hall in Barangay Sulod, Basey, Samar remains in abject disrepair.
Making rubber band bracelets may just a hobby for many children but not for two young kids who managed to raise $100,000 for “Yolanda” victims in Leyte.
To help in the psychological rehabilitation of communities hit by disasters last years, the National Commission for the Culture and the Arts (NCCA) Committee on Dramatic Arts held Theater on the Edge at the municipalities of Dauis and Loon in Bohol during the recent National Arts Month.
In this rare instance, you are at a loss for words, or even thoughts. You are overwhelmed by images of destruction and tragedy which aren’t newsreels from some remote place abroad. They are from right here, at home, and somehow, you know of at least one person who is a casualty of this disaster.
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