CARMONA, Cavite — The Philippine Football Federation (PFF) is set to have its new headquarters by next year here at Barangay Milagrosa. PFF president Nonong Araneta (center) leads the groundbreaking ceremony of the new PFF headquarters in Carmona, Cavite. (PFF) PFF president Mariano “Nonong”...
Plains and Prints’ collaborates with Rosanna Ocampo on an anniversary collection By Diann Calucin IT’S ALWAYS SUMMER IN HAVANA Rae Dennis, Emma Tiglao, Alexandra Rocha Araneta, Anne Curtis, Rosanna Ocampo, Roxanne Farillas, Juana Yupangco, Nicole Jacinto Gonzalez, Mikaela Lagdameo Martinez, and...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta If I were teaching the Rizal course as mandated by RA 1425, I would begin with how Rizal reacted to the most devastating crisis he had to face. Isn’t crisis management what we need most these days? In 1891, the Dominican Order of friars were the richest landowners...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta No, this is not about the intrepid Gringo Honasan who was at National Defense Minister J. Ponce Enrile’s side when the Marcos government was toppled by People Power in February 1986. Gringo also led a few coups d’etat against President Corazon Aquino which she...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta To this day, the Philippines is described as an agricultural country which is probably why the 17th president, Ferdinand Marcos, Jr, (PBBM) appointed himself Secretary of Agriculture. It happens to be an utterly sensitive sector of the national economy, the most...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta On June 30, the world around me unveiled an astounding mural of light and brilliant pigments splashed across the horizon. Gone was the subdued landscape of impressionist paintings with indeterminate brushstrokes in pastel shades. If the colors and myriad hues I now see...
All that turned heads at the presidential inauguration THE FINAL REVENGE OF THE TERNO The terno has been making a significant comeback as a symbol of Philippine national style and identity (Cover design by Jules Vivas, photo of Liza Araneta-Marcos' terno courtesy of Lesley Mobo) The...
BOCALA when she was freed by an Iloilo City court for the peace talks in Norway in 2016. (Tara Yap) ILOILO CITY – A court in Metro Manila has sentenced a high-ranking official of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) to life imprisonment for a 1975 murder. A Taguig...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta “The Lord gazes at the Philippine Islands:” In Spanish, “El Señor mira (contempla) a las islas Filipinas” is a satirically humorous piece, translated into English by Dr. Encarnacion Alzona in 1957 and included in “Rizal’s Prose” published by the Rizal...
President-elect Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. said he feels terrible for his wife Liza and their kids, for they are "forced" to leave their everyday life behind as he assumes the presidency on June 30. President-elect Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. feels bad for his family as they have to leave...
Novotel Manila Araneta City presents its first resident hotel services cloud, aptly named "My Novotel Manila Boutique." It is the first property of Accor in the Philippines and the first Novotel brand in Asia to develop an online ordering platform with a variety of hotel services ranging from...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta Like many of us today, Jose Rizal must have wondered whether the first batch of natives who were baptized knew what was going on. Language was a barrier; Spanish missionaries had not yet learned our native tongues, nor compiled those monumental glossaries and grammar...
