M'LANG, North Cotabato (PNA) – Authorities arrested two suspects who allegedly raped and killed a 15-year-old girl in Barangay Lepaga here. Police Lt. Col. Realan Mamon, municipal police chief, identified the perpetrators as farmers Rogie Articonas Magallanes, 43, of Barangay Lepaga; and Nilo...
WALA LANG Gossiping oldies would warn each other that there was danger—that young blabbermouths were within earshot—and the topic had better be less juicy. Until the mid-1800s, Mindanao pirates preyed on coastal towns from the Ilocos in northern Luzon down to the Bicol region and all over the...
WALA LANG I suppose that in one’s senior years, one hopes to be mentally sound, to have good friends to bum around with, to have a large bank of happy memories, and have the joy of looking with pride at one’s children. For this article, the 600th of “Wala Lang,” I thought I’d share some...
WALA LANG Looks The Bisaya were called “pintados” for good reason. The author of the Boxer Codex’ chapter 5 admires their tattoos, “…done in the manner of illuminations, painting all parts of the body, such as the chest, stomach, legs, arms, shoulders, hands, and muscles …” Some had...
WALA LANG Conquistadors were busily conquering and frailes converting, but some scholarly types asked around and wrote about the land and the indios they found. In 1590, it was probably Governor General Luis Pérez Dasmariñas who got someone to summarize the most reliable accounts then available,...
WALA LANG OIL ON OAK Adoration of the Kings, Jan Gossaert (National Gallery of Art, London) The Three Kings arrived in Bethlehem bringing to the Child Jesus gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Everyone knows gold but frankincense and myrrh? Used in religious ceremonies, they came from faraway...
WALA LANG We hadn’t been together for going on three years now and so my family thought we needed revenge travel. We’re in diaspora, living in Spain, the US, Singapore, Makati, and QC with different work and school schedules so it took several months of Zoom discussions before a decision was...
Senator Imee Marcos releases PinakBEST , a book on Ilocano cooking, with touches of politics, the Filipino diaspora, life in Malacañang, the Marcos exile years, and more WALA LANG The transformation of greens, moos, meees, and oinks to the pleasures of taste and wonders of sight is the subject of...
WALA LANG HAIYAN CALAMITY Tacloban City, Leyte in the aftermath of Yolanda The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requires directors of listed companies to attend a corporate governance training program on topics selected by the company and conducted by accredited providers. The Governance...
WALA LANG The year after the stars and stripes were lowered in 1946, the Philippines and France established diplomatic relations. Various cultural events are marking the event’s 75th anniversary. Sponsored by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, the French Embassy and the Cultural...
WALA LANG With a bit of prodding, barbers can be loquacious. Ranny Perlas was late, he apologized, because he had to walk all the way from his apartment in Santa Ana to the Makati CBD barber shop. The previous week, he continued, he was waiting for the red light to change when a speeding car turned...
The secrets of the Malacañan Palace as told by someone who grew up there WALA LANG …‘mid pleasures and palaces, though not many can think of a palace as home. Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. is one of the few who can. His family moved there when he was eight years old and there he stayed in the...
