OF TREES AND FOREST Former Senate President Manny Villar Have you ever taken a vacation in a place that is rural, rustic and very provincial? You wake up to the crowing of the rooster, you have freshly opened coconut juice for breakfast, and you just lounge around all day in a place where time...
Smart Omega Call of Duty: Mobile (CODM) team finally got their visa application approved last Monday, Dec. 5, in time for the CODM World Championships in North Carolina, US slated December 15-18, 2022. Smart Omega CODM at the Batasang Pambansa The team got a massive boost last month after getting...
AFP/File LONDON, United Kingdom – New York and Singapore are jointly the world's most expensive cities after inflation soared this year, an annual survey showed Thursday. The pair displaced last year's number one Tel Aviv, which fell to third place this time round in the Worldwide Cost of...
Transportation Secretary Jaime Bautista said the goal now of his agency is to make the Philippines "the Maritime Capital of the World by supplying the "seafarers of choice for the global maritime industry." Bautista, who announced his department's goal Wednesday, Nov. 23, noted there over 600,000...
The Philippines bagged the highly-coveted World's Leading Dive Destination and the Leading Beach Destination for 2022, the Department of Tourism (DOT) announced on Tuesday, Nov. 15. DOT Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco said the two awards were given during the 29th World Travel Award (WTA) held in...
THE faculty and staff of the Malitbog National High School in Calinog, Iloilo. (DepEd-6 photo) ILOILO CITY – A public school in Iloilo is one of the three schools in the country vying for the World’s Best School Prize of T4 Education, a global education organization. Malitbog National High...
TOKYO, Japan – A Japanese woman certified the world's oldest person has died at the age of 119, local officials said Monday. This picture taken on March 9, 2019 and received by Jiji Press on April 25, 2022 shows the world's oldest person, Japanese woman Kane Tanaka who was born on January 2,...
Forbes magazine has named 20 Filipinos in its 36th Annual World’s Billionaires List with real estate and retail tycoon Manuel B. Villar Jr. still the wealthiest in the Philippines for the fourth year in a row. The youngest Filipino to top the list of the country’s wealthiest, Villar was only 69...
The metaverse is a complex topic. This emerging multisensory iteration of the web is a concept that has been heavily discussed by tech industry leaders, Satya Nadella of Microsoft as well as Mark Zuckerberg of Meta (formerly known as Facebook). Now, everyone’s talking about this infinitely...
The Philippines has once again named as the leading dive destination in the world during the World Travel Awards 2021, the Department of Tourism (DOT) announced. A diver swims past a coral reef off the coast of Escaño Beach in Barangay Piapi, Dumaguete City in an undated photo. On Monday (Sept....
In this file photo taken on May 18, 2021 a general overhead view shows Israel’s Mediterranean city of Tel Aviv. (Photo by Gil COHEN-MAGEN / AFP) LONDON, United Kingdom -- Tel Aviv is the world's most expensive city to live in as soaring inflation has pushed up living costs globally, according to...
Weddings then and now WALA LANG “Kumare, nais na yatang manahimik nitong dalawa,” began my mother-in-law to be, Conchita Hidalgo-Sandoval, as Alice and I sat there silently. My mother and I had come to her Makati home to formally ask for her hand, the ancient Filipino pamanhikan. It was so...
