Commuting in the Philippines can be a real challenge. Heavy traffic makes it difficult to get to your destination in time and booking a car is impossible, not to mention transportation fares getting more expensive by the day. In today's on-demand economy, convenience is the new currency. There's a...
THE RIGHT MOVE Rikki Mathay The first time people from my generation living in Metro Manila and nearby areas actually saw ashfall was way back in 1991. I remember being at the penthouse of my family's home, amused by the "fairydust-like" particles falling down from the sky, as I was blissfully...
Despite a strong campaign being mounted by the government and private business organizations, the Senate was still unable in its second attempt to concur with the ratification of mega trade deal Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). Given also the strong opposition from the...
For vice presidential candidate Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte, her "greatest asset" is neither has to do with smarts nor skills. Vice presidential candidate Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte (Noel Pabalate/ MANILA BULLETIN) It's what's she calls "tibay ng puso", or literally, the resilience of her...
TARLAC CITY, Tarlac--A Marcos has come to Tarlac. Is it for this reason that city Mayor Cristy Angeles described the UniTeam mini-rally here Saturday, April 2 as "history in the making". Presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos is stunned by the crowd's reception of him in Tarlac City during a...
THE RIGHT MOVE Rikki Mathay The Philippines has an average of 506 reported new Covid-19 infections in a day. This welcome decline in cases can be attributed to vaccination efforts with 67.4 percent of our population having been vaccinated, and now, we see children aged five to 11 years old...
As the nation marked the second anniversary of the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, it was announced that Metro Manila and 47 other areas will remain under the least restrictive Alert Level 1 until March 31. This move is beneficial to economic recovery. The full operation of...
THE RIGHT MOVE Rikki Mathay It is scorching hot nowadays. The intense heat seeps through the skin of anyone who goes outdoors at daytime. I haven't had the luxury of time to go to the beach but just the same, my tan now is deeper than before because of the daily house-to-house distribution of...
THE RIGHT MOVE RIKKI MATHAY I have men and women friends who are gay. Growing up, I saw them as only either gay or lesbian. But with the LGBTQ movement making its way into mainstream media in the past decades, many were introduced to the complexity of gender identification. LGBTQ is an acronym for...
THE RIGHT MOVE RIKKI MATHAY I started my official journey with the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) after I gave birth to my second child, Mischka back in 2009. One of the most fulfilling accomplishments I had with PRC is bringing together the residents of the upscale community, Barangay Greenhills, to...
THE RIGHT MOVE RIKKI MATHAY While maintaining relationships are already challenging as it is, couples working in the same office and even industry contend with twice the issues as more cases of breakups have been recorded among this group. That's why I find it inspirational to meet couples who work...
How to Move On in 30 Days, a YouTube exclusive, coming this 2022 For the first time in the Philippines, ABS-CBN, the country’s leading content provider, announced its partnership with YouTube to develop and produce a new original series that will stream exclusively on the video streaming...
