K-pop boy band Seventeen The 8 tested positive for Covid-19, becoming the seventh member of the group to catch the disease in three weeks. Pledis Entertainment made the announcement on March 7. (Clockwise from top left) Seventeen's The 8, Seungkwan, DK, S.Coups, Hoshi, Vernon and Wonwoo (Instagram)...
Muntinlupa Mayor Jaime Fresnedi refuted claims by his detractors that the city government already used a P1.2 billion standby loan from Landbank of the Philippines. In March 2021, the Muntinlupa City Council passed an ordinance authorizing Fresnedi to enter into a loan agreement with Landbank in...
Honor Swinton-Byrne and Tilda Swinton in The Souvenir Part 2 The two streaming options today both have women as the central character of their respective storylines. One is a Crime novel adaptation that’s been turned into a Netflix Limited Series, while the second is a sequel of sorts to a film...
WALA LANG General Pedro G. Dumol invited me to be on the Board of the National Electrification Administration when I was B.A. Professor at U.P. That was in the early 1970s when NEA, newly created by President Ferdinand E. Marcos, was actively organizing cooperatives to bring electricity to...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye Until recently, my knowledge of Ukraine (Crimea in particular) was limited to what I picked up in high school. My English teacher, who also happened to be my mother, Sofia Rivera Bunye, asked her class to memorize “Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred Lord...
An official of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has asked priests not to allow themselves to be used for partisan politics. Fr. Jerome Secillano (Screenshot/Radio Veritas) "We should never allow ourselves to be used as tools for partisan politics," Fr. Jerome Secillano,...
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Dr. Jun Ynares “How does it feel to get older?” That was the question a number of friends and peers in the local government sector asked me a few days ago as I celebrated another birthday last week. They said they wanted to know how it felt for me to be getting closer to the...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House As of this writing, delegations from Moscow and Kyiv, respectively, were scheduled to meet in Belarus for a second round of negotiations on the raging military hostilities in Ukraine. Although their first meeting did not produce a...
Heard It Through the GripeVine: Our New Abnormal As I mentioned last Sunday, the first ever awardees for the Manila Bulletin UPLIFT Awards have been informed of their distinctions; and in honor of Women’s Month, I first went through the woman awardees - who came from the categories of Sports...
REFLECTIONS TODAY Lk 4:1-13 Filled with the Holy Spirit, Jesus returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the desert for forty days, to be tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they were over he was hungry. The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God,...
It is hard to imagine living in a place where one is far from the necessities of modern life. With the lessons brought forth by the pandemic, accessibility becomes primordial when it comes to considering one’s address, as being at the center of everything does not only make life easier, but also...
Actor Park Seo-joon, who starred in the Korean drama “Itaewon Class,” flew to Hungary to film his movie. His agency, Awesome Entertainment, announced last March 3 that Park Seo-joon went to Hungary for the filming of the Korean movie “Dream” in which he co-stars with singer IU. Korean...
