Practical strategies for parents to help their children learn when the school year begins again, from a public school teacher By Khristian Ross Pimentel Parents, guardians, siblings, and other family members have an important calling this pandemic. We must all help teach our children. But teaching...
GET SCHOOLED A teaching fellow based in Cagayan de Oro conducting an online class as a way to adapt to the new normal in education (Photo courtesy of Teach for the Philippines) One of the incalculable losses of the Covid-19 pandemic is in how children and teenagers have, in many ways, been forced...
An Addie SyCip Cukingnan solo exhibit for the benefit of International Care Ministries In a time when the world is in disarray and so many people need help, it is hard to know where to even begin to make a difference. For artist Addie SyCip Cukingnan , she looked to her hands, the artistry in her...
BTS (Big Hit Entertainment) K-pop boy band BTS achieved another Guinness World Records title just a little over two weeks after setting one for their online concert. This time, the seven-member idol group’s “Map of the Soul: 7” set the title for the best-selling album in South...
The 49-year-old British-Filipino is also remembered as an unsung hero of British wrestling CONDOLENCES Elisar was a victim of cancer We've only recently heard of the passing of Elisar Cabrera , the son of National Artist for the Visual Arts Benedicto Cabrera or Bencab and his ex-wife, journalist,...
World champion gymnast Carlos Yulo (MB File Photo) The Manny V. Pangilinan Sports Foundation has extended additional funding of P800,000 to Olympic gymnast Carlos Yulo to cover his training expenses in preparation for next year’s Tokyo Games. The amount will be given to the Gymnastics Association...
Taylor Swift Taylor Swift dropped a bomb recently with the announcement and release of album “Folklore” on the same day. The set is a collection of 16 tracks penned by the 30-year old singer-songwriter and produced with long-time collaborator Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner (of The National) in...
PEACE-MAKER We wish to pay tribute to the late senator and foreign affairs secretary Raul Manglapus, whose 21 st death anniversary last July 25 we quietly commemorated. We were in Carmel, California in 1998, having accepted an invitation to speak at a forum organized by Paul Burgess Fay Jr. who...
'Concern is on contact sports,' says PSC's nat'l training director Velasco In this file photo, national team boxer Carlo Paalam trains in preparation for the 2019 Southeast Asian Games. (MB File Photo) The Joint Administrative Order (JAO), made up of the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC), Games...
The Brightlights (Facebook) A group composed of four-Filipino teens living in Ireland are competing at the 24th Annual World Championships of Performing Arts (WCOPA) in Anaheim, California. The Brightlights are composed of Joshua Regala, Marby Arriola, Fiona Cassandra Vargas, and Gwenaelle Noval....
Mon Confiado in a scene from 'Golden Holiday' The screening of three international films wait in the wings for Mon Confiado. On Instagram, the 52-year-old actor posted a photo of himself while doing the South Korean action-adventure-crime film "The Golden Holiday" directed by Kim Bong-han. The...
(Clockwise from top) Top K-dramas 'Crash Landing on You,' 'The World of the Married' and 'Itaewon Class' (tvN / JTBC) “Crash Landing on You” of tvN and “The World of the Married” and “Itaewon Class” of JTBC became the overall most talked about Korean dramas in the first half of the...
