As Filipino culture becomes more popular overseas, young Filipinos are at the forefront, er, back office of this push, making sure our voice is heard or—better yet—understood HOW DO YOU SAY P*NYETA? This scene from the film Heneral Luna is a perfect example of English reading clunkier than a...
Never too young to save the oceans DEEP DIVE Marine life is beautiful, let's keep it that way (Ferdinand Edralin for Oceana) Even at a very young age, Alexandra Cousteau, granddaughter of renowned undersea explorer and scuba diving pioneer Jacques Cousteau, already knew the potential of the youth...
The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) will once again breathe life into Filipino folk tales through an online storytelling event in time with the celebration of this year’s “Buwan ng Wika.” (Photo from National Commission for Culture and the Arts) The program, dubbed “Sa...
A Filipino was allowed by the Taliban to get his fellow Filipinos who were stranded at two embassies in Afghanistan. Photo from Elmer Presa's Facebook account/ MANILA BULLETIN Elmer Presa, an overseas Filipino worker, said no other drivers had dared to pick up the other Filipinos stranded at the...
One out of five Filipino pregnant and lactating women exhibited insufficient iodine nutrition, based on the results of the Department of Science and Technology–Food and Nutrition Research Institute’s (DOST-FNRI) 2018-2019 Expanded National Nutrition Survey (ENNS). (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)...
A 32-year-old overseas Filipino worker in Dubai was named one of the Top 100 healthcare leaders in the emirate. Dan Lester Dabon, chief executive officer and founder of DLD Healthcare Consulting Service, was conferred with the Top 100 Healthcare Leaders Award by the International Forum on...
Two men, including a Filipino, were victims of a homophobic attack in Birmingham’s Gay Village in the United Kingdom on August 15. Rob and Patrick, both in their 30s, were outside a bar in Birmingham’s Gay Village on Saturday night when four men on board a black SUV shouted homophobic remarks...
"After I was assaulted in the subway, natatakot na akong maglakad at iniisip ko baka bugbugin ako." Potri Ranka Manis, a nurse and founder of Kinding Sindaw folk dance group, sustained bruises on her face and body after she was assaulted by two individuals while distributing masks to subway...
Filipino students represented the country in the 2021 Asia Student Leadership Conference. (Photo from iACADEMY) Two Filipino students from a Makati-based school represented the Philippines during the Asia Student Leadership Conference 2021 hosted by Smile Asia Organization in Singapore. Third-year...
Filipinos ranked third among the ethnicities that have become victims of hate crimes directed against Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States, according to the latest report released by Stop AAPI Hate, a broad coalition that gathers data on racially motivated attacks related to the...
A 21-year-old math wizard believes that math can be used to solve real-life problems, even in lessening the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. Farrell Eldrian Wu in front of the Maclaurin Buildings of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge "I figure out the interventions...
Get to know the filmmaker behind the country’s longest and slowest films GRAY AREA Melancholia starring Angeli Bayani and Perry Dizon Lav Diaz sent to Manila Bulletin Lifestyle a short anecdote on a local film that influenced him the most. He described the night in the mid-1970s when he was going...
