"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...
Truth to tell, I like Filipinas. There’s elegance to it, not to mention nostalgia. But I’ve never used it to refer to my country. I’d hear it in old, rare, trilingual Filipino movies, in which the characters would speak in Filipino, American English, and a smattering of Spanish. I was born...
NGITING TAGUMPAY A colorized photo of Jose Rizal by artist collective Kulay Colorization. The hero seemingly in a state of kilig On a scale of one to 10, how proficient are you in the Filipino language? While it may be true that majority of Pinoys are English speakers in this day and age, life gets...
Classroom teaching and learning before the COVID-19 pandemic. (RIO DELUVIO / MANILA BULLETIN / FILE PHOTO) For Education Secretary Leonor Briones, the biggest challenge in the education sector to date is quality. During the public forum entitled “Revisiting the EDCOM of 1991: Continuities and...
The demand for Filipino nurses abroad continues to increase amid the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. (File photo/Malacañang) Saudi Arabia is willing to accept more Filipino nurses, recognizing their valued skills, according to Foreign Affairs...
Archiving our native languages is critical in sustaining our cultural heritage for future Filipinos By Loren Legarda THIS WEEK IN PANORAMA In observance of Buwan ng Wika, let's talk about language, the over 130 Philippine languages, of which many are endangered. Cover illustration by Jc Fermante...
Balik Scientists. Balik Puso. Balik Pilipinas. (Photos from DOST) Seven Filipino virologists who were trained abroad responded to the call of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) to be part of the first-of-its-kind Virology and Vaccine Institute of the Philippines or VIP. As they are...
During the celebration of the United Nations (UN) International Youth Day, youth leaders on Thursday, Aug. 12, urged their fellow youth to make it more “meaningful” by acknowledging situations and barriers that affect young people. Photo shows Filipino youth leaders attending a...
