There’s an abundance of luck and love in the air this February, as we in the east end of the map celebrate two major events: Chinese New Year and Valentine’s Day. The Outlet People, Inc. (TOP), the company behind sneaker and athleisure brands, Capital and Forum Outlet Stores, gets in on the...
More funding and resources will be poured in to the education system in the country in 2023 to ensure that Filipino learners are not left behind if presidential aspirant Vice President Leni Robredo wins the presidency in May. Vice President Leni Robredo (Photo courtesy of the OVP) Speaking at the...
Screenshot from PSA Forum Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) president Bambol Tolentino said retaining the overall title or even placing second in the 31st Southeast Asian Games in Vietnam will be challenging for our national athletes. “Kaya naman nating i-defend ang title natin, but it’s going...
OFW Forum Jun Concepcion Ending the continuing physical and sexual abuses of Filipino women across the Middle East doesn’t require rocket science. Even in the absence of comprehensive empirical data, it is fairly easy to deduce and conclude what should have been clear as daylight to the...
OFW Forum Jun Concepcion Governor Benjamin Diokno said last month that the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas would conduct an investigation into complaints of dozens of Banco de Oro depositors who claimed to have lost varied sums in their savings accounts. BDO, the country’s largest universal bank, has...
PSC chairman Butch Ramirez Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) chairman Butch Ramirez broached the possibility of a reconciliation between Olympian pole vaulter EJ Obiena and the Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association (Patafa) following their dispute on liquidation records. “Sabi ni...
OFW FORUM Jun Concepcion Understandably, advocates of the rights and welfare of overseas Filipino workers, notably Eli Mua in Saudi Arabia, cheered President Rodrigo Duterte’s signing on Dec. 29 of a new law that creates a new department exclusively for overseas Filipinos. They believe firmly...
Update your look for 2022 from the bottom up; start with these shoes that celebrate cultures across Southeast Asia NEW SHOES UltraBOOST DNA City Pack What we wear and how we look has an impact on our mindsets. Moving forward to the new year, we aspire to renew ourselves. An easy first step to our...
OFW Forum President Duterte’s signing on Dec. 29 of a law that created the Department of Migrant Workers brought lots of joy and hope to advocates of the rights and welfare of overseas Filipino workers, notably Eli Mua in Saudi Arabia. Hope that after more than 50 years of deploying workers to...
OFW FORUM Nora M, 42, a single mother who hails from Negros Occidental, is now seriously considering returning home for good. She’s been away from home for 24 years while at work as a domestic helper in Hong Kong. The time seems ripe for her to quit her P30,000-a-month helper’s job and rejoin...
OFW FORUM Much to his credit, Saudi Arabia-based Eli Mua is unrelenting and tireless in his single-minded crusade for the proposed Department of Overseas Filipino Workers (DOFW) to be established before President Rodrigo Duterte bows out of office in June next year. A Mindanaoan like Duterte, Mua...
Filipino chemist Dr. Angel T. Bautista VII has been recognized by the Japanese government for his research on a project seeking to assess the radioactive contamination from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident to the Philippines by looking at Iodine-129 content in coral cores along...
