Around the world, the celebration of Christmas Day 2022 will be defined by tradition and change. After two years of muted Christmas activities, people have brought back everything about Christmas as we celebrated it before the pandemic. In the past weeks, despite the rising prices of fuel, food and...
After reaping backlash from the public, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) on Friday, Dec. 2, ordered a moratorium on its scheduled crackdown of sellers of imported pink salmon, pompano, and other frozen fish products in public markets. BFAR Assistant Director for Administrative...
The Itchyworms has just made available on vinyl their "After All This Time” album released originally in 2013. The band -- bassist-singer Kelvin Yu, guitarist-keyboardist-vocalist Jugs Jugueta and drummer-vocalist-keyboardist Jazz Nicolas launched the vinyl at Backspacer Records in Kapitolyo,...
• The Clean Air Act aims to ensure a “balanced and healthful ecology” for all Filipinos, in tune with “the rhythm and harmony of nature,” emphasizing the “polluters must pay” principle. • The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) acts as the...
People from the Korean entertainment industry voted to pick the singer of the year and song of the year for 2022. In celebration of its 18th anniversary, Korean media outlet Joy News 24 conducted a survey from Sept. 19 to Oct. 4 among 200 entertainment industry workers including employees of...
The plenary hall of the House of Representatives is sporting a new look in time for President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr.'s first State of the Nation Address (SONA) on July 25. House Secretary General Mark Llandro Mendoza led on Wednesday, July 20, the unveiling of the newly-renovated plenary...
WALA LANG I spent so much time on election night keeping track of the count and along the way reading Facebook posts of both Pinks and Reds. The temperature was obviously high, carried over from the campaign period when strangers insulted strangers, friends unfriended friends, siblings disowned...
The recent de-escalation of alert levels in various parts of the country is a sign that things may go back to (new) normal. A lot of Filipinos celebrated this pandemic freedom by flocking to malls, restaurants, parks, and shops. Amid our relief, however, some areas around the world are still not...
Fiji Blue Los Angeles based duo Fiji Blue have gotten a lot of international recognition for the release of their track “Flower in the Dark”. From their track “It Takes Two” that was used in the film, “After We Fell,” which was released on Netflix. Valentin Fritz and Trevor Dering met...
Editorial The spirit of volunteerism has again been sparked by a natural disaster. Even before Typhoon Odette island-hopped in Mindanao and Visayas with destructive strength of Signal No. 4, volunteers had already started assisting efforts to feed and shelter people in many communities predicted to...
In June, Executive Order 141 declares prevention of teen pregnancies a ‘national priority’ NEW LIFE A mother holding the hand of her newborn for the first time A survey showed that only 13 percent of 500 young women in the Philippines have knowledge of emergency contraceptive (EC) pills or the...
The Duterte administration will go after Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corp. if it has indeed cheated the government of the taxes it should pay. President Rodrigo Duterte (Malacañang photo) Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque gave this guarantee during a virtual press conference Friday, Oct. 29,...
