By JACQUELINE LUCERO Photo: www.freepik.com As the holidays draw near, we often find ourselves swept up in the excitement of finding the perfect gifts for those we hold dear. The search for something special can feel like a quest to show our love, gratitude, and care....
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...
It may surprise many people that there is such a day as “World Kindness Day” – and that is today, Nov. 13. In the Filipino culture, kindness is a value that is known by many names, one of them “bayanihan.” Since the Philippines is located on the typhoon belt, where typhoons blow in at...
Former Anakalusugan Party-list Rep. Mike Defensor stated for the record Thursday, Aug. 11 that the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) "sought his assistance" on traffic issues. Mike Defensor (left) and Juan Ponce Enrile (Facebook, Malacañang) "I am an official nor a consultant of...
Striking balance between traditional and new media as platforms to educate the youth with values ALIEN CAT Heneral Tuna, the protagonist of the animated series of the same name Some psychologists believe that values are impossible to teach. Telling kids to be honest, considerate, or diligent would...
In light of recent Typhoon Odette (Rai), McDonald’s Philippines, through its charity of choice, Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC), has committed to serve an additional 120,000 meals from its initial pledge of 20,000, through the generosity of its partners, Megaworld, Emperador Distillers,...
DRIVING THOUGHTS Pinky Concha Colmenares Today is a good day to start a promise – to do at least one act of random kindness. It can be an act of generosity, like paying for the purchase of a poor old person in a drug store. It can be an act to give joy, like buying a can of ice cream for a family...
The influential Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC) has become a moral compass for Filipinos as well as a beacon of hope as the nation battles the coronavirus pandemic, according to Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo. Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo (File photo: Malacañang) In...
Award-winning Filipino-Australian writer Dr. Merlinda Bobis has successfully launched her book, “The Kindness of Birds”, at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra during the celebration of the 75 th anniversary of the establishment of Philippines Australia diplomatic relations last week....
Helps out Lolo Alejandro, a deaf and mute barber They may come from different backgrounds, but a group of bikers have come together to help out Lolo Alejandro—who is a deaf and mute but still goes around Iloilo City using a rickety bicycle to eke out a living during this pandemic. Lolo Alejandro...
There’s another incident of fake booking in food delivery recently. In the video uploaded by Paulino Baro Collo Jr. on Facebook, a delivery rider was seen crying because the food he bought got canceled. Also a delivery rider, Paulino comforted him and offered to buy the food....
There’s a great need for companies and private institutions to empower their female employees by providing programs that will help them cope in these very trying times SHE CARES Female team members of Telus PH at a volunteering activity One year in the world’s longest lockdown, our country and...
