Some areas in Antipolo City and Cainta, Rizal will experience water service interruptions for up to eight hours from July 10 to 11. Manila Water announced that the water interruption will affect some parts of Antipolo City namely Barangays Mambugan, Muntindilaw and Sta. Cruz; and portions of...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta Suddenly, there were no more coups d’etat. Although President Fidel V. Ramos (FVR) won 23.58 percent of electoral votes in the 1992 elections, the country seemed to have breathed a sigh of relief. How reassuring that perennial destabilizers, mutineers and plotters,...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza With a new government under a new president, and the past staying in the past, it’s a useful exercise nonetheless to glance back and see how far we’ve come since the last two-and-a-half years. (I for one cannot imagine what those early Covid-19 times would’ve been...
President Duterte said Filipinos should remember Philippine culture and history as honoring historical figures will encourage the people to honor modern-day heroes. President Duterte (Malacañang photo) Duterte said this during the 501st anniversary of the Victory at Mactan and the closing of the...
Water is life. So, if water is life, then easy access to fresh water is a basic right that each and every person in this world must enjoy. The reality, however, is far from it. United Nations data revealed that 2.2 billion people in the world have no access to safe water. It is an alarming number...
Bea Alonzo and Alden Richards (GMA) Kapuso stars Alden Richards and Bea Alonzo will star in the remake of the popular Korean television series "Start-Up." The new Kapuso project was officially announced on "24 Oras" on March 4. The Netflix drama series tells about young entrepreneurs aspiring to...
February 25, 1986. The day Filipinos reclaimed their long-lost freedom. After three days of a mass gathering of hundreds of thousands of Filipinos forming a human wall defying orders from Malacanang to disperse — to show a stand against dictatorship — along the main thoroughfare that is known...
President Duterte has repeatedly told typhoon "Odette" victims in his relief operations to the affected provinces that he is "not campaigning" for the May 2022 elections. President Rodrigo Duterte (second from right) leads the distribution of aid to typhoon victims in Tisa, Cebu City on Dec. 23,...
June 12 is one of the most colorful holidays in the Philippines marking the country's liberation from its Spanish colonizers in 1898. Independence Day flag raising ceremony at the Luneta. (Manila Bulletin file photo) Before the pandemic, it was a holiday people commemorated by decorating public...
Alden Richards and Bea Alonzo Alden Richards and Bea Alonzo are set to star in the Philippine adaptation of the 2004 South Korean blockbuster hit "A Moment To Remember." The two, who will be working for the first time, will be playing the role portrayed by actors Jung Woo Sung and Son Ye Jin. In an...
