ALL ABOARD The window displays change lighting to create the illusion of a moving train All aboard the Faubourg Express, a portal into the universe uniquely and craftily Hermès, but our destination was the limits of our imagination, to the moon and back, through the galactic center, beyond...
THE SUNDAY DRILL ALONE IN CHANG MAI Downtime at a quaint hotel along the Mae Ping River after a Thai modular cooking lesson with French-Israeli food scholar Dr. Hanuman Aspler. She was the lone guest at the hotel To Gaggan-trained Rhea Rizzo, the chef behind the dining destination Mrs. Saldo’s,...
BACOLOD CITY – A forest protection officer was gunned down by the New People’s Army a day before her 48th birth anniversary in Sitio Taytay 3, Barangay Carabalan, Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental on Thursday night, Nov. 14. A 47-year-old woman was shot dead by the New People’s Army on the...
BUTUAN CITY – Five New People’s Army (NPA) fighters have surrendered to the military in Agusan del Norte and Surigao del Norte. CAMP Evangelista, headquarters of the 4th Infantry Division. (FB) Fourth Infantry (Diamond) Division Public Affairs Office (4 th ID-PAO) chief Lt. Col....
ILOILO CITY – Two young New People’s Army (NPA) rebels surrendered to the 12th Infantry Battalion (IB) of the Philippine Army in Tapaz town, Capiz province. The Army identified them as 22-year-old John and 20-year-old Kate. TWO former communist rebels visit Mayor Roberto Palomar of Tapaz, Capiz...
TACLOBAN CITY - A soldier was killed and three others were wounded in an encounter with the New People's Army (NPA) on Tuesday, Nov. 12, in Barangay Malidong, Gamay, Northern Samar. The fatality was identified as Corporal Benjie Tamor, a native of Dolores, Eastern Samar, and a member of the 52nd...
Czarina Ablaza and Dr Jofe Syquia with their children, Amanu, Azi, Azia, Alfonso, and Agu Syquia By Carlo Rojas Society darling Czarina Ablaza-Syquia and her husband, renowned orthopedic surgeon, Dr Jofe Syquia, celebrated their silver anniversary on Oct. 23, the exact day they tied the knot...
BUTUAN CITY – Three New People’s Army fighters surrendered to the Army 29th Infantry (Matatag) Battalion in Barangay Del Pilar, Cabadbaran City, Agusan del Norte on Monday, Nov. 11. DOWNTOWN Cabadbaran City, Agusan del Norte. “Fear is among the primary reasons that they decided to...
Chiara G. Cox is the daughter of Arthaland vice chairman and president Jaime Gonzalez and Connie Y. Gonzalez. And as a daughter of a couple who have championed Sustainability for over a decade, way before it became a buzzword; it was no surprise to find Chiara behind the screening of a documentary...
ILOILO CITY – The Army 12th Infantry Battalion has facilitated assistance to the family of a New People’s Army rebel killed in a clash in Libacao, Aklan province. Alvin Panoy from Lemery town in Iloilo province was the lone casualty in the evening encounter between the 12th IB and the NPA...
Sen. Robinhood "Robin" C. Padilla has filed a bill seeking to provide Indigenous Peoples (IPs) a bigger share of revenues generated from natural resources within the territories of indigenous cultural communities. Padilla, who chairs the Senate Committee on Cultural Communities and Muslim Affairs,...
CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro – Troops recovered a New People’s Army arms cache following an encounter in Barangay Villa Pag-asa, Bansud, Oriental Mindoro on Tuesday afternoon. TROOPS recover NPA paraphernalia and weapons following an encounter in Sitio Gitgit, Barangay Villa Pag-asa,...
