Two Philippine cities — Quezon City and San Fernando City — have been cited for their waste recycling collaboration with informal waste pickers that helped stymied poverty as recycling creates jobs in their localities and supports the recovery amid the economic difficulties during the pandemic,...
(Photo from Execration's Facebook page) Only a few days have passed since Execration ended its campaign in the inaugural season of the Dota Pro Circuit (DPC)-Southeast Asia Upper Division, but the team is already gearing up for the next one. After a botched bid to qualify for the Singapore Major,...
The Ayala Group of Companies, through the Ayala Foundation, has donated testing kits and other medical supplies to Quezon City to boost the testing capacity of the country’s biggest city. In a statement, the conglomerate said QC Mayor Joy Belmonte received P4.5 million worth of supplies that...
We need more of this Fernando Amorsolo's “Couple Riding A Carabao During Sunset” Looking at an artwork displayed in museums, particularly visual art, is an undeniably unique experience. You get to see the texture of the brush strokes. People can examine how the artist skillfully blends colors...
ANGEL THOUGHTS In protecting oneself, others are protected; In protecting others, oneself is protected. —Gautama Buddha In the eagerness to get life back on track and regain human connections lost due to Covid-19, vaccination has been on everyone’s minds. The...
Ayala Corp. (AC), one of the country’s leading conglomerates, is increasing its investments in the country with about P182 billion in capital expenditures earmarked for this year for their various businesses even as the company continues its COVID-19 efforts with donations already hitting P12.7...
Ayala Corporation revealed more about its succession plan with the announcement that Chairman Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala (JAZA) will be giving up his concurrent position as Chief Executive Officer in favor of his brother, Ayala President Fernando Zobel de Ayala (FZA). In a disclosure to the...
An award more special than others By Nick Tayag This Dec. 7, NCCA Chairman and CCP President, and Manila Bulletin Lifestyle Arts + Culture columnist Arsenio “Nick” J. Lizaso received the Fernando Poe Lifetime Achievement Award from the Film Academy of the Philippines (FAP). According to the...
The Giant Lantern Festival will have to be experienced behind a screen 2012's Ligligan Parul, photo by Ramon F Velasquez If there’s one place in the Philippines that will keenly feel more than the others how the pandemic impacts the holidays—it’s San Fernando, Pampanga, the culinary capital...
Weekly Column By Jeff Fernando Bea Alonzo “Be careful what you wish for.” Another wish came true for a successful businesswoman who is also Beautederm Corporation President and CEO Rhea Anicoche-Tan as she formally welcomed actress Bea Alonzo as the official endorser of its newest product Etre...
PAST RECIPIENTS Lino Brocka for film in 1997, Fernando Amorsolo for visual arts-painting in 1972, and Nick JoaquÃn for literature in 1976 Good news! The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) have opened the nomination for the Orden...
As the beloved cultural icon writes 30 KAY GILDA National Artist for Literature Rio Alma pays tribute to the cultural icon Gilda Cordero-Fernando Just minutes after news of cultural icon Gilda Cordero-Fernando 's passing broke. Rio Alma, National Artist for Literature Virgilio Almario ,...
