President Duterte has signed into law the measure amending the Public Service Act (PSA), saying this will help the economy recover from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. President Rodrigo Duterte signs the measure amending the Public Service Act in a ceremonial signing event in Malacañang,...
Avail of their opening promos this month, too! It was in August 2019 when New Lounge's Rachelle Bravo started planning with Nikki Huang for SSI and Beauty Bar. "I met Nikki though Heart. She started out as an avid client and has been a supportive Lash Doll since the day she tried our lashes," Bravo...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Wild storms lashed New Zealand's North Island Monday, claiming at least three lives when a fishing vessel sank and causing chaos in the country's biggest city Auckland, officials said. Police said three bodies were recovered and another two people were missing after...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPEVINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL May 9 is less than two months away, that day when we troop to the election booths and choose our next President. And from where I sit, it looks like it’ll be a scorching hot summer day when emotions will be running high, and our immediate future...
BAGUIO CITY – Team from the Coordinated Operations to Defeat Epidemic (Code) of the National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19 has lauded this Summer Capital as it became a role model city for its excellent transition to the new normal. (Photo courtesy of Rizaldy Comanda / MANILA BULLETIN) During...
The museum director details how he brought the ‘Brave New World’ exhibit from URL to IRL It was during the pandemic that everyone saw how vital the internet was in our lives. During that time when we were pushed to distance ourselves from others, it created a bridge that connected us to the...
How do artists envision life in the time of COVID-19? On March 16, 2020, the busy Manila was put to silence with fear a Covid-19 began to wreak havoc in the metro and, eventually, in other different parts in the archipelago. This sudden halt has taken many lives and crippled various industries, the...
Kevin Durant of the Brooklyn Nets (center) shoots the ball as RJ Barrett (left) and Jericho Sims of the New York Knicks defend during the first half at Barclays Center on March 13, 2022 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (AFP) Kevin Durant erupted for 53 points to lead the Brooklyn Nets to a...
A member of K-pop boy band The Boyz has tested positive for Covid-19 amid a surge in Omicron variant cases in South Korea. IST Entertainment, The Boyz’s agency, announced on March 13 that member New has been diagnosed with the disease. The Boyz member New (Instagram) It said on March 12, The...
BETTER DAYS Senator Sonny Angara Recently, the country loosened many of its COVID-related restrictions on account of two factors—that infection numbers have been declining in the past few weeks, and that we are inching closer to vaccinating 70 percent of all Filipinos. The National Task Force...
Heard It Through the GripeVine: Our New Abnormal Over the last two Sundays, I’ve written about seven of the 10 Manila Bulletin UPLIFT Awards awardees, with the seven I’ve cited covering the categories of Sports, e-Commerce, and MSME’s (awardees are women in these three categories); and then...
Los Angeles-born Maria Torres-Springer wants to reconnect with her Filipino roots FILIPINO VOICE Maria Torres-Springer, deputy mayor for economic and workforce development in New York Maria Torres-Springer, the Los Angeles-born Filipina-American deputy mayor of New York who was put in charge of...
