The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) released the list of the top-grossing films in South Korea for the month of June. Topping the June monthly box office in South Korea is the Korean movie “The Roundup: No Way Out,” starring Ma Dong-seok (aka Don Lee), Lee Joon-hyuk and Munetaka Aoki. The third...
REFLECTIONS TODAY Matthew 10:37-42 The First Reading narrates the story of the kindness of the woman from Shunem. When she had a room built for the prophet Elisha, the prophet rewarded her with the promise of a son she and her husband had long longed for. They were rewarded by God for their...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL A recent media event held at the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to celebrate World Environment Day, led by DENR Secretary Toni Yulo-Loyzaga, was a showcase of some of the strategic partnerships that the DENR has entered into with...
A STUNNING PERFORMANCE Harrison Ford stars alongside Phoebe Waller-Bridge as they try to locate the Dial of Destiny My generation was about seven years old when we met Dr. Henry Walton “Indiana” Jones, Jr. (Harrison Ford) on the big screen with *Raiders of the Lost Ark* (1981) and now, after...
Photos by ALI VICOY and the author LOVE THE PHILIPPINES Unveiled during the event, the latest ad campaign of DOT with the slogan, LOVE the Philippines After a decade of hearing about how it’s more fun in the Philippines, the Department of Tourism (DOT) has recently unveiled the next step of its...
IT’S THE SMALL THINGS This is the second in my African adventure realizations series, and truth be told, I do not know how many more will come out of it. That is Africa for you — soul food, mind medicine, and overall, a most transformative, dare I say spiritually awakening experience, different...
Senators on Friday, June 30 said the current minimum wage that has been set by the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board in the National Capital Region which is at P40 is too low for a Filipino family to live on decently. "Hangad natin ang sahod na makapagbibigay ng isang buhay na...
Albay 1st district Rep. Edcel Lagman (Facebook) An Albay congressman has seemingly taken the side of Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Christina Frasco amid the tit-for-tat with Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda on the lousy representation of Mayon Volcano in the agency's renewed national...
Mayon Volcano (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda has boldy claimed that Philippine tourism is "incomplete" without the province's iconic Mayon Volcano. Salceda--apparently still smarting from Mayon’s exclusion from the Department of Tourism's (DOT) new...
Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri will retire from politics come 2028. "I’ve already gone through so many hardships politically. If God says take a break, take a break," Zubiri told Senate reporters during a Kapihan sa Senado press briefing yesterday, June 29....
Rear Admiral Geoffroy D' Andigné, joint commander in the Asia-Pacific Zone of the French Armed Forces in French Polynesia, visited the headquarters of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City on Thursday, June 29, to reaffirm his vision to establish a stronger...
THE LEGAL FRONT Three factors led me to the topic of this column. First is our K-12 system of education that the country has been implementing since 2012. The system covers kindergarten, six years of primary education, four years of junior high school, and two years of senior high school, to...
