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  By DESIREE CALUZA SOMEWHERE IN THE CORDILLERA –Here in the Cordillera in northern Luzon, Philippines, cicadas, birds, dragonflies and butterflies are the usual companions of young revolutionaries who call the hills their home. In one makeshift kitchen made of bamboo and plastic mats, young revolutionaries (aged 18 to 31), sip brewed coffee  as they

  Text and photos by  DANIEL ABUNALES NAVAL, Biliran – Every year, residents from Talustusan, a community 20 minutes away from this town, gather on Christmas eve at their community center to welcome the birth of Christ. It was no different even after typhoon Yolanda (international name: Haiyan) hit the province over a month ago,

  By ATTILA KULCSAR  and  VINCENT HENSON Photo by PETER CATON of  HelpAge International FRANCESCA Genemilo, 78, sits on a bench where her house once stood. She stares pensively at the ruins, clutching her blue umbrella, one of the few treasured possessions that supertyphoon “Yolanda” did not take from her. She lives in Barangay Bulak,

By ACE ESMERALDA Video from the Philippine Daily Inquirer (Security expert Ace Esmeralda wrote the following observations based on the statements of Makati City Mayor Jejomar Erwin “Junjun” Binay, the Dasmariñas Village security, Makati Chief of Police, Right Eight Security agency and the video of the incident.) IF a picture paints a thousand words, a

By MELISSA LUZ LOPEZ FOR nearly 20 years, government agencies have tried to come up with a consolidated list of Filipinos with disabilities, but to no avail. An organization of persons with disabilities composed of throat cancer survivors hopes to finally create this national database by working with hundreds of PWD organizations all over the

By YOLANDA STORY HUB VISAYAS  CONCEPCION, Iloilo—Despite the devastation wrought by supertyphoon Yolanda in this northern coastal town in Panay Island, children here still look forward to celebrating this Christmas. Many of them are still hopeful that Santa Claus would grant them their wishes. But while most children their age would wish for toys this

By THILO THIELKE KILIMANJARO, Tanzania — It is one of those mornings that one only finds in Kilimanjaro. The snow-covered peaks of the mountain rise majestically over the tropical rainforest. The crystal-clear waters of the Weruweru river rush down the valley. And over the Kaliwa Lodge, an eagle circles alone. Bernadette Padua-Kirsch begins her day as

 Text and photos by ELIZABETH LOLARGA THE open area used to be a parking lot in Mandaluyong City, a concrete space between a wet and dry market and an almost run-down theater until the last was turned into a business process outsourcing center. The place has been gentrified and reinvented into what is now Greenfield

By JOSHUA LANSANGAN, CLTV 36 ANGELES CITY — Former home of giant American military bases, Central Luzon has become almost synonymous with human trafficking, especially for sexual exploitation, for decades. The opening of an international airport at the former US Air Force facility in Clark, Pampanga in recent years has kept anti-trafficking advocates in and out

By VERA Files CHURCH bells rang as Filipinos marked the first day of Simbang Gabi on Monday. A time-honored Christmas tradition of the Catholic faithful, the devotees flocked to dawn masses as they do every December. It’s no different for churchgoers in the Visayas, despite having been stricken by two of the country’s worst natural

By CELINA MARIE PANALIGAN Nina Pineda is anything but ordinary. Having turned 15 just last September, Pineda is already managing her own online fashion business.  She sells clothing items, from crop tops to flower crowns, on “Indiestructible” (http://shopindiestructible.com/), a site she started when she was 12. Indiestructible describes itself as having been “created out of

By COOPER RESABAL Jr. MARIBOJOC, Bohol—The new American ambassador to the Philippines captured the hearts of Boholanos in his first official visit on Thursday in the island province of Bohol, bringing school kits for pupils and teaching materials to teachers in an elementary school here, one of the most damaged towns in the 7.2 magnitude