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  The Department of Foreign Affairs is misleading the public when it says “Sabah is not in any way part of the note” verbale the Phililippine government sent recently to Malaysia in denying VERA Files’s story “PH offers Sabah to win Malaysia’s support for UN case vs China.” Note Verbale No. 15-1979 sent to Malaysia,

  By CHICKIE LOCSIN THE fast-expanding Henann Group of hotels is a good argument for a family business. At the helm is the patriarch, Henry Chusuey. His wife Ana, twelve years his junior, is the company treasurer. Henann is a combination of their name: Henry plus Ana. The couple mentors their only daughter Christina Ann,

    By TESSA JAMANDRE THE Philippines has offered to downgrade its claim on Sabah in exchange for Malaysia’s support for its case against China before the United Nations. The quid pro quo was contained in a note verbale the Department of Foreign Affairs handed to a representative of the Malaysian Embassy last week, a

  By OFELIA C. EMPIAN FOR Melchora Grace Balacdao-Matias, looming bands began as an activity to merely overcome boredom in her new work environment in Kuwait. Little did Matias (Mitz to her friends) know that her loom bands would be of help to some 500 school children in the remote municipality of Bakun in Benguet

By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS OMG. I almost fell off my chair upon reading the text exchanges between President Aquino and his sister, Kris Aquino posted by journalist Cecil Morella in Facebook. Tuesday afternoon, Kris Aquino posted in her Instagram account (withlovekrisaquino) her text exchanges with the President last Friday just to disprove rumors that PNoy

Text and photo by JAKE SORIANO UPI, MAGUINDANAO — Free medicines and half a sack of rice have gone a long way in combatting deadly tuberculosis here. Alarmed at the high TB detection rates in Upi, the local government and the rural health center have resorted to rewarding cured patients, as well as those who

  By CHICKIE LOCSIN From bleak garbage dumps to glamor-filled dance floors, Wilbert Aunzo has come a long way. Aunzo was a scavenger and an out –of- school youth who picked garbage to buy his daily meal of rice and salt . When he was twelve, he joined a dance camp organized by Edward and

Text and photos by ARTHA KIRA PAREDES LOS ANGELES, California—Before participating in the nine-day 2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games, the 52-member Filipino delegation will be welcomed and celebrated in Santa Clarita City. Santa Clarita is among the 100 host towns where Special Olympic athletes will be staying from July 21 to 24. It will

                                  By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS READING President Aquino’s speech before the 2015 graduates of the Philippine Military Academy last Sunday, I got the impression that he is isolated from the real world outside Malacañang. For how does one who has to suffer daily the monstrous Metro Manila traffic and the inefficiency of the MRT accept

By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS IT is not true that the Board of Inquiry did not try to ask the side of President Aquino on the Jan. 25 Mamasapano tragedy that claimed 67 lives including 44 of the country’s elite police commandos, 18 members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, and five civilians, including an eight-year

  Text and photos by ELIZABETH LOLARGA THE historic First Intensive Vocal Workshop of soprano Nelly Miricioiu ran for three days (March 9-11), seven hours long each day, with brief lunch and coffee breaks in between, at the Ayala Museum. It has more than prepared the 14 participants for international opera stages. It has also strengthened

  Text and photos by ELIZABETH LOLARGA Archive photos courtesy of the MANILA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The musicians who heeded the call of conductor Herbert Zipper to join the Manila Symphony Orchestra’s first concert after the Liberation of Manila in 1945 came from different parts of the country that had seen four years of hell. Some

By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS IN the 20 to 30 minutes that I was in the midst of the teeming crowd in Wuri Railway Station in Taichung, Taiwan last Saturday, I gained insights about the Taiwanese and in way, in their relations with mainland China, more than what I have learned in my readings in the

By TESSA JAMANDRE CHINA has created new artificial islets in two more reefs in the disputed South China Sea, which the Philippine military fears is meant to choke off its access to Ayungin shoal, where a crumbling Philippine Navy ship is beached. In an interview, former Air Force officer Rep. Francisco Acedillo, now partylist representative

  THE National Council on Disability Affairs (NCDA) says it fully supports the international call to firmly include the human rights of persons with disabilities (PWDs) in the post-2015 development agenda. This comes after a team of United Nations (UN) experts last month appealed to UN negotiators and member states to ensure that no one

  By JOSEPH CORTES Photos  by KIKO CABUENA and ANNA LEAH SARABIA Experienced concertgoers have observed that the acoustics of Meralco Theater is not favorable for concerts of classical music. It has something to do with the way the theater was designed. Rather than the box-shape you would find in most theaters, such as the

By JAKE SORIANO THEY make the country proud but pay a high price, literally. The 36 athletes from the Philippines who will compete at the Special Olympics in July will each have to fork around $1,500 (P66,000) for a round trip ticket to Los Angeles. “We need help,” said Special Olympics Philippines Executive Director Kaye

  Text and photos by ELIZABETH LOLARGA SOPRANO Nelly Miricioiu, whose roots are in Romania, has been called many things, including “a traitor to her country” when she defected to Western Europe. She experienced being snubbed and ignored by her countrymen despite the accolades heaped on her when she conquered Covent Garden in the United