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[metaslider id=31393] By VERA Files EARLY morning Sunday, the Bangcailans, a family of five, rushed to reach the Freedom Park in Davao City to join for the first time this year’s Happy Walk. They did it for Shawnn Noel, their two-year-old son with Down Syndrome. A yearly event to highlight the National Down Syndrome Consciousness Month

    By ELIZABETH LOLARGA Photos courtesy of JOSEPH UY To listen to Nelly Miricioiu, the soprano from Romania who is now a British citizen, is to fall in love with her. Fall hard for her. She will have a one-night concert, “Nelly Miricioiu Live in Manila,” on March 6 at 8 p.m. at Meralco

  By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS THE tragedy in Mamasapano, Maguindanao claimed the lives of 44 of the country’s elite policemen, 18 members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and some civilians. One of those who died was an eight-year old girl named Sarah. I learned about Sarah from Hussein Macarambon’s Facebook heart-rending post: “ At

THE Department of Health (DOH) has suspended the implementation of a blanket licensing requirement for all massage therapists in the country while working out a system of accreditation with the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA). The licensing order will be deferred for three years, or until December 2017. If it were enforced according

By LUZ RIMBAN (Conclusion) ADVOCATES for Mindanao like Fr. Eliseo Mercado, OMI, and Fr. Joel Tabora, SJ, constantly refer to history as the point where Filipinos need to go to understand the strife in Mindanao. “Ang unang dahilan siguro kung bakit may gulo dito sapagkat yung feeling ng ating mga kapatid na Muslim ay mayroon hindi

 By LUZ RIMBAN (First of two parts) IF Muslims in the Philippines only had a hand in the way things are run in the country, one of the first things they would do is rewrite mainstream history books to help Filipinos understand and put current issues in context. Indeed, some of them say, an educational

  By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS It was President Aquino who informed Interior Secretary Mar Roxas, Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin, Armed Forces Chief  Gen. Gregorio Catapang and the rest of the presidential party in Zamboanga on the Mamasapano debacle on Jan. 25, a source close to Malacañang said. That’s why in the hearings in the Senate

  By CEZ DONASCO IN a time where scientific research findings contradict each other, people do not know what to believe anymore. Are eggs good for the health, bad, or maybe a little of both? The reason why eggs have gained such dubious reputation is cholesterol. An egg yolk contains 214-220 mg of cholesterol. The

By CHICKIE R. LOCSIN ‘THE Philippines has the best talent in the world, but its animation industry is among the smallest in the world.” Coming from an Australian, Wayne Dearing, chief executive officer of Top Draw Animation, the statement is both a tribute and a challenge. Miguel del Rosario, of Toon City Animation and vice-president

  By CHICKIE R. LOCSIN AS you gasp in excitement  watching  Optimus Prime’s Autobots battle  Megatron’s Decepticons or delight at the splendor of Megan’s Pony Land, feel proud that the TV series that have thrilled millions all over the world  are produced by Filipino artists in the Philippines. But producing what are fun to watch

    By NORMAN SISON “GO to Manila, go around the Nips, bounce off the Nips — but go to Manila.” It was January 1945. General Douglas MacArthur had landed his forces at Lingayen Gulf early that month to begin his campaign to liberate the main Philippine island of Luzon. With his eye fixed on

  By ELLENT. TORDESILLAS US-CENTRIC Filipinos may not be aware that the Philippines and Iran share a lot of common experiences- from rising from devastating natural calamities to political upheavals. Foremost is the harnessing of people power against an extravagant and tyrannical regimes. Many Filipinos like to think that we “invented” People Power with the