Archive - Yahoo

BY ELLEN TORDESILLAS VIOLINIST Joaquin Maria “Chino” Gutierrez’s performance Saturday night at the Insular Theatre at the Filinvest Corporate City in Alabang was mesmerizing, just the right antidote to  all the toxic reports that  currently dominate the media. Gutierrez “Revelry” concert was a repeat of the successful concert he had last year at the Francisco

  By ELLEN TORDESILLAS CHINA on Friday reminded President Aquino it had fought on the side of the Allied Powers against fascist Japan and Germany in World War II, after Aquino likened China’s encroachment into the South China Sea with Adolf Hitler’s hegemonic moves in World War II. In a press briefing, China’s Foreign Ministry

  By PABLO A. TARIMAN AFTER eleven feature films most of them blockbusters, film director Olivia Lamasan admits her film education started from the time her mother (a Nora Aunor fan) would drag her siblings to the movie theaters to watch her favorite movie star. “I have no schooling in film theories, no exposure in

  By PABLO A. TARIMAN Photos by ANNA LEAH SARABIA and JANICE DEE MANY years after her debut at La Scala, Metropolitan Opera and at the Salzburg Festival, Korean diva Sumi Jo made her triumphant Philippine debut last night at the Samsung Hall of SM Aura with a rousing standing ovation and endless cheers from

  Text and photos by ELIZABETH LOLARGA BEFORE she could even sing one note in tonight’s much-awaited concert, operatic sensation and Grammy award-winning crossover artist Sumi Jo already promised over 200 children and teenagers saved from the mean streets that she would return to the Philippines to be with them. During her visit yesterday to

    Photos by LITTLE WING LUNA Text by MITCH MEÑEZ Kung hei fat choi! Chinatown was ablaze in red Friday as it welcomed the Year of the Wood Horse. People wore red, children held red envelopes with money, lanterns that line the streets and shop fronts were all in red. Red symbolizes fire, which the

   By ELIZABETH LOLARGA Photos by ANNA LEAH SARABIA IN her next reincarnation, Sumi Jo, Korean lyric coloratura and toast of the opera world, would rather be “something else.” What she is today still entails battles with loneliness, caring for and covering up her throat (“Winter is hard for singers”), the discipline of sitting, studying,

  By PABLO A. TARIMAN THIS year is the 4th death anniversary of baritone Gamaliel Viray and Santa Isabel College Conservatory of Music will pay special tribute to him with a performance of Mendelssohn’s monumental oratorio, “Elijah” on February 22 at the school’s Santo Cristo de Tesoro Auditorium to be conducted by Dr. Raul Navarro.

  By PATRICK KING PASCUAL IN life, it takes more than just talent and skill to succeed. As important as physical and emotional health is financial stability. ABS-CBN News Channel’s, On the Money (airs on ABS-CBN News Channel every day at 3:30pm) recently gathered a group of financial planners to share their expertise in managing

Photos by LITTLE WING LUNA Text by MITCH MEÑEZ LAST Sunday, just like all the third Sundays of January of years past, the streets of Tondo teemed with devotees carrying the images of the Santo Niño. One of the oldest images in the http://siedc.org/wp/ country, the Santo Niño or the Holy Child, represents the Filipinos’

By NORMAN SISON IT is a question that has perplexed government policymakers and academics for years: where has the money been going? Since 2006, Alvin Ang, an economics professor at the University of Santo Tomas, has been conducting research into the Filipino migrant worker diaspora for aid agencies, the World Bank, the International Labor Organization

By YOLANDA L. PUNZALAN IF one has to be marooned on an island, it is his great fortune if it happens to be in Balesin. The stranded would not only be surrounded by   nature’s beauty but also man’s magnificent creations. Situated in the municipality of Polillio, Quezon Province, it is the landmass between the deep

  By ELIZABETH LOLARGA Photos courtesy of REYME V. FAURILLO JR. and JOAN GELI DORONILA BARELY seven years have passed since Sinag de Leon began exhibiting her paper-cut art. But already she has had 10 solo show and joined just as many group exhibits. Integrated in her shows are skills sharing and training workshops. Her

THERE’S a compelling reason for President Aquino  to make sure that that he would be able to influence  the people’s choice  of  his successor otherwise he would  suffer the same fate that befell the  two presidents before him. His predecessor, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, is in jail – hospital arrest, actually- facing plunder and electoral sabotage

  By MITCH MENEZ Photos by LITTLE WING LUNA THERE is an inside joke amongst volunteer workers  in Tacloban that one must wear long pants, rub one’s  body with  Off lotion and sleep inside the  mosquito net. If not, you will be flown by those  blood-sucking flies in mosquito land. The swarm of mosquitoes in

  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