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  By CEZ DONASCO ONE of life’s pleasures is eating. The downside of that is gaining weight. But there are ways to indulge in food without necessarily gaining unwanted pounds. Here are three tips: 1. Count 32 before swallowing your food. There are different theories about the number of times you are supposed to chew

  By PABLO A. TARIMAN FELIPE Padilla de Leon’s opera, “Noli Me Tangere” has enjoyed several well-received revivals since its world premiere in 1957 at the FEU Auditorium. One saw its grand staging at the CCP main theater in 1987 with the Maria Clara of Andion Fernandez, the Ibarra of Nolyn Cabahug and the Sisa

By MARILYN MANA-AY ROBLES        There is this story about a seven-year old boy who lived with his sisters and parents. Beside their house resides an elderly couple who loved doing housework together. One day, he learned the man of the house had died. He rushed to his neighbor’s house to see his widow. He stayed

  By YOLANDA L. PUNSALAN INSCRIBED on a rectangular mooncake box with the hues of orange, deep green and brown, with thickly feathered birds perched on a persimmon tree heavy with fruits, is this stanza.    IN THE SHADOW AS LOVE AND I                                    As Love and I                                     Late harbour’d in one inn

  By MARILYN MANA-AY ROBLES ROCHELLE, a young lupus patient of 8 years, received a text message from the president of the Lupus Foundation reminding her of their regular 1st Saturday of the month meeting. She responded “ gustong gusto ko umattend kaya lang mahina pa ako. Minsan ba nakaramdam ka ng para kang nawewengdang?”

By JAKE SORIANO ISTANBUL, Turkey—Children have become the new targets of cybercriminal activities over the last five years, with the online underground economy making a killing from selling inappropriate images of children on the Internet, a security expert said here. These pictures of children were found to sell for up to three-figure dollar amounts, said

  By  ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS CHINA’s 9-dashed line map, which was recently expanded to 10 dashes, goes against the “concept of global commons” which was the foundation of the 1982 United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea, Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio said in a speech delivered on the 75th Anniversary of the

  By PATRICK KING PASCUAL “DENVER” (not his real name) is HIV-positive. He has been an outpatient at one of the HIV/AIDS treatment hubs in Manila for seven years already. And he just learned recently that he can avail some benefits and privileges from the government. “I cannot blame them for not orienting us, the

  By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS THIS will either make you laugh or cry. Last Monday over dinner, lawyer Ven Canta shared with us something that intrigued him while he was surfing at the Philippine Government Electronic Procurement System or PhilGeps website. It was an Invitation to Bid Reference No. 2785628. The Procuring entity is the

By JAKE SORIANO ISTANBUL, Turkey—The Philippine government is a no-show here at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), the biggest global venue for discussions of all policy issues related to the complex business of governing the Web. Two officials from the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) registered as participants, but both were unable to secure

  By NORMAN SISON  AT a bazaar held annually to showcase Filipino-made products, quality and price are not the only selling points. So is patriotism. Actually, the August 22-24 Global Pinoy Bazaar, is a declaration in itself: the “Made in the Philippines” label is no longer synonymous with inferior quality. Convincing Filipino consumers to let

[metaslider id=30180] UNIVERSITY of the Philippines President Alfredo Pascual and UP Diliman Chancellor Michael Tan gave Superstar Nora Aunor a certificate of recognition as the 10th Gawad Plaridel Awardee. Aunor posed with UP officials before the press, who descended on the UP Film Center’s Cine Adarna Theater where the ceremonies where held Aug. 27. Aunor was

By OFELIA C. EMPIAN THE grandeur and mystery of Mount Pulag through the eyes of children. That is what Juan Portrait wants to share with the rest of the country when it stages the works of 20 pupils of Mount Pulag Primary School in Kabayan, Benguet who attended their photography workshop last July. For one

By ITCHIE CRUZ-YAP Many young Filipino musicians struggle to make their music heard. Although the Filipinos are a very musical lot, the infrastructure for music and the arts in the Philippines is still fraught with a lot of challenges. To make a name here, often one has to first make it big elsewhere. But this

  By JOHNNA VILLAVIRAY GIOLAGON The proliferation of budget airlines has made travel affordable even if one does not belong to the rich and famous. Travel recharges one’s tired body and mind. You learn other people’s culture, you gain new friends. It widens one’s horizon. But since traveling involves being in a new and in

  By KATRINA STUART SANTIAGO I had started watching CinemalayaX with Carlitos Siguion Reyna’s Hari Ng Tondo, Joseph Alterejos’s Kasal, and Roderick Cabrido’s Children’s Show. It was two good movies out of three, and I thought it was portents of things to come for the rest of the week’s movie viewing frenzy. After watching all

Text and Photos by COOPER RESABAL REBUILDING structures damaged by the 7.2 intensity earthquake that struck Bohol October last year not only means restoring the pre-earthquake look of the island province, but also involves harmonizing them with existing structures that reflect its colonial and non-colonial heritage. This was the gist of the training workshop “Design

  By JAKE SORIANO DIVINA is preparing for her daughter Rowena’s 13th birthday when she hears shocking news: her daughter has been attacked by a crocodile, her body still missing. As Divina searches for the body of her daughter in the marshlands of Agusan del Sur, she learns a lesson more tragic than her fate:

  By HAZEL P. VILLA ILOILO CITY-In the world of technology, the human factor is what makes the difference. Filipino-American Rom Agustin, chief executive officer of Callbox Sales and Marketing Solutions, paid tribute to the people who compose the company as it celebrated its first 10 years by moving up from a call center to

  BY JAKE SORIANO EVEN before its title credits appear, the film #Y directed by Gino Santos has already told its audience its lead character is dead. It is in fact the dead man Miles – dead boy rather, played brilliantly by Elmo Magalona who does the telling. A la William Holden in Billy Wilder’s

  By ITCHIE CRUZ-YAP THERE is one tree at the University of the Philippines in Los Baños that evokes wonder for its resistance to the strongest typhoons that have smashed into the country: the leaning tropical dao tree in front of the Student Union (SU) Building. UP, Los Baños, Laguna campus, like the rest of

  By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS THE president of a national physicians organization is reminding the public to practice good hygiene as one of the measures to combat the Ebola virus currently sweeping West Africa. Tony Leachon, president of the Philippine College of Physicians and information director of the University of the Philippines-Manila, also urged the

By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS THE P2.6 trillion 2015 budget submitted by Malacanang to Congress will institutionalize the practices in the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) which the Supreme Court had declared unconstitutional. In the 2015 budget proposal, “savings” is now defined as portions of allocations that “have not been released or obligated” due to “discontinuance or

  By DIANA G. MENDOZA MELBOURNE – “I feel and sense that the Philippines may be the next Africa.” Dr. Jose Narciso Melchor Sescon, president of the AIDS Society of the Philippines (ASP), made this conclusion at the International AIDS Conference being held in this city after the Philippines figured prominently in the global forum