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  By NORMAN SISON IF there is anything that the town of Santo Tomas is best known for, it would be bulalo, a light colored stew of beef shanks and — the star attraction — bone marrow. Cholesterol heaven. With Mount Makiling looming kilometers away, the largely farming town of 125,000 is a popular stopover

  By NORMAN SISON PASSERSBY and motorists routinely ignore the 50-foot marble column at the center of a rotunda on Bonifacio Drive, gracing the main entrance to Intramuros, the centuries-old walled-in Spanish quarter that formed the core of what is now Manila. Every day, come rush hour, Anda Circle is gridlocked with traffic that is

By AVIGAIL OLARTE TACLOBAN CITY—Inside the white, family-sized tent, Delia Capangan stood in the middle of what she now calls home sweating.  It was mid-afternoon, but the heat clung to the skin, raw and burning. Capangan, 61, is one of more than 2,000 people still living in tents here. Strewn about her were pieces of

By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS IN the power point presentation Rep. Ashley Acedillo of the Magdalo Party showed last Wednesday, he compared the massive fortification and expansion of the Chinese of their occupied reefs in the disputed Spratlys area in the South China with the miserable state of the islands and reefs occupied by the Philippines.

By UP Journ 102 THR SUPERSTAR Nora Aunor, who used to sell water near train tracks and never got past Grade 2, said she felt like a college graduate after receiving the Gawad Plaridel from the University of the Philippines on Aug. 27. The Gawad Plaridel is the highest honor the country’s premier university bestows

  By Ellen T. Tordesillas From our always reliable source : A few days after the Supreme Court declared parts of the Disbursement Accelerated Program or DAP unconstitutional last July 1, the three presidential sisters- Ballsy Cruz, Pinky Abellada, and Kris Aquino (Viel Dee didn’t join them) talked with the President to let go of

 A screenshot showing a tampered headline of a VERA Files story on the Ebola virus published Aug. 4 in Yahoo Ph! is being circulated online. The fake headline in the screenshot reads “Ebola virus has killed 23 people in Manila” and was added to the original headline of writer Ellen Tordesillas’ story “Good hygiene—the weapon

By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS WHILE everybody was trying to recover from the emotional performance of President Aquino in his 5th State-of-the-Nation address Monday night, pork barrel queen Janet Napoles was brought to Camp Bagong Diwa jail at the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology in Bicutan,Taguig. Reports said Napoles arrived at Bicutan from Fort Sto.

By JANE MAREN DASAL (Photos by Mario Ignacio IV and Mario Espinosa) As the rains poured on Monday, sentiments of discontent from the protesters also poured when President Benigno Simeon Aquino III delivered his fifth State of the Nation Address (SONA) at the House of Representatives. “If we were his ‘boss,’ then he’s fired,” 18-year-old

IN various offices of the Commission on Elections nationwide, the same story played out as the country marked Sunday the National Registration Day for Persons with Disabilities (PWDs): Only a handful showed up to register as voters, and in some places none at all. The low turnout was blamed on poor information dissemination by the poll

By JAKE SORIANO BONGAO, Tawi-Tawi – Inside a small room at the Tawi-Tawi Provincial Police Station, leaders of the local anti-trafficking task force had been trying to pry information out of five women who had just been intercepted by the police getting off a boat from Zamboanga City. The five, all of them new faces

[metaslider id=29231]   By YVONNE T. CHUA THE more than 30,000 classrooms the national government is building this schoolyear will look hardly any different from those constructed in recent years, especially to the untrained eye. But the classrooms of 2014 and thereafter will be different. They will sport a new design the Department of Education