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Alma Anonas-Carpio

Pag-IBIG Fund releases P4B for socialized housing for Jan-May, up by 26% from same period 2017 

Pag-IBIG Fund released P 3.995 billion in socialized housing from January to May 2018, benefiting 10,491 minimum wage and low income members. This year’s disbursement...

Villar receives honoris causa doctorate from UPLB

Sen. Cynthia Villar was awarded an honorary doctorate by the country’s premiere school in agricultural studies during the University of the Philippines Los Banos...

Chinese General Hospital new building inaugurated

The Chinese General Hospital and Medical Center (CGHMC) owned and operated by the Philippine Chinese Charitable Association, Inc. (PCCAI) held a groundbreaking ceremony of...

When God becomes just another joking matter

  Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will reap.—Galatians 6:7   Rarely do I give myself the chance to...

Modern jeepney story

The Senate of the Philippines’ employees will enjoy riding safer, environment-friendly jeepneys loaded with some very good mod-cons (modern conveniences) soon. Isuzu Gencars, led by...

SM Foundation and its volunteer programs

The volunteerism spirit is very high among the diversified SM Group of Companies be it for church-based activities, BrigadaEskwela for school repairs, disaster relief...

PCSO employees undergo surprise drug test

A total of 554 officers and employees from Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) voluntarily submitted themselves to drug test Monday in support to President Rodrigo Duterte’s...

From the NBA to the Big3

The National Basketball Association is one of the most prominent sport industries on the planet. It has a lasting legacy starting legends such as...

New Czech visa application center opens in Cebu City

  The Embassy of the Czech Republic expanded its service network with VFS Global as it launched its new Visa Application Center in Cebu City. Traveling...

The law decriminalizing vagrancy amid the drive against tambays

Six years ago, an event heralded as a landmark accomplishment for human rights in the Philippines took place. On March 27, 2012, the law decriminalizing...

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STILL LIFE WITH TWELVE SUNFLOWERS, AFTER SCROLLING

Van Gogh’s sunflowers  — all twelve of them  — so lively, lush, standing, bending; they do not submit to ikebana’s poise and posture — golden — no — bronze — beautiful yet strange. I am certain this is the color of grief thick as impasto, of desire leaping like a gazelle, beyond the canvas’s frame — wedged in the folds of saffron — of...

The Weight of Small Things

Fear is at the back of her mind, a shimmering heat in the distance, a glowing ember in the dark. Silently acknowledged but never confronted, because naming might push her off the deep end. But it is there, biding its time, like a half-remembered pain faintly throbbing...

Megawide Foundation creates sustainable spaces for people and the environment, turns over two new community projects

In another step towards building better communities, Megawide Corporate Foundation, Inc. (“MCFI” or “the Foundation”)—the corporate social responsibility arm of Megawide Construction Corporation (“Megawide”)—recently completed two sustainability projects, embodying its mission to build sustainable, inclusive spaces. A renewed home of hope and care for children in need On 16...