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Alma Anonas-Carpio

Academy Award-winning film opens Czech movie fest

Comedy Kolya, the 1997 Academy-award winning movie for Best Foreign Language Film, will officially launch Czech Embassy Manila’s year-long cinematic celebration, “Czech Movie Gems.”...

Manila Water Asia Pacific to help build micro-library in Bandung, Indonesia

The signing of the grant for a micro-library in Bandung was led by Manila Water Asia Pacific Indonesia Country Head Pieter Tobing (third from...

Satiating King Crab cravings at Kitsho

The perfection of Japanese cuisine is celebrated not only by bountiful harvest on land but also of abundant catch on its surrounding bodies of...

PhilHealth strengthens overseas presence through service missions

Service missions in at least 12 overseas locations, conducted over a five-month period, enabled the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) to address the information...

SSS retiree pensioners residing in Ph no longer need ACOP

Some 1.32 million retiree pensioners of state-run Social Security System (SSS) are no longer required to report for the Annual Confirmation of Pensioners Program (ACOP) or...

10 Best Philippines Graphic profiles under the Duterte administration

  Davao City: In the eyes of a journalist Mayor Duterte is nowhere near Manila’s boy-next-door type. Political correctness has little hold on him. He spares no...

Haunting and affecting war novel is now in Filipino

Localized bookstore The Bookmark, Inc. launches Pagbasag ng Katahimikan, a translation of Lourdes Montinola’s Breaking the Silence, which narrates the “most barbarous episode of...

Pag-IBIG Fund remits to BIR P2 B worth of taxes for real and other properties

Pag-IBIG Fund remitted to the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) the amount of P2,064,334,589.95 representing the basic tax for Real and Other Properties Acquired...

SM Center Lemery opens

SM Center Lemery opened just in time for Christmas in Batangas. It is SM Prime Holdings’ 67th mall, and the third in the province...

UEEA officers, directors take oath of office

University of the East president and chief academic officer Dr. Ester A. Garcia inducted into office the duly elected executive officers and the directors...

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On Womanhood

Being a woman is thrust upon you. You walk under stars and suddenly casually, make a fist in your pocket and hold your key—like a weapon. It is keen awareness of fabric length, and clenched assessment of skin, padlocks, mirrors, stopping cars, of home routes, and drink offers. Being a woman is weighing the chances of a stranger becoming a husband —or...

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The children of the town had once belonged to the streets. Their laughter rattled off the cracked sidewalks, their games stretched across alleys and fields, and dusk was a sign, not for disconnection, but for one more round of hide-and-seek or patintero, a daring jump over a...

58th Shell National Students Art Competition “ALAB” Ignites Creativity, Crowns 15 Talented Filipino Artists

Manila, Philippines. December 2025 — Fifteen talented Filipino artists from across the country were honored at the 58th Shell National Students Art Competition (NSAC) Awarding Ceremony, held at the Ayala Museum in Makati. This year, the competition received 2,200 entries from across the Philippines, all responding to...