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BDO Foundation upgrades Ilocos Sur, Negros Occ and Surigao health centers

Driven by its mission to help improve the health and well-being of underserved Filipinos especially during the pandemic, BDO Foundation continued to rehabilitate health...

SM Foundation distributes Kalinga packs to fire victims in Olongapo

SM Foundation, through its Operation Tulong Express Program (OPTE), distributed Kalinga packs to 20 families affected by the recent fire incident in Brgy. Pag-Asa,...

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Philippines presents arts opportunities to the UK

The British Council in the Philippines is pleased to announce the four-day event, Partner South East Asia: Arts and Culture Matters, taking place online...

Fortune Life inks MOA with PMAG, PARDSS FII and TFK

Fortune Life Insurance Company, Inc., represented by its Executive Vice President and General Manager Emma M. Abad and First Vice President for Group Sales...

Mega Malasakit response to COVID 19

Conglomerates in the country have been helping in the government’s COVID-19 response big-time. And with the decline in the transmissibility of the virus, there...

SSS opens penalty condonation program for short-term member loans

Member-borrowers with past due short-term loans may apply for the Social Security System’s (SSS) Penalty Condonation Program via online using their My.SSS accounts starting...

#STOP Online sexual abuse and exploitation of children through football

Football for Humanity and sports education partner Coaches Across Continents (CAC) kicked-off a series of online training sessions as part of its campaign to...

Facebook froze as anti-vaccine comments swarmed users

To study ways to reduce vaccine misinformation, Facebook researchers changed how posts are ranked for more than 6,000 users in the U.S., Mexico, Brazil,...

SM Foundation’s mobile blood donation drive, free eye check-up in Cavite

SM Foundation, in collaboration with the Philippine Red Cross and Eye Saver Optical, recently conducted a bloodletting activity and provided free eye check-up and...

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Americana, on his back

My grandfather was shipped out of the Philippines in the 1920s, and landed in Stockton, California—less as a starry-eyed immigrant, and more as imperial cargo.  The Americans needed hands, and the Philippines—trophy from the Spanish-American War—had plenty to spare. Men like him crossed the Pacific not on a...

Of ‘balimbing’ and coup

It is balimbing season once again. Balimbing is a fruit with many sharp sides, so that it has been popularly used to describe agile politicians who are able to change sides quickly everytime there is a change in the political weather. It is the local term for...

4th Refugee Film Festival champions youth voices, stories of solidarity

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Philippines celebrated World Refugee Day by hosting the 4th Refugee Film Festival at the Natividad Fajardo-Rosario Gonzalez Auditorium of De La Salle University Manila last June 20. The film festival aimed to foster global awareness, build empathy, and mobilize meaningful action...