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Being Anna Mae Lamentillo: Lessons on gender equality & how to bridge the gender gap

She started young. Born Feb. 7, 1991 to a seaman father with Spanish lineage and a businesswoman mother from a Chinese family, Anna Mae...

World Pandesal Day gives free 100,000 Pandesal

launches free Medical, Dental and Optical mission benefitting 4 Quezon City schools Some 100,000 free Pandesal breads and other foods were distributed to urban poor...

Commissioners for Good Governance

The Governance Commission for Government-Owned or -Controlled Corporations (GCG) has to oversee more than 100 GOCCs. Republic Act 10149 or the “GOCC Governance Act of...

Memories of Balangiga

I grew up in the remote town of Balangiga in Eastern Samar, which, as history described, became a “howling wilderness” during the Philippine-American War...

From Presidents to common folk: Tales from the piano

Whatever the pianists' individual differences in taste, grooming and temperament, no one can deny that in terms of international exposure, the Philippines has been...

A last look at 2020

Australian bushfire A raging bushfire engulfed Australia’s Kangaroo Island on Jan. 3. For five months, from October 2019 until March 2020, several bush fires blazed...

DA allots P400M for urban agri for household food security

The Department of Agriculture (DA) is allotting P400 million under the “Bayanihan to Recover As One Act” or “Bayanihan 2” to further expand the...

Waking up the sleeping giant

A roadmap for agriculture & fisheries Unlike some appointees, Agriculture Secretary William D. Dar practically breezed through the Commission on Appointments during his confirmation in...

China, Philippines agree to upgrade ties, jointly build Belt and Road

China and the Philippines agreed on Nov. 20 to upgrade their ties to comprehensive strategic cooperation and jointly advance the Belt and Road construction. The...

House passes Bangsamoro Organic Law

Ratified at last! These were the three words uttered by the Committee on Information of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s Central Committee after learning that...