PRESIDENT Aquino, assisted by Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Director General Emmanuel Joel Villanueva, distributes ballers to the participants of the 7th Puregold ‘Tindahan Ni Aling Puring Sari-Sari Store’ Convention during the tour and inspection of the booths at the World Trade Center at the corner of Gil Puyat Avenue Extension and Diosdado Macapagal Boulevard, Pasay City, yesterday. (Photo by: Robert Viñas / Malacañang Photo Bureau)
AMERICAN contemporary ballet company Trey McIntyre Project performs at Central Philippine University in Iloilo City. Its 10-day Philippine tour is a joint program of the U.S. Embassy in Manila and the Cultural Center of the Philippines. (Photo by Tara Yap)
CAGAYAN’s Junar Arce (center) finds himself sandwiched by Gio Ciriacruz and Kelly Nabong of Blackwater during PBA D-League action last night at The Arena in San Juan.
MIAMI Heat guard Dwyane Wade, foreground, regains control of the ball as he is guarded by Indiana Pacers guard Paul George, rear, during Game 2 of their NBA basketball Eastern Conference semifinal playoff series in Miami.
VENDORS arrange bananas in a makeshift stall on Road 10 in Tondo, Manila, as they sell ‘lakatan’ at P30 per kilo yesterday morning. The Philippines’ fruit exports to China, particularly bananas, seem to have trouble getting cleared by Chinese Customs amid a tense standoff between the two countries over the disputed islands on the West Philippine Sea. Fruit shipments, especially bananas, were rotting in Chinese ports because pests were allegedly discovered in some produce, prompting stricter quarantine inspections. (Photo by Linus Escandor II)
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Bajo Scarburo
Manila, Philippines – THE nice thing about old maps is that they are incontestable. You can’t argue with old maps because they are official records of the past; a time that came and went long before we were born. Well-respected legislator and good friend Sen. Edgardo J. Angara is citing old maps to disprove the territorial claim of China on Panatag Shoal and its surrounding waters. Angara,...
Boracay’s water
Manila, Philippines – TOURISM Secretary Ramon Jimenez led the inauguration of the one-kilometer submarine water pipeline along the CaticlanBoracay channel that will augment the existing 13-year old pipeline supplying water to Boracay from mainland Malay Town. Jimene’z presence in Boracay brings to fore pressing development issues plaguing the island such as zoning and environmental concerns. “We...
So many OFWs in distress
Manila, Philippines – AT least 27 Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs), four of them women, are facing the death penalty in the Middle East. Most of them were convicted for murder. In sunny Malaysia, six Filipinos are on the death row. Five of these six OFWs were convicted for drugrelated cases. Nearby, in Indonesia, a Filipina is meted a death sentence for allegedly serving as a drug mule for a...
Catholic splendor
Manila, Philippines – FILIPINO Catholics everywhere still mark each Lenten season with much prayer, devotion, and introspection. Even as popular media tend to focus more on the summer escapades that coincide and overtake Holy Week, it is a fact that come Holy Thursday and Good Friday, the clock of merriment stops and is replaced by the hourglass of prayer. I do not know of any true-blue Filipino...
CSR Summit set in Boracay
Manila, Philippines – FROM world-class tourist paradise to global corporate maven this seems to be the trajectory of Aklan’s beautiful Boracay Island this 2012. No less than Singapore’s leader in the conference industry, The Pinnacle Group, has chosen Boracay as the venue for their 4th Global CSR Summit and Awards, considered as the most prestigious recognition awards program...
Heavenly bodies to visit Aklan
Manila, Philippines – Aklanons may finally meet the women of their dreams. Plans are now underway to explore the possibility of having this year’s bevy of Ms. World candidates visit Aklan. What better way of enhancing the enchanting allure of Aklan’s fave Boracay than to have the most beautiful women in the world leisurely lie on its baby powder-fine sands? Sources said Miss World Philippines...
Time for a tourism summit
Manila, Philippines – LEST the rains fool you, it will be summer soon. For many old folks, the line to summer begins with Ash Wednesday, the start of the Season of Lent. And with summer comes vacations and visits to fun places, enough to fire up businesses of resort owners and other denizens of the tourism industry from resort owner to sampaguita vendor. Tourist arrivals in 2011 surpassed...
Arts and the Filipino youth
Manila, Philippines – LOOK around. How many of the youths of today are diehards of Korean, Japanese, or even Taiwanese telenovelas? How many of them ape their looks and mannerisms, and dream of moving to Korea, Japan or Taiwan? After World War II, we saw generation after generation of Filipinos who wanted to look and act like Americans. The nationalists among us called their kind as people “stricken...
Net Tours
Manila, Philippines – THINK 60 years back, before the advent of television, cable TV, and the world wide web. Back then, one sure had to walk a lot and brush up on polite conversation to get a date, much more push a business. In those times, friends were mostly people you knew since grade school. Salesmen had to go house to house to sell gadgets and stuff. Summer vacation usually meant going...
