CLEAN, CLEAR

Nanay Puring recalls drinking water from Pasig River in 40′s (Second of a series) By YFUR PORSCHE P. FERNANDEZ MB Research Manila, Philippines – “It was so huge, so clean and so clear–you could mirror yourself in the water. Lovers spent quality time while riding a boat, where they would later make their pledges,“ recalled 84-year-old Purificacion “Nanay Puring“... 

Gunmen torch North Cotabato school

MAKILALA, N Cotabato – Armed men torched a building of the Gocotan Elementary School at Barangay Gocotan, one of the remotest villages in Pikit town in North Cotabato, around 7:30 p.m., Friday, police said. SPO3 Sandique Sulayman, chief investigator of the Pikit Police, said the fire damaged the classroom of Grade Six and all the reference materials inside, including kitchen utensils,...