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MY LIFE AS AN UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT

0 Comments 22 June 2011

By Jose Antonio Vargas Over the past 14 years, I’ve graduated from high school and college and built a career as a journalist, interviewing some of the most famous people in the country. On the surface, I’ve created a good life. I’ve lived the American dream. But I am still an undocumented immigrant. READ FULL STORY

Travel

DESTINATION WEDDING BOOSTS PH TOURISM

0 Comments 05 June 2011

By KC M. Abalos The recipe for the perfect wedding—warm weather, a lovely sunset, and really good food—where to find these? According to a study by the Department of Tourism, within the period of 2007 and 2008, there was a 14% growth rate for foreign nationals choosing to get married here in the Philippines. And based on [...]

Travel

THIS PARADISE CALLED TUBBATAHA

0 Comments 22 May 2011

Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park is one of the five UNESCO World Heritage Sites of the Philippines and the only pure marine World Heritage Site in Southeast Asia. Most of us know it as a unique paradise for divers. But it has more to offer: it contains two small islets situated on the rim of atolls, [...]

Sports

THE SOCIAL EFFECTS OF MANNY PACQUIAO

0 Comments 12 May 2011

In recent years, one of the most interesting phenomena ever to emerge from Philippine media is the Manny Pacquiao phenomenon. There has never been anything quite like it before. READ FULL STORY

Current Affairs

MAKE WAY FOR THE E-JEEPNEY

1 Comment 06 May 2011

By Pepper Marcelo With rising oil prices and worsening air pollution, Filipinos are looking into clean and green technology as the only viable option for the country’s transport industry. This is gladly manifested in the people’s growing fascination with and acceptance of the electric jeepney, or e-jeepney, that environmentally-friendly version of the iconic, World War II-era [...]

Current Affairs

GMA EMBRACES HOUSEWIFE ROLE

0 Comments 07 April 2011

By Nathalie Tomada The Freeman Former President and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is nicely adjusting to a less stressful and hurried life even as she embraces the housewife role she said she never had before. In her first media interview since leaving the presidency last June, the congresswoman of Pampanga’s second district looked relaxed in a light [...]

Current Affairs

AFTER COLLEGE, NOW WHAT?

0 Comments 30 March 2011

By Pepper Marcelo It’s graduation time again. In a country where one’s worth is often measured by his educational attainment, finishing college is one of the highly anticipated milestones. Never mind that the graduate is at the bottom of the class or that he came from one of those diploma mills. What matters most to many [...]

Current Affairs

IS METRO MANILA PREPARED FOR THE BIG ONE?

0 Comments 16 March 2011

About 34,000 people dead instantly and 24,000 dead or dying in the rubble. About 110,000 injured and needing immediate treatment. Five hundred fires raging simultaneously. Metro Manila faces these and several other horrific scenes should it be hit by a 7.2-magnitude earthquake, says a report by a multinational intelligence firm. READ FULL STORY

Current Affairs

BATTLE ON PARADISE ISLAND

0 Comments 06 March 2011

By Karl Malakunas Agence France-Presse PUERTO PRINCESA – For tourists the Philippine island of Palawan seems like paradise, but for environment activists it feels more akin to a battlefield. Murders and threats on what is promoted as the Southeast Asian nation’s last ecological frontier are emblematic of a struggle across the country, where dozens of environment campaigners have [...]

People

PHILIPPINE BLOGGER STIRS A FASHION REVOLUTION

0 Comments 04 March 2011

By Cecil Morella Agence France Press MANILA — Philippine blogger Bryan Yambao went from reading his mother’s magazines to the front rows of the world’s top catwalks at warp speed, as the Internet demolishes the exclusive barriers of high fashion. Supermodel-thin and fond of wearing colorful hats, fur-collared cardigans and handbags, the 24-year-old is now an industry heavyweight [...]

MY LIFE AS AN UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT

DESTINATION WEDDING BOOSTS PH TOURISM

THIS PARADISE CALLED TUBBATAHA

THE SOCIAL EFFECTS OF MANNY PACQUIAO

MAKE WAY FOR THE E-JEEPNEY

GMA EMBRACES HOUSEWIFE ROLE

AFTER COLLEGE, NOW WHAT?

IS METRO MANILA PREPARED FOR THE BIG ONE?

BATTLE ON PARADISE ISLAND

PHILIPPINE BLOGGER STIRS A FASHION REVOLUTION

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