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When MECQ rules ease and travel bans are lifted, plan a trip to Iloilo City, where eating is always a festival.

Northern Light is a book by Kazim Ali.(Goose Lane Editions) Kazim Ali was the child of South Asian immigrants, who unexpectedly spent years of his childhood in the small Manitoba town of Jenpeg, a town that existed because of the hydroelectric dam nearby. As an adult, he found himself wondering about the town: did it even exist anymore? And if it did, what was it like? These questions sent him on a journey, one that looked at the environmental destruction the dam caused, and the local Pimic...

May 25, 2021 THE Commission on Population and Development (Popcom) has identified 1,272 barangays nationwide as having the highest number of Covid-19 cases in the country, averaging 137 cases over an eight-month period from September 2020 to April 15, 2021. Popcom, however, noted that 15,252 communities remained "Covid-free" then. The agency has classified the 1,272 barangays as "high-population density (HD)," with populations ranging from 201 to 999 per hectare, well above the ave...

CALOOCAN CITY, May 24 (PIA) — The Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM) on Sunday reported that around 1,272 barangays registered the highest COVID-19 cases in the country.In a statement sent to the PIA-NCR, POPCOM said these barangays recorded an average of 137 infections over an...

QUEZON CITY, May 23 — The Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM) has identified 1,272 barangays nationwide as having the highest number of COVID-19 cases in the country, averaging 137 cases over an eight-month period from September 2020 to April 15, 2021. Such numbers compare to an...

President Duterte delivers a public address on May 17, 2021 (Malacañang) The latest appeal was made by President Duterte after asking his Cabinet members to avoid honoring him with titles usually suited for a god. In a meeting with officials Monday, the President frowned on being called “Mahal na Pangulo” and “Ginoong Presidente,” insisting he was no god. According to the President, while “ginoo” means “mister” in Filipino, it also means “god” in Visayan. “May request lan...

Košice Zoo welcomes a prickly new creature The first North American porcupine and a few rare great hornbills become members of the animal family in Košice. (Source: Zoo Košice) The Košice Zoo has welcomed a baby porcupine, a first in Slovakia. The cub named Hugo was born in April, the TASR newswire reported. "The porcupine has very similar characteristics to a hystrix but is actually much closer to the guinea pig family," said zoologist Patrik Pastorek, as quoted by TASR. "Its quills are s...

Published May 18, 2021, 1:02 PM Every summer, perhaps no topic is more controversial than when electricity supply in the country teeters at breaking point – and with cacophony of reasons, consumers get agitated with probabilities of brownouts or spikes in their electric bills. From that industry’s recurrent shoddy cycle, Aboitiz Power Corporation bifurcates business decision –not just by simply muting the noise but by factoring in market signals for it to take the upper edge on its operat...

ANGEL THOUGHTS Breaking in love, light, and hope Hold still, feel the warmth. —Sandee S. Masigan “I have heard it before, that many of us arrive at a crossroads and that moment asks a difficult question—“Which way?” Businessman-turned-social activist and game-changer Jose Montelibano of Bacolod City, more fondly known as Boy, shares his thoughts on his life-changing experiences over the past 17 years, thanks to him joining the movement, Gawad Kalinga. “The difficulty is not because ...

Starting with the soothing soundscapes that Joe Vince conjures up. On his latest single titled “Hilik,” Joe Vince lays down a lullabye-like number that leans a bit on the side of alt-pop.  Joe Vince is an emotional communicator much like his heroes Noel Cabangon and Johnoy Danao. A deep-voiced balladeer who makes good use of the tools available to him. His minimalist acoustic finger style guitar approach on “Hilik” says that he is above the average acoustic guitar-toting singer who ...