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SunStar + March 11, 2021 IN CELEBRATION of the 500 years of Christianity in Philippine soil this year, experts present during the 5th anniversary of Palm Grass Hotel’s Kapihan ni Lumaya looked back to the precolonial Visayas through food as an instrument of pleasure and resistance. One of the anniversary activities was the Lami ug Palami forum on Feb. 28, 2021, which Palm Grass Hotel organized in cooperation with the Department of Education Region 7, Museo Sugbo, and National Nut...

SunStar Andrea Mizpah Flores is Mutya ng Tagum City 2021 DAVAO. A 19-year-old photojournalist, Andrea Mizpah Flores, is the new Mutya ng Tagum City. She is crowned by the former mutya Jelymp Postrero and Mayor Allan L. Rellon during the grand coronation night held last March 7 at the newly inaugurated Tagumpay Theatre inside the City Historical and Cultural Center. (Photo by CIO Tagum) DAVAO. Another set of empowered women from all 23 barangays of the city showed tha...

endIndex: Damian Domingos illustrations of Filipino women from Pampanga and Ilocos wearing a tapis. Photos from THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY Pre-colonial dress is an important part of Philippine fashion that shouldn’t be overlooked. As with any material archive, examining the clothing of our ancestors can give us a peek into their complex world. For one, visual evidence of the pre-colonial Filipina’s place in society can be found in her fashion choices. Whereas the Western world had strict female...

Food security and Covid-19: Recognising women’s leadership Over half the world’s farmers and food producers are women. A study will look at their experiences in the covid crisis. Women farmers harvesting rice in Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines, 2015 (International Labour Organisation/Flickr) Published 8 Mar 2021 15:00   0 Comments   “Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physica...

John C. Cannon – 113,047 pageviews A recent study in the journal Conservation Letters warns that African swine fever, responsible for millions of pig deaths in mainland Asia since 2018, now endangers 11 wild pig species living in Southeast Asia. These pig species generally have low populations naturally, and their numbers have dwindled further due to hunting and loss of habitat. The authors of the study contend that losing these species could hurt local economies and food security. Southeast ...

Press Release March 9, 2021 Mr. President, my dear colleagues, I rise on a matter of personal and collective privilege. Last week, on March 3, World Wildlife Day was celebrated. It was designated as such in 1973 during the Sixty-sixth Session of the United Nations General Assembly in commemoration of the adoption of CITES or the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. The theme of this years celebration was "Forests and Livelihood: Sustaining People and ...

Police launched dragnets in four provinces two days after the president said kill communist rebels.

President Rodrigo Roa Duterte (PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO / FILE / MANILA BULLETIN) The President vowed to weed out corrupt public servants in the bureaucracy, and even force them to “eat money.” “We lost a lot of money, honestly. There are so many instances. You can say we lost 17 billion to corruption,” the President said in Visayan during his visit to Cagayan de Oro City Friday, March 5. “Didn’t I tell you when I was campaigning? I said I would eliminate corruption,” said Duterte, who ...

Latest threat by Philippine president ignites fears of a new wave of violence similar to deadly drug war.

Published March 6, 2021, 2:25 PM Is President Duterte eyeing his former aide and now Senator Christopher Go as his possible successor? President Rodrigo Roa Duterte holds a meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) core members at the Matina Enclaves in Davao City on August 24, 2020. SIMEON CELI JR./PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO The President heaped praises on Go for his hard work and described him as “Presidente” during a visit to Cagayan de Oro Friday, M...