Tag: Focus

ARLENE P. CALLEJA, a pediatrician in Legazpi City southeast of the Philippine capital, has been spending the past few months responding to patients’ fears about the coronavirus pandemic.

By Pola Esguerra del Monte Assistant editor, BWorld University   The 1280x720 screen burst to life. Little people, now smaller than ever, begin talking in front of the...

By Zsarlene B. Chua “Satisfactory,” was how Marichu Vera Perez-Maceda, spokesperson of the Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) 2015 described the recently concluded film festival,...

ACCORDING to Metro Manila Film Festival spokesperson Marichu Vera Perez-Maceda, half the festival revenues come from cinemas in Metro Manila, and the rest from...

Bacon is bad. And so is ham, beef jerky, and all other kinds of processed meat. So said a report by the International Agency for Research...

It’s that time of year again, when you drag home a tree, unwrap your ornaments, and schlep out to the store to buy replacement...

By Michael Angelo S. Murillo On the surface, sports like basketball, volleyball and biking may seem mundane, best left to be learned early in life,...

By Zsarlene B. Chua, Reporter A recent study commissioned by the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) lifts the veil on the travel habits of Asian business travelers...

By Jasmine Agnes T. Cruz Filipino mothers are tech-savvy. They are online, are mobile first, and are the decision makers for household purchases. This is according...

By Victoria Fritz NEOGAN, a tiny village in Tagaytay city, is home to the Philippines’ only world-class restaurant (Antonio’s is the only restaurant in the...

By Jasmine Agnes T. Cruz, Reporter There are those who think that art is elitist, with prized objects hidden from view in posh museums, hard-to-find...

By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman Some are destined to be secretaries. Others are called to be teachers. Many choose to be nurses. While our...

By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman QUEZON CITY, the largest and the most populated city in Metro Manila, is now 75, and to mark the occasion,...

By Zsarlene Chua, Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman, Joseph Garcia  UNLIKE THE BLOODY assassination scene where katipuneros shoot and stab the lead character to death, Heneral Luna —...

THE FILM HENERAL LUNA, which has received much praise from critics and audience members, is notable for its commitment to producing a historically accurate...

By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman A BUSH fire in California ignited Pedro “Pete” Delantar’s passion to save what is left of Mother Earth one...

By Michael Angelo S. Murillo, Reporter IT WAS WIDELY believed to have been used as a “tactic” by the government then to divert the attention...

By Michael Angelo S. Murillo FROM its humble beginnings in the late 1950s when it was still known as the Southeast Asian Peninsula Games, the...

By Pola E. del Monte    YOUR CANDIDATE is now online. Political campaigning has expanded beyond the realm of TV, radio, and print media. Today,...

By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman PRINT’S NOT DEAD. Philippine Literature is not dead. It’s alive and perhaps, livelier than ever before. Does one need proof? Of...

By Pola Esguerra del Monte A PICTURE is worth a thousand words -- and a thousand pesos, if the caption indicates that it was taken...

IMAGINE that? It is the centennial of not one, not two -- but four of our National Artists this year! In the past two...

By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman THERE’S more to a child’s education than ABCs and 123s. In the words of a genius, Albert Einstein, who...

HE CHOREOGRAPHED the wand-fight sequences in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, earning him the title “the world’s only wand combat choreographer.”...

By Nickky de Guzman WE REGRET to inform you that you have not been selected for the position you are applying for, because you are fat. Or that...

By Carmencita A. Carilla DAVAO CITY -- The last remaining habitable torogan, a traditional Maranao abode for the village royal family, was declared in 1998...

By Juan EY Arcellana MANY years ago a student dropped out of professor Gemino Abad’s poetry class at the University of the Philippines because...

By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman THERE will be 10 regular holidays and nine special non-working days in 2016, the Palace recently announced. Are you...

By Pola Esguerra del Monte This story began with death — the death, 58 years ago, of the President whom the Filipino people fondly called...

By Susan Claire Agbayani Ricardo Lee, the Philippines’ most prominent screenwriter and one of most influential figures in the film industry, was awarded the 2015...

By Jasmine Agnes T. Cruz THE Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA), in its long history, has found a new, revamped identity in the limelight because...

By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman HOME to 79 natural lakes and 451 rivers, and being an archipelago, thus surrounded by water, the Philippines faces...