Category: Culture
BY GREG CASTILLA – Xavier is our first grandchild who turned six years old last April 4. As Covid-19 continues to wreak havoc and majority of us are under stay-at-home orders, I’ve started to feel the quarantine blues. I guess…
BY AILA LENARD – The book,“Perdon Family: A Journey”* is Renato Perdon’s 11th publication. I have read most of his books. The previous ones were products of years of painstaking research into the history of the Philippines. The number of history…
BY GREG CASTILLA – IN TIMES of great crisis like the unspeakable sufferings that the coronavirus has inflicted on so many people, young and old alike, it’s more than natural for people to ask: Where is God? Asking the question…
BY RADO GATCHALIAN – (Introspection on the life of Philippine hero Apolinario Mabini) Apolinario Mabini was born on 23 July 1864 in Tanauan, Batangas. From my history class two things I remember about him: “The Sublime Paralytic” and “The Brains…
Ideal Gift to friends on many occasions. Handy and slim book on Philippine History “Footnotes on Philippine History” by Renato Perdon is a practical briefing on the Philippines, a ready help for Filipino expatriates and foreign born Filipinos. Very appropriate…
Husband and wife community leaders and housing cooperative experts Mr Ruben Amores and Dr Cen Amores spoke before a seminar on a proposed Multicultural Elderly Cooperativewhich was held at Berala Community Centre in Berala, NSW last Saturday 27 November 2017.…
PASIG CITY, Philippines – Despite being listed by the World Economic Forum as the best performer in gender outcomes among the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member-states, the Philippines exhibits wide gender disparities in economic opportunities, according to a…
ILOILO CITY, Philippines—The province of Iloilo contributed the highest yield in rice for the first quarter 2017 with 325,217 metric tons harvested in Western Visayas. James Ogatis, Information officer of the Department of Agriculture-6 said that Iloilo has the highest…
CHICAGO (JGL) A Filipino American employee of Walmart in Richmond, California will be crowned Mrs. San Carlos City, Pangasinan Association of California, Inc. (SCCPA) on the occasion of its 44th anniversary celebration on June 10 at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Burlingame,…
MANILA, Philippines – This summer season, the Philippine Postal Corporation (PHLPost) has released colorful stamps featuring the country’s popular fruits. Some of the images of popular fruits in the Philippines presented in postage stamps, include the Egg Fruit (Pouteriacampechiana) or…
