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[Only IN Hollywood] Play highlights Fil-Am family life in US, served with...
LOS ANGELES, USA – “The beautiful complexity of being Filipino and Filipino American in America.” Playwright Nicholas Pilapil wanted to highlight that, and that’s how God Will Do the Rest was born....
View Article[Two Pronged] My mother wants forgiveness, but I don’t want anything to do...
Rappler’s Life and Style section runs an advice column by couple Jeremy Baer and clinical psychologist Dr. Margarita Holmes. Jeremy has a master’s degree in law from Oxford University. A banker of 37...
View ArticleJune Mar Fajardo adds to legend with 8th PBA MVP, banners Leo Awards honor roll
MANILA, Philippines – Before June Mar Fajardo came along, no player in the PBA had won more than four Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards. Now, the 6-foot-10 star has twice as many wins. The San Miguel...
View ArticleBlinken to push for Gaza ceasefire; Israel launches fresh strikes
CAIRO, Egypt – Israeli strikes killed 19 people in Gaza on Sunday, August 18, including six children, Palestinian health authorities said, ahead of a visit to the region by US Secretary of State...
View ArticleEight years later, Iloilo officials push back on Duterte’s drug war label
BACOLOD, Philippines – Eight years after Iloilo was labeled by former president Rodrigo Duterte as having the worst drug problem in the country due to the alleged involvement of local politicians, its...
View Article[DASH of SAS] Dear Senator Padilla, ‘No’ is a complete sentence
Dear Senator Robin Padilla, Your projection of masculinity which made you popular in the ’90s, and presumably even got you elected to the Senate when acting no longer served as a viable source of...
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Will Sara Duterte still get parliamentary courtesy in budget hearings?
In the past two years, it was a walk in the park for Vice President Sara Duterte to get her budget request approved. Budget hearings, both in the Senate and the House of Representatives, had...
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Russia declares US Clooney Foundation an undesirable organization
Russian prosecutors said on Monday, August 19, they had designated The Clooney Foundation for Justice, a US non-profit group, as an “undesirable” organization for carrying out work at “a Hollywood...
View ArticleCoritha and the tragic story of Filipino legacy artists
This story first appeared in ourbrew.ph. MANILA, Philippines – By the early 1980s, Pinoy Rock and its mellower sibling Pinoy folk-rock have reached a saturation point of sorts. The mass market has...
View ArticleChina takes aim at ‘chaotic’ fan groups after Olympians abused online
HONG KONG – China’s government and official sporting bodies have condemned fans for using social media to attack and spread rumors about the country’s Olympians and said the behavior had an extremely...
View ArticleFormer New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to attend US Democratic...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will attend the Democratic National Convention that begins on Monday, August 19 (August 20, Manila time) in Chicago, Ardern’s...
View ArticleMaybank becomes first commercial bank to offer Islamic banking services
MANILA, Philippines – Maybank Philippines is now the country’s first private commercial bank to offer Shariah-compliant services with the inauguration of its Islamic banking unit. Situated in...
View ArticleAlice Guo already left PH on July 18 – Hontiveros
MANILA, Philippines – Senator Risa Hontiveros on Monday, August 19, said that dismissed mayor Alice Guo of Bamban, Tarlac left the Philippines on July 18. In her privilege speech, Hontiveros bared a...
View ArticleCall for participants: UP Resilience Institute Quake Quest competition
The following is a press release from the UP Resilience Institute. The UP Resilience Institute and UP Intelligence Systems Center is proud to announce Quake Quest: Unleashing Innovations in Seismology...
View ArticleIndia’s top court sets up doctors’ panel on workplace safety after rape, murder
NEW DELHI, India – India’s Supreme Court ordered on Tuesday, August 20, the setting up of a national task force of doctors to make recommendations on safety at their workplace, days after the rape and...
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After almost 4 months, Hans Cacdac confirmed as DMW secretary
MANILA, Philippines – After almost four months in ad interim status, long-time labor and migration official Hans Leo Cacdac secured confirmation on his appointment as secretary of the Department of...
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‘Illegal demolition’ threatens century-old village in Tarlac
PAMPANGA, Philippines – Fredie Laurente, 69, has spent his entire life in Barangay Central in Hacienda Luisita, Tarlac City, where his family and forebearers have lived since 1925. Alongside 987 other...
View ArticleUS says Iran cyber operations targeted Trump, Harris campaigns
WASHINGTON, USA – The United States on Monday, August 19, accused Iran of launching cyber operations against the campaigns of both US presidential candidates and targeting the American public with...
View ArticleIsraeli military retrieves bodies of 6 hostages held in Gaza
JERUSALEM – Israel retrieved the bodies of six hostages from the Khan Younis area in southern Gaza overnight, according to statements from the military and the prime minister’s office on Tuesday,...
View Article[WATCH] #KomyuterDiaries: The duality of Cubao as a transport hub
MANILA, Philippines – Cubao as a transport hub — thumbs up or thumbs down? Several public transportation vehicles from different parts of Metro Manila, the Greater Manila area, and some provinces in...
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