Over the past years, the Philippines has seen a new breed of women emerging, successfully taking on top brass positions as well as bigger and more daunting roles in the family and society.
Julie and Rob would take the same train going to work every day for one year. She was attracted to him but did not know how to get to know him.
Bahay Pastulan is more popularly known for its Good Shepherd Tagaytay store that has been selling homemade goodies such as ube jam and other selections over the last 18 years. It is run by the Maryridge community of the Religious of the Good Shepherd Sisters (RGS), a Catholic congregation that set foot in the Philippines about a century ago.
One could say that Manila Amiga Academy—a primary school that caters to an indigent community in Taguig City—is a victim of its own success.
Our country is visited yearly by about 20 to 24 tropical cyclones. Many Filipinos are aware of this and yet every year we witness roofs that are blown away during typhoons due to poor design and substandard construction methods and materials.
Rarely does a corporation get the chance to build its own home. Too often, offices are rented spaces and the easy answer to the need for more space as the corporation grows is simply to rent more space.
I was walking across one of the exhibition halls when I stumbled upon the final deliberation of the student charrette. Up on stage was the team of five architecture students from the University of San Carlos in Cebu, coming unto friendly scrutiny from the competition judges as they delivered their final presentation for the Student Division of this architectural design competition. This was early October in Singapore, Day 3 of the World Architecture Festival.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will likely increase its significant aid to the Philippines, citing the “massive challenge” the government faces in rebuilding areas destroyed by Supertyphoon ‘‘Yolanda’’.
A streaking ball of ice, dust and rock dubbed by some science journalists as the “Comet of the Century” will make its very first trip around the sun on Thursday, keeping astronomers on tenterhooks as to whether or not it will “sizzle or fizzle.”
A tragedy-befallen community can rise and be reborn into one that is stronger and more vibrant. The lesson of the mythical phoenix rising from the ashes of its own ruins was learned by the people of Negros Occidental in the early 80s when sugar prices toppled in the world markets, shutting down sugar cane plantations and bringing about pervasive unemployment and hunger and pockets of insurgency.
Economic losses brought on by Supertyphoon Yolanda have gone up further to P10.59 billion, according to the Department of Agriculture.
Banks in areas affected by Supertyphoon “Yolanda” are slowly getting their operations up and running, helping the public access their own money to rebuild lost homes.
