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By VANNE ELAINE P. TERRAZOLA While already deciding not to hold a miting de avance, youth supporters of Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago organized on Saturday a “street party” in front of her law office in Quezon City to cap off the senator’s election bid. Some 300 members of the Youth for Miriam Movement trooped in front of the Defensor-Santiago Offices in West 4th St., West Triangle and held a party for the senator’s last day of campaign. Supporters of Presidentiable Miriam Defensor Santiago and... Читать дальше...

With an estimated crowd of 300,000, PDP-Laban presidential bet Rodrigo Duterte may have drawn the largest number of supporters among presidential candidates who staged “miting de avances” to cap their respective campaigns. Supporters of Presidential bet and Davao Mayor Rodrigo Duterte unfold a giant Philippines flag as they start to crowd Duterte’s venue for his ‘Miting de Abanse’ in front of the Quirino Grandstand in Manila on Saturday afternoon. (JOHN JEROME GANZON)   Taking his last campaign stand at the spacious Rizal Park... Читать дальше...

Tomorrow, at least 54.3 million Filipino voters will troop to the polling precincts as respondents of the actual and real poll survey for all candidates, especially the presidential bets, on whom the nation’s utmost attention will be glued right from the opening of the polling places until the winners are formally proclaimed late this month. While pollsters will be quick to give credence to the results of their pre-election survey studies, the most important poll tomorrow will give each candidate... Читать дальше...

“Mother and child” has been a favorite subject among artists since time immemorial. Its timeless and universal appeal, which

Jason Francisco is open to forgiving a netizen who posted a malicious remark against his and Melai Cantiveros’ two-year-old daughter.

Anton del Castillo’s “A Child’s Memory” takes upon the dialectics of memory, gender, and transforming or transformative spaces.

To further celebrate family, friendship and love, Lancaster New City recently held the Grand Family Weekend Fun Run in Cavite last

We wish for more breastfeeding stations in public places such as malls. We want it to be clean, sanitary, and well-ventilated for our baby.

Actor Paulo Avelino has no problem with rumored ex-girlfriend KC Concepcion’s admission that she’s now dating Azkals player Alexander “Aly” Borromeo.

As one of the free world’s oldest allies, the United States and the Philippines have shared a storied past together. From fighting

There’s no denying Sharon Cuneta’s success. Decades since starting her career in the early ’80s, she continues to be among the

Malacañang yesterday frowned upon China’s proposed resumption of bilateral talks on the territorial dispute in the West Philippine Sea with the next administration. Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Zhao Jinhua had said they will continue to monitor the developments on Philippine elections, adding that they are hoping for bilateral talks with the next administration concerning the territorial dispute in the West Philippine Sea/South China Sea. Presidential Communications Development and Strategic... Читать дальше...

Tomorrow is national and local Elections Day. Exercise your sovereign right to vote. But vote wisely and responsibly. Here are the “10 Commandments for Responsible Voting,” prepared by the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV): * * * 1) Thou shalt vote according to the dictates of your conscience. 2) Thou shalt respect the decision of others in choosing their candidates. 3) Thou shalt seek to know the moral integrity, capabilities, and other personal qualities of the candidates you will vote for. Читать дальше...

Cotabato City — The Maguindanao-based Sixth Infantry Division (6th ID) has activated its 1,000-member security task force to help ensure peaceful proceedings in Monday’s polls in Central Mindanao, especially in areas of electoral concern in the province.

THE LAST FEW DAYS BEFORE A BIG ELECTION IS THE BEST TIME TO MAKE PEACE WITH ONE’S SELF, WITH ONE’S BITTEREST RIVALS AND CRITICS, AND WITH THE REST OF THE WORLD. TO THOSE WHO CONSIDER PUBLIC SERVICE IN AN ELECTIVE POSITION AS A SACRED OBLIGATION – BECAUSE IT IS LADEN WITH ONE’S COMMITMENT TO THE ELECTORATE TO UNDERTAKE REFORMS THAT WOULD LEAD TO THE PEOPLE’S BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE AND THEIR EMPOWERMENT TO ACHIEVE THEIR FUTURE ASPIRATIONS – THIS WEEK BEFORE ELECTION DAY 2016 IS THUS MORE PRECIOUS AND MORE CRUCIAL THAN OTHER PERIODS. Читать дальше...

It would have been best if all the presidential candidates had come to attend the mass celebrated by Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle at the Manila Cathedral last Monday, May 2, even if only for the symbolic unity they would have presented to the nation at this time of such great discord and conflict in the closing days of the election campaign. In his sermon, Archbishop Tagle called on the candidates to make it clear to themselves what human dignity and human rights means to them. As for the voters... Читать дальше...

The Balete Pass, which served as one of the main battlefields for joint American and Filipino soldiers fighting the Japanese Imperial

Attendees of this big event were not surprised to see Sexy Actress (SA) walking within their ranks and enjoying the various shows and gimmicks. But then she started behaving “oddly” which got people thinking “Is she on something?”

Conventional plant breeding for the most part involves the hybridization of two parents — a recurrent parent which has otherwise desirable attributes except for one or two traits, e.g. susceptibility to a disease, and a second parent called a non-recurrent parent which possesses the desirable trait missing in the former. After the initial hybridization, the offsprings with the new desirable trait are backcrossed to the recurrent parent to recover the rest of the desirable genome. By the 6th backcross generation... Читать дальше...

Let me start with a true story told to me by the son whose father was in the government and close to the late President Sergio Osmeña.

A guide to building strong mother-child connections

Even before the voting precincts open on Monday (May 9, 2016), Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. has already claimed victory against his rivals in the vice presidential derby saying he is ready to be the country’s next vice president.

UNITED NATIONS — Kazakhstan is seeking to encourage a wide ranging discussion of the role of religion in fighting extremism and terrorism and it is calling for a nuclear free world by 2045, the 100th anniversary of the United Nations, as the Central Asian nation makes its first bid for a seat on the Security Council.

These ladies weren’t raising their fist to say Black Panthers. They were raising it to say Beyoncé

Presidential aspirant and former Department of Interior and Local Government Secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas II declared that he will be continuing his bid for presidency after a failed call for unity with Senator Grace Poe, who is also running for president.