Filipinos join US Election watch party in Quezon City, Philippines
Filipinos converged at SM North EDSA mall in Quezon City to follow the U.S. presidential elections. The U.S. Embassy in Manila organized the watch party titled "U.S. Election Watch 2012" to allow...
View ArticleFilipinos join US Elections watch party in Quezon City, Philippines
Filipinos converged at SM North EDSA mall in Quezon City to follow the U.S. presidential elections. The U.S. Embassy in Manila organized the watch party titled "U.S. Election Watch 2012" to allow...
View ArticlePhilippine jeepney goes electric
The popular means of public transportation at the University of the Philippines (UP) goes electric. Electric jeepneys (e-jeeps) have started plying the route from the university's campus in Diliman to...
View ArticlePhilippine jeep goes "green
An electric jeep stops at a transport terminal in the University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines.
View ArticleUniversity of the Philippines mourns death of student
The Oblation statue at the University of the Philippines (UP) in Diliman, Quezon City, is draped black cloth as the university community mourns the death of a first-year Behavioral Science student from...
View ArticleCatholics celebrate Palm Sunday
Catholics celebrate Palm Sunday today worldwide. Pilgrims traditionally bring palm leaves or palm fronds to Masses today. This celebration marks the start of the Holy Week, a week when Catholics...
View ArticleCardinal Tagle washes feet of election workers for Holy Thursday
Catholics all over the world remembered the last supper of Jesus with his apostles on March 28 dubbed as “Maundy Thursday”. In Manila, Philippines, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, archbishop of Manila,...
View ArticleThe North Korea crisis affects Filipinos too
If the tension on the Korean peninsula escalates, it wouldn't just affect the citizens of the two Koreas or even Americans in Guam. It would also affect the thousands of Filipinos living and working in...
View ArticleFilipinos travel long and far just to vote
These Filipinos only want one thing. And that is to participate in the midterm elections on Monday, May 13. They endured intense heat and long lines in a public transport terminal in Quezon City,...
View ArticleFilipinos travel long and far just to vote
The heat was intense, and the lines were very long. But thousands of Filipinos braved these just so they hop on a bus and reach their hometowns. Filipinos who trooped to the Araneta Center Bus Station...
View ArticlePhilippines Votes 2013
Filipinos troop to polling centers on Monday, May 13, for the 2013 Philippine midterm elections. These photos were taken at the Morning Breeze Elementary School in Caloocan City, Philippines. Filipinos...
View ArticleGiving "Inferno" by Dan Brown A Chance
I love "Angel & Demons," Dan Brown's first Robert Langdon novel. The novel revolved around topics that I'm really fascinated with—Italian culture, Catholicism and the papacy. I've also read "Da...
View ArticleInternational Museum Day 2013
Filipinos celebrated the International Museum Day today, May 18, by going to the National Museum in Manila, Philippines. The National Museum houses the towering painting "Spoliarium" of Juan Luna, one...
View ArticleGrand Santacruzan 2013
During the month of May, Filipino communities stage "Santacruzan," a procession and a festival that depict Queen Helena's search for the True Cross—believed to be the cross upon which Jesus was...
View ArticleIs Manila the Gates of Hell? Dan Brown thinks so
Note: This may contain spoilers on Dan Brown's latest novel, "Inferno." Manila is the gates of hell. That's how American author Dan Brown described the capital of the Philippines in his latest novel,...
View ArticleIs Manila the Gates of Hell? Dan Brown thinks so
Note: This may contain spoilers on Dan Brown's latest novel, "Inferno." Manila is the gates of hell. That's how American author Dan Brown described the capital of the Philippines in his latest novel,...
View ArticleWorld's Largest Ten Commandments Tablet
When one looks at the skyline of Baguio, north of Manila, one would see an unlikely structure. Unveiled in 2011, the towering Ten Commandments tablet is as tall as a three-story building and has an...
View ArticleMr. Hot, Baguio City's star barista
When one goes to Burnham Park at the heart of Baguio City, one will surely not miss an interesting character fondly called as "Mr. Hot." Mr. Hot may not have the looks of a Prince Charming but he...
View ArticleThe family of flag makers
As the celebration of the Philippine flag days continues and the commemoration of the Philippine Independence Day on June 12 nears, flag makers in Santa Cruz, Manila, work around the clock to fulfill...
View ArticleMusic from the Cordilleras
Long years of being colonized may have greatly changed the Filipino's identity, but a group still strives to preserve what's left of the unique music from the Cordillera region found in the northern...
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