The author is 17-year-old student of Sacred Heart School-Hijas de Jesus in Cebu. Will Jay was a contestant in Voice of China (中國好聲音) Season 4 who got the four-chair turns but eventually eliminated in the knock-out round.
Last May 28, singer-songwriter Will Jay (劉偉男), whose birth month coincides with Tulay’s 31st anniversary, released a new song entitled, “I Can Only Write My Name.” The song is in honor of Asian American Pacific Islander Month. As an avid fan of Jay’s music, I quickly looked up the song. Though I personally love his […]
Inner city school kids received school supplies, vitamins, clothes and other goodies from a Chinese embassy diplomat who visited a learning center in Intramuros, Manila, June 8. The visit of Xie Yonghui, counselor to the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China, preceded the 18th Philippines-China Friendship Day on June 9. Xie was accompanied by […]
John Pomfret’s The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present (2017) contains a lot of historical material about the Philippines, although it is mainly a history of America and China. America in Chinese is 美國, which literally means beautiful country (美 mei in Mandarin, bi in Hokkien; 國 guo […]
Where there is trouble, there is opportunity. Recent events have given new life to this old cliché. The past months have been filled with news on the debacle created by a hostile United States government against Chinese telecommunication equipment maker Huawei Technologies. The tough measures imposed by President Donald Trump are intended to stymie the […]
A Chinese national suspected of kidnapping a Chinese-Australian in Manila was arrested by agents of the Philippine National Police-Anti-Kidnapping Group on May 28. Police rescued Chen Jianting, 29, at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 1 on May 27. He was kidnapped by five Chinese nationals on May 24 from a high-end casino in Manila […]
A man was enjoying a quiet meal in a Manila restaurant when two Chinese men entered boisterously, smoking their cigarettes. The security guard tried to tell them smoking was prohibited on the premises, but was rudely told it was none of his business. The diner stood up and requested the shorter of the two newcomers […]
In the Philippine struggle for independence from the Spanish overlords, and later from the American colonists, the Chinese were always in the picture. Across the sea, China’s reformists were inspired by Filipino revolutionaries who fought not one, but two, Western powers. Contacts were made between China’s leader of its revolution Dr. Sun Yat-sen and his […]
Four ex-cops and their civilian accomplice were convicted and given life imprisonment for the kidnap-slay 14 years ago of Taiwanese victim Michael H. Chan, alias Chiu Yu Hung. In her 64-page decision, presiding judge Janet Abergos Samar of Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 219 found PO3 Allan M. Verana; PO1 Candido S. Vallejo; PO1 […]
Spices and flavors have been popular for centuries because they provide excitement and liveliness to food, eating and dining. You can also add zest and pizzazz to your health and wellness by taking spices and flavors as medicine. Here are a few more spices and flavors that heal. Kamatis or tomato (Lycopersicon lycopersicum L. or […]
In celebration of National Heritage Month, former ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales, chairperson of Akademiang Pilipino, a group of notable personalities in the field of arts, culture and the academe, delivered the keynote address to formally open the Heritage Stamp exhibit entitled, “Mga Selyong Pamana, Imaging the Imagining Womanhood in Stamps,” held at the historic lobby […]