Mention the Philippines and most people think of weird food (fertilized duck egg, anyone?) and beautiful beaches. But stick around long enough, and you’ll find that (sometimes literally) beneath the country’s modern malls runs a deeper mythological tradition so rich, it has migrated from the forest to the cities, morphing from myths to urban legends, […]
October 5 being Teacher’s Day, I would like to pay tribute to the very first teacher I ever knew – my mom, Flora. (I only saw this picture of hers for the first time – after she had passed away last Oct. 1 – when my younger sister was going through some old pictures of […]
J. Carlitos G. Cruz, chairman and managing partner of SGV Words cannot express the depth of our loss. For many of us, Mr. SyCip was not only the firm’s founder, but he was also a teacher, mentor and friend. For many of us who started our careers in SGV, he was the consummate role model […]
Washington SyCip’s lifetime achievements span several generations on all continents. Global and national leaders, public figures and business tycoons sought his ideas, opinions and analyses on significant political, social and economic issues. Many outstanding leaders in the Philippines and Asia were honed by SyCip Gorres Velayo & Co. or the Asian Institute of Management, both […]
His death is a big loss to the world, but most especially to Philippine society for which he gave so much of himself selflessly and unstintingly. Washington Sycip (薛華誠), a lifetime trustee of the Kaisa Heritage Foundation, was a benefactor, a mentor, a critic for the Kaisa Heritage Center which houses the Bahay Tsinoy – […]
In the previous article, I discussed the first nine food that can help you lose weight. These are vegetables and salads, grapefruit, apples, pears, bananas, eggs, beans, vinegar and tofu. Here are the remaining nine healthy food on our list: 10. Green tea. Green tea contains an antioxidant called catechins, which may help you lose […]
The BBC documentary “Secrets of China’s Forbidden City” released last July, examines the technical expertise that made possible one of the greatest wonders of the medieval world. The Forbidden City, with its warrens of buildings and pathways, home to the biggest wooden structure on Earth and a place of staggering wealth and power, was built […]
Sandalwood, with its fine grain and lasting fragrance, is very much a part of Chinese culture. It has been made into furniture, its oil extracted for various uses. Its popularity has led to over-harvesting, decimating the number of sandalwood trees. In response, the private China Red Sandalwood Museum in east Beijing opened in 1999 to […]
To encourage reading, a popular bookstore lets customers take out books for a small deposit, instead of buying them outright. The Sanxiaokou Xinhua Bookstore (合肥三孝口新華書店) in Hefei, eastern China’s Anhui province, has styled itself a “shared bookstore.” Open 24 hours every day, it lets customers bring home up to two books worth under RMB150 (P1,140) […]
There is a revival of interest in Nüshu (女書), a syllabic writing system developed from Chinese characters and once used only among women in Jiangyong county, Hunan province in central China. As recently as this past August, the crew of a popular reality television show went to Jiangyong to find out more about Nüshu. The […]