To usher in 2017, the Philippine Postal Corporation released its “Year of the Rooster stamps” in time for 2017’s Chinese New Year. The souvenir sheets are red and gold with special embellishments of gold foil and 3D embossing. The rooster is the 10th of the 12 Chinese zodiac animals, followed by the Year of the […]
More Filipino food will be found in restaurants around the world and is predicted to trend in 2017, according to a master list released by Eater magazine. Filipino cuisine came up 28th in the “Official Megalisticle of All 2017 Food Trend Listicles,” which lists 81 of the predicted trendsetters in the food industry worldwide. Eater […]
Property giant SM Prime Hold- ings Inc. opened recently SM City Tianjin, its seventh mall in China. Other SM City malls in Chi- na are in Xiamen, Jinjiang, Chengdu, Suzhou, Chongqing and Zibo. SM Prime president Jeffrey Lim said the newest mall opening “gives SM Prime a wider perspective on China’s shopping culture, allowing us […]
National Artist for Literature Virgilio Almario has been elected the new chair of the National Com- mission for Culture and the Arts. His election on Jan. 5 will go to Malacañang for confirmation and formal appointment by President Duterte. NCCA chair is chosen and elected from the heads of the cultural agencies that sit on […]
Award-winning screenwriter and author Ricky Lee comes out with his latest book Kung Alam N’yo Lang: Mga Kuwentong Pambata Para sa Mga Hindi Na Bata, a collection of four stories told from the point of view of four children. Lee, who grew up reading comics, says children may read his new book in order to […]
Six people, three Chinese nationals and three Filipinos, arrested at a suspected shabu laboratory in San Juan City were charged with violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act. Chinese nationals Shi Gui Xiong, alias Xiong, Che Wen De, alias Jacky Tan, and Wu Li Yong, alias David Go; and their alleged Filipino cohorts Abdullah Mahmod […]
The Court of Appeals has up- held a Quezon City court’s deci- sion of life imprisonment of three Chinese drug traffickers. The CA dismissed the appeal filed by Zhang Silang Ming, Alex Tan Lim and Robert Ong Cruz. It added that it found no reason to disbelieve the testimony of the prosecution witnesses. On July […]
Police arrested 25 Chinese na- tionals and a Tsinoy in a raid at Bayview International Tower 3 in Parañaque City reportedly used as a drug and cybercrime den. Agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, National Bureau of Investigation, Bureau of Immigration and Southern Police District seized two kilos of shabu valued at P12 million. […]
A policeman has been charged and placed under restrictive custody at Camp Crame, as he is being investigated for the involvement in the kidnap-slay of a South Korean businessman in Central Luzon, Philippine National Police chief Director General Ronald dela Rosa said Jan. 9. Senior Police Officer 3 Ricky Sta. Isabel, a civilian and several […]
Long before the arrival of the Spaniards in the Kingdom of Manila or even before Rajah Soliman ruled in the 16th century, there already existed an ancient kingdom called Namayan. Established in the 11th century, the precolonial settlement in Santa Ana was the oldest along the Pasig River. Last October, the revised edition of the […]