Новости за 08.08.2015

As the Quezon City government celebrates its 75th anniversary, “MLQ: Ang Buhay Ni Manuel Luis Quezon, Isang Dula” will be restaged through the efforts of city mayor Herbert Bautista. “This is actually the second time. The local government also commissioned it for the 70th anniversary of Quezon in 2009. We all know what happened in […]

To seasoned bookworms, the sight of books—old, new, recycled, hardly opened, covered in plastic, wrapped in Manila paper—piled up one on top of the other is always hard to resist. (Do bookworms still exist, one wonders, as the word is hardly ever used these days. It certainly doesn’t appear in social media). When presented in […]

Like a cake covered with layers of sugary-coated tastiness, Hanoi’s cultural charms and character are enriched with a diverse set of colonial influences, mainly from the French, which brought a certain European flavor to the city’s architecture, food, and culture. Before the turmoil of a violent war would besiege the whole of Vietnam in the middle of the 20th century, Hanoi represented the “grand statement of French urbanity and […]

Senate floor debates on the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) begins next week with the scheduled filing tomorrow, August 10, of a substitute measure that is designed to ensure a smooth transition from the current Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) government to the proposed Bangsamoro government. Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., Senate Committee on […]

Over the years, the luxury house has boldly launched not a few groundbreaking timepieces in the sedate world of beautiful watchmaking. Bulgari was first to engrave its name on the case of a watch, one of the very first to watches to use aluminum, the first luxury watch brand that dared use a rubber strap, […]

VISUAL ARTS Iya Consorio will present her collection of surreal images on round canvasses at Ayala Museum’s ArtistSpace and Metro Gallery. On view until Aug. 12, “Psychic Chasms” gives viewers a glimpse of the artist’s bizarre doll dream world, where the paintings look like glass windows overlooking a strange parallel world. 02 759 8288, hello@ayalamuseum.org […]

Theater enthusiasts have a lot of reason to rejoice as six internationally-acclaimed shows will be staged in Manila starting this month. Concertus Manila and Lunchbox Theatrical Productions,who brought to Manila such big musicals as “CATS,” “The Phantom of the Opera” and “Wicked,” are bringing in more shows people of all ages can enjoy including “Singin’ […]

Nagasaki – Everyday at about 11:02 a.m. the Senbazuru (‘a thousand origami cranes’) music is played like an anthem at the Nagasaki Peace Park which sits atop a hill a few meters from where the alleged plutonium core A-bomb exploded. The ritual reminds visitors of the precise time that this port city was bombed by […]

No matter how different they seem to be from each other, in reality, the apple doesn’t fall far from the true when it comes to Annabelle Rama and her daughter, Ruffa Gutierrez. Annabelle is known for being vocal with her opinions, while Ruffa seems to be more composed. The Gutierrez matriarch loves her Visayan roots, […]

Angel Thoughts If a man has two shirts in his closet, one belongs to him, the other belongs to the man who has no shirt. —St. Ambrose It’s Mar Roxas for the presidency for the Liberal Party! He was “anointed” by President Benigno S. Aquino III in the historic Club Filipino on the birthday of […]

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Typhoon Soudelor lashed Taiwan on Saturday, downing trees, traffic lights and power lines, and leaving at least four dead, one missing and dozens injured. The typhoon brought strong winds and heavy rainfall as it made landfall early Saturday and was expected to move into the Taiwan Strait and onto mainland China later […]

SEOUL, South Korea — The 92-year-old widow of South Korean President Kim Dae-jung has returned to Seoul after a four-day visit to North Korea that apparently ended without a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Lee Hee-ho told reporters Saturday that she wasn’t carrying any official duty on behalf of South Korea during […]

Five foreigners have been evacuated and a “number” of hostages freed after they were trapped by gunmen in a hotel standoff with soldiers in central Mali that left at least seven people dead, military sources said early Saturday. “We can not say that everything is finished, but a number of hostages” were freed by Malian […]

The conservator of the late Bobbi Kristina Brown, the daughter of singer Whitney Houston who died in July after months in a coma, has added a wrongful death accusation to a lawsuit against Brown’s boyfriend, an Atlanta television station said Friday. Brown, the daughter of Houston and R&B singer Bobby Brown, died after suffering irreversible […]

LONDON – “Drag Me Down,” One Direction’s first single as a quartet following the departure of Zayn Malik in March, surged to the top of the British chart on Friday while a compilation album by Cilla Black, who died this week, made its first appearance in the Top 20 albums for over three decades. One […]

NEW YORK (AFP) – Dr. Dre has become one of music’s richest entrepreneurs but on the work he has declared as his grand finale, the rap legend vows never to forget his street roots. Capping one of the biggest waits in rap history, Dr. Dre late Thursday put out his first album in 16 years, […]

A 12-hour power cut is affecting the province of Surigao del Sur and Tandag City today, August 8. According to Surigao del Sur Electric Cooperative ll (SURSECO ll), the 6 a.m to 6 p.m. blackout in Surigao del Sur paves way for the repair and rehabilitation of the structures of SURSECO and National Grid Corporation […]

China’s foreign trade performance worsened in July with both exports and imports falling on an annual basis, customs said on Saturday, spelling more worry for the world’s second largest economy. Exports plunged 8.3 percent year-on-year to $195.10 billion while imports dropped 8.1 percent to $152.07 billion, it said in a statement on its website. The […]

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Typhoon “Soudelor” (PH local name “Hanna”) is lashing Taiwan, downing trees, traffic lights and power lines, and leaving at least four dead, one missing and dozens injured. The typhoon brought strong winds and heavy rainfall as it made landfall early Saturday and is expected to move into the Taiwan Strait and onto […]

A lawsuit filed Friday by an estate administrator for Bobbi Kristina Brown accuses her boyfriend of giving her a “toxic cocktail” and putting her face down in a bathtub before she went into a six-month coma and died. The 22-year-old, the only child of pop legend Whitney Houston and singer Bobby Brown, died on July […]