By DARLENE CAY ALL’S well that ends well. What started out as a potential dispute between a photographers’ group and an organization working in behalf of people with Down Syndrome turned into the seeds of collaboration, with both groups promising to cooperate on projects promoting persons with disabilities (PWDs). Members of Monggi Productions, an abbreviation
By MIKHA FLORES THE Supreme Court launched on Friday an electronic filing system that will digitize judicial processes in trial courts in Quezon City. Dubbed as “eCourt”, the system uses case management software that will allow judges and court personnel to organize case flows from the filing of the complaint up to its resolution and
[tabs] [tab title=”Top Spenders for TV”] [/tab] [tab title=”Top Spenders for Radio”] [/tab] [tab title=”Networks”] [/tab] [/tabs] By MIKHA FLORES JOSEPH Victor Ejercito Estrada of the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) has logged the most number of television airtime while Team PNoy senatorial candidate Loren Legarda leads in radio placements for the first month of the
Text and photos by VINCENT GO THE United Nations had declared March 20, 2013 the first World Happiness Day. But for hundreds of activists in the Philippines, it was a day of protest as they held simultaneous mass actions in various parts of Metro Manila to voice their unhappiness with the performance of President Benigno Aquino’s III, now
By MIKHA FLORES THE Commission on Elections has listed 75 poster violations one month after the campaign period for candidates for senator and party-list groups started on Feb 12. Comelec’s Law Department sent out 38 notices to 22 senatorial candidates and 36 notices to 21 party-lists. The poll body also sent a separate notice to Bishop
By MIKHA FLORES THE oversized tarpaulin bearing the names of senatorial and party-list candidates who were for and against the controversial Reproductive Health Bill will remain hanging outside a Bacolod church after the Supreme Court stopped the Commission on Elections from taking down the campaign material. The high court issued Tuesday a temporary restraining order
By MIKHA FLORES A Commission on Elections official who once blocked the confirmation of Comelec Chair Sixto Brillantes Jr. is now vying for one of the two vacancies in the poll body. Planning Department Director Ferdinand Rafanan has submitted his application for Comelec Commissioner to President Benigno Aquino and told him he would spearhead anti-corruption
By JONATHAN DE SANTOS POLITICAL turncoatism, and possibly even the sharing of candidates among political parties, could be a thing of the past if Congress manages to pass by June 6 a bill strengthening political parties. But Congress has a very limited window of opportunity to do it, under the present term. “We have June
By KARLOS MANLUPIG DAVAO CITY—The frail looking Italian priest wears an indigenous bandana called tubaw and is known for speaking gently regardless of whom he is talking to: Peasants, indigenous people, or government forces in the plains and hills of North Cotabato.
Text, photos and video by VINCENT GO WHAT started out as a gathering of a few tattoo artists at a small garage in Malate district in Manila twelve years ago has grown to be the biggest tattoo exposition in the country.