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Grave ‘branding’: Unique way of honoring the dead

LEGAZPI CITY -- Most of us Filipinos, particularly Catholics, remember our departed loved ones on All Saints' or All Souls' Day by cleaning their graves, painting it white, placing fresh flowers on...

The role of social media, digitized art in addressing HIV

MANILA -- While social media is considered a dangerous place for the young people today, it is considered the most effective means to inform them about serious health problems like Human Immuno...

1K runners join Calamba pre-Halloween creepy race

CALAMBA CITY, Laguna - More than a thousand marathoners were running “scared” in the first-ever pre-Halloween horror fun run and party for a cause “Takbo! Takbo! May Multo! on Saturday night at...

Free caskets for Antique indigents

SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique – The burden felt by indigent families should a family member dies gets somehow alleviated by the free casket made available for free by the local government...

Zamboanga City’s ‘addiction’ to betel nuts

ZAMBOANGA CITY -- Feeling blue or tired? Chew a “mama,” get high, and feel good. The “mama” here is not one’s tough mother, but the betel nut and leaf concoction or quid that...

Doktor Karayom: The rise of an artist in ‘hiding’

MANILA — It was rush hour one recent Thursday night and for that time on a weekday, traffic was unbelievably light. I was on my way to the Cultural Center of the...

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