This globe-trotting Filipino plastic surgeon has performed more than 200 cleft-lip and -palate operations on children throughout the world, literally putting a smile on their faces.
Whether or not you’re into politics, you’ll enjoy reading “Subversive Lives.”
I don’t go gaga over Lady Gaga. I never have. But while there are plenty who do, including many Filipino fans, there are also those who seem to be gago over Gaga. The guardians of public morality and decency in the noble and ever-loyal city of Manila are to be commended for their constant vigilance lest the all-too-earthly (though hardly sublime) pleasures of a Gaga performance distract them and their faithful from the transcendent aim of being accepted to eternity’s pearly gates.
Every two years, from around the world, the European Society of Biomechanics (ESB) gives its most prestigious award, the S.M. Perren Research Award, to the first author of the best scientific paper submitted to the Chairman of the Award Committee.
I was barely 11 years old when I wrote an article about “Fairness” printed by the Daily Advocate Newspaper in their “Ohio News in Education—Fun Day Monday” page. At that time, a few adults told me “face it, life is not fair”— after being taught my entire 11 years of life to be fair to [...]
Aleli Arroyo is not the legal wife of the late Negros Oriental Representative Ignacio “Iggy” Arroyo whose body is scheduled to arrive on Friday evening from London, following an agreement between three parties claiming custody of the body, according to lawyer Leonard de Vera.
The public spat between estranged spouses Francisco Ortigas III and Susana Madrigal Bayot took a dramatic turn Wednesday with his arrest on concubinage charges that she had filed against him and his purported mistress.
Guinness World Records experts said Thursday they are to travel to a remote valley in southwestern Nepal to measure a 72-year-old claiming to be the world’s shortest man.
We all aspired to be “something” when we were little. My brother wanted to be a star athlete, my son wants to be a professional basketball player, and I wanted to be an artist. My friend wanted to be a lawyer and another friend is still dreaming of starting her own business and getting out [...]
Hundreds of thousands of people in Mindanao are in dire need of help one month after devastating floods, but a global appeal for aid has fallen well short of its target, the UN said on Tuesday.
I like it. It’s catchy. It’s a flexible slogan. And most important of all, we can have fun with it. And many Filipinos are already having fun. The slogan has something for everyone.
Two world figures died recently, who were as different as night and day. Vaclav Havel, playwright, Czech dissident, and key figure in the bloodless transition from Communist state to a democratic nation, and Kim Jong-Il, dictator of North Korea, shuffled off their mortal coils recently, but in conditions vastly different from each other.
