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2017 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee: Tony Tay (Singapore) with his 'Willing Hearts'
'Willing Hearts,' a fully volunteer-based, secular and non-profit organization in Singapore, runs a soup kitchen that prepares and cooks six thousand meals a day for distribution at forty points around...
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2017 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee: Gethsie Shanmugan, a lifetime psychosocial...
Gethsie Shanmugan as she was being presented during the awarding ceremonies.Gethsie Shanmugam has spent most of her life in psychosocial work starting with children and adults displaced by the civil...
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9/11 Centenarians: Conching (Living) and Ferdie (Dead)
Two families celebrated the centennial of a loved one this year. One subject of celebration was around his grave site. The other subject is still alive and well to have a say on the manner of...
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Was there a new boa discovered in the Philippines in the 1880s?
Is the “new species” of a boa serpent found in the Philippines and featured in the 22 February 1882 issue of the weekly paper La Ilustración española y americana of Madrid still existing?Was it really...
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The 32nd International Coastal Cleanup day in San Narciso, Zambales
The 32nd ICC on the coast of host town San Narciso, Zambales.The Philippines joined the annual global observance of 32ndInternational Coastal Cleanup (ICC) Day on Saturday, 16 September 2017 with the...
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The golden gala mantle of Our Lady of La Naval de Manila
Rafael Casal and Arnold Reyes designed and executed, respectively, the new mantle of Our Lady for the La Naval of 2016.In the inventory of Santo Domingo Church properties in 1750, according to our...
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Formal education in my old hometown, San Narciso in Zambales
The names of 18 schoolboys and their fathers from the barangay of Don Clemente Jose in the 1846 petition.(Source: Ereccion de Pueblos. SDS-14126. National Archives of the Philippines)We can say that...
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Filipino Veterans receive the Congressional Gold Medal
Source: U.S. MintAfter 75 years, the United States finally recognized the Filipino veterans who fought with the American forces during the Second World War.The Congressional Gold Medal was finally...
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"Sangre Roja" - association of San Narciso public school teachers in the 1900's
There was no Gabaldon school building yet in San Narciso in 1910. The first one would be built in 1913 although the Gabaldon law (Act 1801), which appropriated Pesos 1-Million for constructing schools...
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Juan Luna's 'Death of Cleopatra' (1881) goes to Singapore
As first seen at the Exposition of Fine Arts in Madrid in 1881.Source:La Ilustracion espanola y americana (30 June 1881)News photo of La Muerte after 136 years.Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer (16...
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Unknown and lost forever: Juan Luna's prison wall paintings (1896-1897)
Paintings of Juan Luna in his prison cell at the military barracks in Manila as photographed by M. Arias y Rodriguez, which appeared in the 06 August 1900 issue of La Ilustracion Artistica.Political...
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Andres Bonifacio featured briefly in a Madrid weekly journal (1897)
This illustration based on a photograph appeared in the08 February 1897 issue of La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana. The Filipino revolution against the Spanish colonial masters broke out in August...
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'Naimbag a Pascua' (A Good Christmas) in boyhood country
The municipal hall of San Narciso, Zambales a-glitter with Christmas lights this year (2017). More than a half a century ago, Pascua (Christmas) to us kids in the old hometown seemed to take too...
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The feast day of the Immaculate Conception is now a special non-working holiday
Republic Act 10966 "declaring December 8 of every year a special nonworking holiday in the entire country to commemorate the feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, the principal patroness of the...
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'Dungaw' - Mary looks at the Nazarene from the San Sebastian balcony
The Nuestra Senora del Carmen in her niche at the altar (left), before she was brought up to the balcony (top right), and as she looked out to see the Nazareno, the 'dungaw' (below right).In a story I...
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Keeping track of the FIFA World Cup 2018
Messi in grief. 'The end of the Messi gneration.'We could only view the highlights of games in the FIFA World Cup 2018 being held in various football arenas in Russia.In the Round of 16, we saw the...
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UP Diliman 107th Commencement Exercises: Paglayang Minamahal
The 29 summa cum laude graduates. (Photo from UPDIO)The rains came the night before.That morning the sunflowers along the University Avenue shone, and 4,612 graduates beamed with sunshine on their...
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Hooyah! The Wild Boars soccer team successfully rescued.
Hooyah! indeed to the Thai Navy SEAL which anchored the rescue of twelve young boys and their coach--the Wild Boars soccer team-- from around 2.5 miles deep in the bowels of the Tham Luang...
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Vive la France! Football champion of the World Cup 2018
It was raining when Les Bleus received the World Cup at Luzhniki Stadium n Moscow.(Picture: Getty Images@https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/awards/)It was a good thing that in this part of the world...
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World Watch: Mandela@100
Mandela on the front page of the 20 July 2018 issue ofEl Espectador of Bogota, Colombia (from en.kiosko.net).Former US president Barack Obama was in the news. I thought the stories on front pages...
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DU30's SONA 2018
Some 15,000 protesters on Commonwealth Avenue. (Photo by the author).23 July 2018 was sunny all day. Typhoon Josie has left Metro Manila although a light rain came after President Rodrigo Roa Duterte...
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The breastfeeding Mama Mary
Nuestra Senora de la Leche at the Manila Cathedral.Photo by the author. This August is the National Breastfeeding Awareness Month 2018 in the Philippines. August 1 to 7 was the Worldwide Breastfeeding...
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World Watch: Pope Francis I in Ireland in the heat of sex scandals in the Church
From en.kiosko.netPope Francis was in Ireland, met with its Prime Minister and eight survivors of child abuse by Irish priests, and attended the 9th Meeting of Families in Dublin. This came in the wake...
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Two Gabaldon school buildings of San Narciso, Zambales restored
The Gabaldon school buildings of San Juan-Candelaria and San Rafael-Natividad elementary schools were completely restored during the first quarter of this year (2019).For many years, the San...
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The measles -- tigdas (Tag.), kuribnas (Iloc.) -- crisis
Source: Dept. of Health"Measles is a highly contagious respiratory disease caused by a virus," says the Dept. of Health (DOH). "It is transferred from person-to-person by sneezing, coughing, and close...
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