The rising cost of space and labor in China and Vietnam is reopening doors for the Philippines’ manufacturing sector as companies are looking at the possibility of moving to Cebu, where the economic landscape is friendlier to foreign direct investments (FDIs).
On Friday afternoons, teachers of Umapad Elementary School in Mandaue City notice that some of their pupils are “missing.”
When technical divers and business partners Matt Reed and David Joyce received a call for help to retrieve the remains of a Piper Seneca plane that crashed in Masbate on Aug. 18 last year, their immediate response was to pack their gears and head off to the island-province at the southern tip of Luzon.
She just closed her eyes the entire time, but not even her frail figure could stop the oldest Sinulog dancer and “heritage keeper” from attending the annual prayer-dance held on Jan. 21, a day after the Feast of the Holy Child Jesus in Cebu, at Casa Gorordo Museum on Lopez Jaena Street in Cebu City.
She was known as the “Keeper of the Sinulog Beat” who hit the drums, sang Latin songs and led children and young adults in dancing to the traditional Sinulog steps come the third week of January.
In the advent of cell phones and computers, teachers should be more creative in encouraging children to read. Confronting this challenge squarely is Keena Martinez, 27, a teacher of Child Learning Foundation (CLF) in Mandaue City who also doubles as a librarian.
Lands will be fertilized and coconut trees replanted in the next six years to revitalize the coconut industry in Southern Leyte. The aim is to raise coconut production to a volume valued at P1.4 billion by 2018, to benefit some 64,000 families.
Wilmark Recomes was only 16 when he first portrayed the role of Pedro Calungsod, the Visayan teenage martyr who was elevated to sainthood in a Vatican ceremony on Oct. 20.
On a small island off Lapu-Lapu City, a group of women is making world-class quilts. Some of their quilts are exhibited at the Peace Museum in Kyoto, Japan, and at the International Quilt Center and Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska.
When the clock strikes 5 p.m. on weekdays, Raymond, Christian and John Lloyd drop their schoolbags at home in Cebu City’s Barangay Inayawan and head for the nearby dump to join their pals—John Paul, Martin and Eman—in looking for tin cans, plastic and other items that can be sold to scrap buyers.
Identical twins Marilou and Marilyn Sy have another thing in common—a passion for teaching.
THE COUNTRY’S rich marine biodiversity still awes Filipino-French Leucodia Angioyna Trotin. Learning from her father, Jacques, how to dive at an early age, Trotin got her first junior open water diver’s license when she was 9 years old.
Juliet knows how it feels to have money and then lose it. She was surrounded by relatives and family members when she worked as a salesperson of an energy-saving company in Quezon City and later as a domestic helper in Kuwait.
