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Thousands of Filipino artisans and handcrafters have lost their jobs because of the pandemic. One of the hardest hit is the fashion-accessory industry, where the sale of one bag can mean being able to buy a sack of rice to feed an artisan’s family. This was exactly the situation facing …

MANILA, Philippines — Fashion that’s out of the box. That’s what Colorbox promises in its latest collection, carrying four concepts at once: Fashion Jeans, Fashion City, Country Fashion and Best Buy Tees. With designs that are more trendy, edgy, and fashionable, the Fashion Jeans collection is not your usual Sunday …

City of Dreams Manila, through its charitable arm Melco Resorts Foundation, donated P150 million in food relief and PPE for frontliners. With the support of the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (P120 million through the Office of the President, and P30 million to Parañaque), the relief items were distributed to …

Did you know that COVID-19 can manifest as a headache? However, it is only present in 14 percent of COVID-19 patients. “And most often, patients show the other most common symptoms like fever and dry cough,” clarified Dr. Corina A. Macalintal, consultant neurologist at Asian Hospital and Medical Center, during …

Ronson Culibrina remembers the island where he grew up as being “monochromatic” albeit with daggers of colors. He would swim with the other kids in the lake during its better days and, since they had no computers or gadgets, they improvised. Pieces of bamboo would transform into cars and guns, …

A review of Virgin Labfest 2020 While watching the plays of Virgin Labfest (VLF) this year, it’s amusing to consider how actors performing in isolation are made to relate to the screen as a mirror, as a spectator, and perhaps more interestingly as another character. There are the men at …

Wouldn’t have pegged John Bolton as a Hamilton fan. The title of his tell-all, too-little-too-late memoir, The Room Where It Happened, comes from the Lin-Manuel Miranda musical, but it’s the only hip, topical reference you’ll find in his self-serving inside look at 17 months as Donald Trump’s former National Security …

Where I grew up, there was a big yard with lots of open space, but more often, we preferred to play out in the street. Our house was at the dead end of a nondescript gravel dirt road that led to an open field of wild cogon grass. My playmates …

'The current COVID-19 situation made me realize the value of everyday life. We can overcome the situation if we work togerther and not lose hope.' My mind is filled with images of Hyun Bin. Hyun Bin to the right of me, Hyun Bin to the left of me. That is …

If there is one thing I’ve learned after more than 90 days in quarantine, it’s that you have to be hopeful about tomorrow,” designer Ito Kish says. In April, the idea for “Ito Kish Retail Season 2” started germinating in his mind in the early morning hours (he would start …