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WHY do we put our children in school? For them to prepare for their future? Long before the world became...

Amid the Christmas revelry, tragedy. Rain, floods, landslides killing hundreds in the Visayas and Mindanao – but why must these...

DOES the rush to the Christmas crush have to be so stressful? Not about to morph into Grinch, the creature...

IN this season of giving, I am all for giving former President Benigno S. Aquino III the benefit of the...

Some people you know do not believe in Christmas either because it’s not what their religion teaches or it’s something...

ON Nov. 28, the South China Morning Post reported: “Xi’s ‘toilet revolution’ goes nationwide.” And how 68,000 public toilets were...

A wave of hearings will not assuage the fears of mothers and the kids who were vaccinated for protection against...

A-LISTERS are high society’s most dazzling people. One person who does not belong to that exalted class deserves her own...

BELLISSIMO, Belenismo!, awarding a total of R1,330,000 in cash prizes to the winners of the province-wide belen-making contest as announced...

SHE’S the sexiest teacher I’ve ever met, not that she wants to be called sexy – she prefers “Teacher Nelia,”...

THE thing about vaccines is that they are meant to protect the body from certain viruses or bacteria, yet the...

You can have your APEC summits and the pick and peak of ASEAN meetings, we ordinary beauty-conscious mortals will be...

As Christmas rapidly approaches and Christmas wishes fill the air, the loudest we don’t hear are those that sound like...

THE sound of Christmas is the music of carols. Imagine Christmas without O Holy Night and Jingle Bells. Then imagine...

Inexorably, the hours and days accelerate toward Dec. 24-25, yet feng shui masters already have one foot in the door...

CHRISTINE Herrera, 49. Invoking editor’s prerogative, I called her Christine Guerrera. A warrior masquerading as a reporter. Fighter. Subversive. She...