Want to buy high-quality art pieces at discounted prices? Join Unicef’s art auction on Oct. 1-7. You may choose from 70 artworks by outstanding artists, from paintings to sculptures, to jewelry and fashion accessories, to furniture and home accessories, and other special items. Prices are discounted starting at 40 percent. What’s more, you may view [...]
There is good news. Under-age-5 child death rates or “U5MR” were halved between 1990 and 2011. Two decades back 59 kids, out of every thousand births, never made it to age 5.
In Talaingod, Davao del Norte, the end of the school day finds the children playing tag or a crude form of soccer on the grassy field in front of the local public school. The breeze blows in from the highway, while trees shield the children from the harshest effects of the waning sun. It is then that a thought strikes me: The children may belong to some of the poorest families in the province, if not the country, but in some ways, they are far luckier than children who go to public schools in Metro Manila.
More than 40 days after the onslaught of floods brought on by Tropical Storm “Sendong,” there are good news and bad news.
When I first heard about the “air cleaning” paint applied on the walls of the Guadalupe MRT Station in 2009, I greeted the news with raised eyebrows and not a small amount of skepticism. Just another marketing gimmick, I thought, grudgingly acknowledging the marketer’s adroit use of a new twist to selling paint. But it [...]
