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26 January

Obama in New Delhi to mend strained U.S.-India ties

New Delhi—President Barack Obama was greeted in India Sunday with an elaborate welcome at the country’s sprawling presidential palace, then he solemnly laid a wreath at a memorial honoring the father of India’s independence movement, Mahatma Gandhi.

26 January

Sorsogon: more than just its whale sharks

One place worth going to—one that’s not far from Donsol—is the Panumbagan Sand Bar, a five-kilometer-long, tamarind-shaped islet in Pilar town that’s known for its fine, pearl-white sand.

26 January

Manila ‘on the rise’—US travel magazine

Writer Isobel Diamond describes the city as a “medieval Spanish walled town at its heart; it is chaotic and seedy in parts—with strip joints and dwarf-wrestling clubs—but steeped in old-world glamour.”

26 January

Miss U organizers unveil new crown

The Miss Universe Organization (MUO) presented last Friday the new crown that the next Miss Universe and her nine immediate successors will wear, a partial result of what will be a decade-long partnership between the Donald Trump-owned organization and Czech Republic-based jewelry company Diamonds International Corp. (DIC) that they entered into in July 2014.

26 January

Mary Jean Lastimosa: Perseverance personified

By Alvin I. Dacanay Today, January 26, many Filipinos here and overseas will watch the 63rd Miss Universe Pageant to see if our delegate, 27-year-old entrepreneur Mary Jean “MJ” Lastimosa of North Cotabato province, succeeds in what her immediate predecessors failed to do: win the prestigious title that the Philippines last won in 1973.

26 January

Film veterans favored to win at Screen Actors Guild Awards

By Alvin I. Dacanay Is Batman going to triumph over a 40-year-old “virgin” and Sherlock Holmes? Do everybody’s “friend” Rachel and June Carter Cash have a chance against Sarah Palin? Would a Birdman soar or a Boy further grow in stature? Is everyone going to check in at The Grand Budapest Hotel? Film fans will learn the answers to these …

19 January

Pope concludes triumphal visit ‘Biggest-ever’ Papal Mass

“Keep the flame of faith alive in your hearts. Walk away as children of the light,” Francis intoned in his homily. He ended the Mass with the devotees holding lighted candles in the damp air. The Pontiff, a lighted candle flickering behind a glass case in his right arm, gave his final blessing in English in a symbolic gesture after …

19 January

“Why does God allow this to happen?”: Pope, moved by a child’s question, departs from homily at youth forum

It was a revealing moment of genuine inspiration. So moved by the tears of an abandoned child, who broke down and could not finish her prepared welcome speech, an emotional Pope Francis told an audience of youth on Sunday the world must “learn how to cry” over the plight of the millions of poor, hungry, homeless and abused children.

19 January

While Francis listens, P-Noy bashes the clergy

He just couldn’t help it—the endless blaming game. While Pope Francis listened intently on his earphones, minutes away from delivering his first speech during his five-day apostolic visit, President Aquino went hammer and thongs at unnamed members of the clergy—“once advocates of the poor, the marginalized and the helpless,” he said, but whom he accused of silence allegedly during the …

19 January

PHL handicapped as Asean bloc starts

Riza Lozada (First of two parts) Overshadowed by the papal visit was the “birth” of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) economic community, a bloc envisioned to be similar to the European Union, and which Philippines officials hope to put the country in equal footing with its neighbors in the association.

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January, 2015