ANAHEIM: The Red Hot Chili Peppers are the latest high-profile act to sell their music publishing rights, in a deal reportedly worth $140- to $150-million struck with the British investment firm Hipgnosis. Industry tracker Billboard cited anonymous sources in first reporting the sale of the catalog that includes hits like “Under The Bridge” and “Californication.” […]
SOME 150 frontline personnel of quarantine hotels were among the hundreds of workers who were vaccinated against Covid-19 on Saturday (May 1) in the symbolic vaccination of laborers that is part of the government’s celebration of Labor Day. The Department of Tourism (DoT) said the vaccination of these tourism frontliners is part of the preparation […]
THE distribution of cash aid in the National Capital Region (NCR) and four adjacent provinces is 77 percent complete, Interior Secretary Eduardo Año said on Wednesday. Around P17.6 billion had been distributed by local governments to beneficiaries, he said in a televised meeting with President Rodrigo Duterte. President Duterte approved the release of P22.9-billion financial […]
JOSE Ma Sison, the founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) has always referred to the government as a “reactionary government.” In many aspects, it is true because for the past 50 years that’s what the government has been doing. It reacts to every action the CPP does to its armed attacks, systematic […]
Health-care providers and patients have suffered through thousands of attacks on health care systems in the roughly five years since the U.N. Security Council demanded an end to impunity for such attacks, according to data recorded by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in countries affected by conflict and other emergencies. The attacks […]
TUNIS: A unit of the Tunisian Maritime Guard has rescued 38 illegal immigrants of different African nationalities off the coastal city of Sfax in southeastern Tunisia, according to a statement released by the Defense Ministry on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila). “The rescue operation took place this afternoon, when a unit of the naval guard managed […]
“Everything is done by hand…I’m blessed to have a team that works with us. I was able to train them and eventually, they have also become experts in what they do.” Pottery may be a difficult activity for most people. But for ceramic engineer EJ Espiritu, it is his profession, his means of income and […]
Dear PAO, I want to ask your office about my sister’s husband who had a relationship with another woman while already married to my sister. To make it worse, it was rumored that my brother-in-law has a child with his mistress. My sister now wants to ask whether his mistress can obligate my brother-in-law to […]
“I already had 10 grandchildren when Tatay, Sasaki, came to the Philippines to marry me in 1995,” Anita Aquino Sasaki said, as she started narrating her migration story. That story began ten years prior, when she went to Yokosuka Naval Base, in Kanagawa, Japan, where her brother’s brothers-in-law were stationed, to sell clothes and jewelry […]
The Department of Science and Technology (DoST) Western Visayas’ S-PaSS (Safe, Swift and Smart Passage) now has a total of 611,042 registrants who were provided with a common and unified platform for communicating travel policies and requirements as of April 23. S-PaSS is an online travel management system developed by DoST-VI that facilitates the application […]