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CEBU CITY, Philippines – Some places speak louder than others. In Cebu, it’s the old stones, wooden beams, and quiet chapels that tell the story. As the nation observes National Heritage Month this May, there’s no better…
TOKOZA, South Africa — At 17, Joyce Malindi won her first beauty contest under the suffocating limits of apartheid South Africa. Fifty-five years later, she was back on the catwalk, silver curls gleaming and brown clogs clicking, in…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Among the names that rose to the top of the April 2025 Registered Electrical Engineer Licensure Examination stunned not only the public but, most surprisingly, his own family. Omar Lusares, 23, didn’t tell…
If you were a candidate in the 2025 midterm elections, what would you do to make things better if you’d win? We asked this question to ordinary citizens in Cebu, hoping that their answers would reach those…
ROME – With a disarming smile and a great informality that is especially liked by young people, Filipino cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, one of the most well-known faces of the Asian Church, is a top papabile (pope tip)…
MANILA, Philippines — Consumers may soon pay more for their daily cup of joe as supply woes brew in the global market—but this could be a blessing in disguise for Filipino coffee farmers who now have greater…
CEBU CITY, Philippines – Stand-up paddleboarding has long lingered in surfing’s shadow, yet its test of endurance, balance, and grit proves it worthy of equal recognition. For professional stand-up paddler, Ronald “Tado” Amit, the sport is not…
MANILA, Philippines — Asia’s front-runner for the papacy, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of the Philippines is a charismatic moderate often dubbed the “Asian Francis.” Tagle, 67, who shares with Pope Francis a history of advocating for the…
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican, headquarters of the Catholic Church, is the smallest state in the world, with its own newspaper, national anthem in Latin and supreme leader — the pope. Some 900 people live within its…
CEBU CITY, Philippines – For centuries, books held the keys to knowledge, but while men turned pages filled with philosophy, politics, and science, women were told to read only what kept them in their place—anything else was…
TOKYO — As sex tourism in Japan grows alongside record-breaking foreign arrivals, young women standing idly around a park in Tokyo’s west suggest that a giant statue of Godzilla is not the only draw in the bustling…
CEBU CITY, Philippines – Climbing to the top is never easy for a Filipino who grew up with nothing but their name. But for dreamers like Jeshari “Jesh” Forrosuelo Layese, even a thousand steps filled with doubt,…
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