Find your ‘normal’ in these abnormal times

Joel Ruiz Butuyan - @inquirerdotnet 09/28/2020

When the government announced last March the first of a series of nationwide lockdowns, I feared that the country would not be able to endure more than three months of severe restrictions before our nation’s economy would…

7.6 million families hungry in past 3 months, highest hunger rate since 2014 — SWS

Krissy Aguilar - Reporter / @KAguilarINQ 09/27/2020

MANILA, Philippines — Some 7.6 million Filipino households experienced involuntary hunger in the past three months, the highest hunger incidence since 2014, results of a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey showed Sunday. Of 1,249 adult Filipinos surveyed…

Active NPA rebel surrenders due to “false promises, hunger, exhaustion”

Florence Baesa 04/16/2020

DUMAGUETE CITY, Negros Oriental- An active member of the New People’s Army (NPA) who is also the commander of a Local Guerilla Unit Front in Central Negros surrendered to the Philippine Army (PA), earlier today, Thursday, April…

Five high-risk Negros jail escapees recaptured in Tayasan town

Florence Baesa 02/09/2020

DUMAGUETE CITY, Philippines — Hunger and fear led to the surrender of two of the five high-risk inmates nearly six days after they bolted Manjuyod City Jail on February 3, 2020. Their surrender at past 7 a.m.…

Globe joins Rise Against Hunger in making history

PR 11/02/2018

Employees of Globe Telecom joined hundreds of volunteers from USA, Italy, India and South Africa, in helping international non-government organization Rise Against Hunger (RAH) achieve its goal of entering the Guinness World Record with the greatest number…

A way out of poverty

10/17/2018

Not a few tears were shed, nor were there fewer groans of despair heard when it was announced that there were two winners of the P1.180 billion ultra lotto grand prize, the biggest last Sunday evening. The…

Quake survivors deal with hunger, thirst

10/01/2018

PALU — In the wake of mass destruction caused by a 7.4-magnitude earthquake and the subsequent tsunami, survivors in Palu and Donggala in Central Sulawesi have been scrambling to salvage food supplies and other items, as aid…

Senior Wharton fellow in Cebu to raise funds to fight hunger

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 09/24/2018

DR. Brian To, a senior Wharton fellow, will be in Cebu on September 28 for the third part of Strategic Leadership and Management Program (SLAMP 3), which envisions to coach participants on the behavioral approach to strategy…

The inner hunger

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 08/18/2018

At breakfast this morning, “Litany,” a poem by Billy Collins, flashed into my mind. Collins begins with these lines by the Belgian poet Jacques Crickillon: You are the bread and the knife, The crystal goblet and the…

National father hunger

JASON BAGUIA 06/19/2018

Many of the Presidents most ardent supporters have appended to his nickname the word “Tatay,” Filipino for father, such that he is to them “Tatay Digong.” In the movie “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” one of…

Year of bloodshed, year of peace

Editorial 12/29/2017

To the judiciary belongs the task of determining the guilt or absence thereof of Winifredo Miro, accused of being the brains behind the slay of the late Ermita chief Felicisimo Rupinta. Miro, a former Ermita barangay councilman…

Globe, Rise Against Hunger unite to help displaced Marawi families

PR 12/05/2017

Globe Telecom recently lent support to international non-government organization Rise Against Hunger (RAH) as part of its ongoing efforts to help the displaced families in Marawi and to strengthen its employees volunteering program. Over 300 Globe employee…

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