13K tons of garbage collected in Cebu City’s ‘biggest’ coastal clean-up

Delta Dyrecka C. Letigio 06/19/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The fourth Cebu City-wide coastal and riverside clean-up collected a total of 13,000 tons of garbage in the four-hour activity conducted by various groups on June 19, 2021. Reymar Hijarra, the subcommittee chairperson…

Architect mom earns from love for paper

CNU Intern 06/24/2018

Charo Lyn Roncesvalles, 40 loved to produce journals, scrapbooks and photobooks when she was a child. Little did she know that her obsession for paper would lead her to open her own business which she named “Papersandtschai”…

Paper tigers and origami cranes

Radel Paredes 08/19/2017

Faced with the threat of a full-scale military invasion during the postwar years, Chairman Mao Zedong referred to the American imperialism as a “paper tiger,” a bogus superpower that the Chinese communists could easily defeat in their…

Face recognition flushes out China’s toilet paper crooks

03/23/2017

A years-long crime spree by Chinese toilet paper thieves may have reached the end of its roll after park officials in southern Beijing installed facial recognition technology to flush out bathroom bandits. Park managers at the Temple…

MAO BA?

Editorial 03/09/2017

  EDIBLE PAPER WHILE eating at a fast-food restaurant, a female diner overheard two friends talking about the piece of paper placed under a “siopao” or Chinese meat bun. One of them asked the other why she…

The smell of home

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 02/10/2017

I tried to maintain a confident stance when I entered the Cebu Daily News building in the middle of an oppressive summer heat of 2006. I was one of the six Mass Communication students from the University…

Global Carrier mounts Disney-inspired Christmas tree–making contest

PR 01/03/2017

Employees and management of Global Carrier Philippines Inc. took the challenge by participating in the Christmas tree–making contest. It has been 16 years since the company traditionally made Christmas trees based on the themes like metallic, Chinese,…

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