August 19, 2012

Life lessons

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IN the past few days, Big Sister and I, as well as a niece, have been doing guard duty at the hospital where Mama has been confined due to ...

Tiger Airways completes purchase of 40% of Seair

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SINGAPORE-based budget carrier Tiger Airways has completed the purchase of a 40-percent stake in a Philippine aviation firm, Southeast Asian...

Seair takes ‘more fun’ to the skies

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Seair flight DG7792 (registered as RP-C6320) taxis toward the Budget Terminal of the Changi International Airport in Singapore, after arriv...
August 13, 2012

Driven to succeed

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GINIA R. DOMINGO, president of Columbian Autocar Corp. (CAC), has always loved a good challenge. It is this trait that has marked her succe...
August 02, 2012

Get rid of carriers’ taxes, Aquino prodded

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THE 30-strong organization of foreign carriers with routes to the Philippines has urged President Aquino to put more teeth to his tourism ad...

KLM 
to 
reconsider 
Manila
 if
 aviation taxes
 are
 repealed

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MANILA,
 Philippines
–
Netherlands-­based 
airline KLM
 will
 reconsider 
flying 
to
 Manila 
if 
the 
Aquino administration 
makes 
good 
o...
August 01, 2012

One perfect day

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LAST Saturday I woke up to rain pouring in torrents, and bearing down on my neighbor’s newly extended roof like the thump-thump of a tin dr...
July 26, 2012

Going places

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FOR A Filipina who didn’t speak even one whit of Mandarin or any Chinese dialect, to move and work in China in the mid-1980s back when no o...
July 18, 2012

Number of Chinese tourists jumps 59% in Jan-May 2012

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MANILA, Philippines - Despite ongoing tensions between the Philippines and China over a group of islets in the West Philippine Sea (South Ch...

Raising happy, healthy, well-balanced kids

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(Conclusion of my two-part series on 'When parents are away' ) (Rowie Mattie, Fides Reyes and Maribel Dionisio at the recent book l...
July 17, 2012

DOT lists 78 tourism sites protected from mining

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THE Department of Tourism has listed 78 "existing and emerging tourism development areas" that the Aquino administration will be p...

Manila Hotel: A grand old dame turns 100

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(The night’s celebratory toast with the Yap family and executives of Manila Hotel. From left: lawyer Francis Gaw, Michael Yap, Emilio C. Ya...

When parents are away

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LIKE many in my age group, during our time, my father was the breadwinner of the family, and my mother (like my grandmother, her mom) was a...

My Kitchen by Chef Chris Guarantees Happy Tummies

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(Slow-roasted lamb ribs with garlic and rosemary rub are succulent and tender to the bite. The dish is served with braised lentils, olive f...
July 02, 2012

A grand plan

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(Grand Benedicto, right, and his spouse the former Genevieve Sy.) BE RESORTS Mactan is one of the most loved hotels in Cebu. Since it opene...