FILIPINOS have long been used to Western-style music, but traditional beats and rhythms continue to thrive in communities across the country. In the summer capital of Baguio City, for instance, the age-old melodies of the Cordillera peoples remain alive...

GLORIA Macapagal-Arroyo likes to talk big money. By the billions. Got a problem? She has a money solution. And she's wont to dazzle everyone with oodles of cash. Last Friday at a meeting with the Liga ng mga Barangay, Mrs Arroyo unfurled a burst of...

IF the tripartite agreement entered into by the Philippines with China and Vietnam to conduct a joint marine seismic undertaking (JMSU) in the disputed territories of the Spratly Islands is currently mired in controversy, the Arroyo government has only...

TENSION between the Philippines and China over their long-time territorial dispute over the Spratly Islands is apparently being reignited by a legislative initiative that seeks to define the country's territory pursuant to international law. Last...

THEIR earlier demands summarily ignored by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, former senior government officials now numbering to over 80 issued their third statement yesterday, concluding that the President is “complicit with and in fact, at the center...

"BAYAN KO" is in vogue again, being sung by demonstrators on both sides of the political fence. Out of the current political turmoil, the positive thing singer-songwriter Noel Cabangon expects is a healthier harvest of patriotic song. He says composers...

UNLIKE recent Senate witness Leo San Miguel, Paolo Santos is no technical expert — at least not to his adoring public. After all, Santos gained popularity as one of the proponents of the so-called “acoustic sound” in the country. But as it turns...