Results of the fourth annual MasterCard Worldwide Index of Women’s Advancement revealed the Philippines with the strongest index score among 13 Asia/Pacific markets.

Global publishing firm Penguin has published a book featuring of one of the country’s greatest and most original poets José Garcia Villa.

Telecommunication networks have lowered their SMS charges to P.50 from P1 over a period of three months.

By Lloyd Luna

With ideas from The Voice Master Pocholo Gonzales, we’ve talked about this Obvious Law which we coined The Law of the Gear.

By Francisco J. Colayco

What do you have to say about people who say OK lang, we are used to poverty.

By Claude Tayag

Eating is such a serious business, at least for those who live to eat (don’t look at me). There are certain dishes served in a joint like no other, and although available in other places — one has to have it just in that particular place.

Filipina Carishiela Kujipers was the surprise winner of the 2008 Estee Lauder Model Search in Malaysia.

Lawyer Eugenio Insigne, chairman of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples, was elected to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

By Carissa Villacorta

I rarely take a trip outside Manila when I go home to the Philippines. I go there not to go around – but to be in one place: with my family and friends.

Catherine Loria is the newest Filipino singer to be proclaimed Grand Champion in the 2008 World Championships of Performing Arts.