“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” – Oscar Wilde As I pick up my latest issue of Positive News, I thought of the phrase, “you are what you read.” We were trying to win Pandemic Legacy’s November with friends last …
Images of full rubber boats crossing the Mediterranean, crowds rushing barb-wired fences and crammed trains easily dominated European news in 2015. In that year, short of a million migrants made their way into the continent. Soon after, debates of closing borders ensued. Surely, we cannot take them all in just like that? Europe, the land …
Since constructive journalism is an emerging domain, not much is written about it. During my preliminary research, I found two books published about the subject, both by journalists from Denmark where it started growing roots: Constructive News (2014) by Ulrik Haagerup and From Mirrors to Movers by Cathrine Gyldensted. Haagerup is the Executive Director of …
Filipinos in the Netherlands stood their ground as they shouted “China, out of Philippine Waters!” in front of the Peace Palace in the Hague, the Netherlands.
More than two years after the Philippines brought the case against the People’s Republic of China to the PCA on the matters of the South China Sea, hearings on the jurisdiction of the case are finally ongoing.
It there’s a European city where it feels like Christmas all year round, it has to be Salzburg. It has all the elements that anyone can truly enjoy, on Christmas day or any other day of the year: memories of a singing family, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and a whole range of food which are difficult to spell but fairly easy to devour.
This story was published on GMA News. Filipino-German Isabella Lepping made it to the fifth season of The Voice of Holland. She made it through the Blind Auditions with her own rendition of “Addicted to You”. Marco Borsato will be her coach. Half-half Lepping’s mother is of Filipino origin while her father is German. She …
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Amsterdam has something for everyone. Maybe because for a city that entertains around 12 million visitors each year, variety is something that Amsterdam can’t live without. But with so much choices comes stress. So where should you go or what should you do as a first time tourist in Amsterdam?
Katrina Manaog, the Filipino community’s current bet in The Voice Kids Netherlands, grew up in a musical family. She sings and plays the piano while sister Mikaela plays the violin. Father Jessie also taught her how to play the guitar but she admits she started out her singing career in front of the karaoke.
“The first song she sang in front of people was Aiza Seguerra’s ‘Pagdating ng Panahon.’ According to my uncle, she got her talent from her late grandmother, Barbara Bello, who was an opera singer in the Philippines while her father said she got her talent from her auntie Jerlie Manaog who also sings in the Philippines,” said her mother Catherine Malabanan during an interview with GMA News.
