BOLINAO, PANGASINAN — Long before Messenger and Viber became everyday tools of communication, there were handwritten letters, notes scribbled on scraps of paper and messages passed from one person to another. By today’s standards, those methods may seem slow and primitive. But in the early 1990s, they proved powerful enough to bring people together and

MANILA, Philippines — For Gregg Yan, a 43-year-old communications consultant and founder of environmental nonprofit Best Alternatives, one does not need to have formal training as a scientist to be able to write academic articles about animal conservation. His experience traveling the world and being exposed to the wonders of wildlife is what informs his

MANILA, Philippines — Falsifying proof of cohabitation may be a ground for the nullification of an unlicensed marriage, according to the Supreme Court. Ruling on a case concerning a couple in Antique, the high tribunal said the couple’s marriage was void from the beginning because their affidavit of cohabitation was falsely executed. “As the records

Oct. 8, 2000 Koronadal was officially converted from a municipality into a component city of South Cotabato through a plebiscite that ratified Republic Act No. 8803, signed by then President Joseph Estrada on Aug. 16, 2000. The area was formerly called “Marbel,” by the natives, which comes from the B’laan word meaning “murky waters.” Its