FEATURE
To memorialize the Ama ng Wikang Pambansa, Manuel L. Quezon; the provincial government of Quezon held its first Agri-Tourism Trade Fair. The first Niyogyugan Festival was held at Tayabas Capitol featuring the different municipalities of Quezon in terms of booths, symbols, and products using coconut as its primary product, last August 2012.
As far as I know, when your hands are dirty, you're a hardworker. Many of us do not want people with dirty hands. From the knowledge of many, having a clean hand is a sign of a simple, clean life. In an essay by John Delaney entitled 'Living With Dirty Hands', he emphasized the importance of having dirty hands.
You will see metal plates on every corner of Lucena City. Each of these provides directions to travelers so they won't get lost. Attached to each solid pillar, these metal plates bear the name of every street in the city.
According to the Lucena City website, three of the streets
are named after famous personalities who have been
part of the city's history. The first was Father Mariano
Granja from which the name Granja Street was taken.
Father Granja is a Fabriscan priest who works as a
principal or part of the electoral body that oversees
the community leadership vote. He played a part in the
promotion of the new municipality which was later
called Lucena.
Cellphone numbers are already part of our life. This small device is the way for us to connect to others.
23-year old Bryle Leano is using his sim card number for 6 years. From elementary to high school. But he said that he is having a problem with the mobile data or the internet.
The cellphone is a hand-held mobile radiotelephone that is used in communication. Most of us especially millennials are into this device.
According to the survey, the cellphone is one of the things that are always in use in our daily lives. This device can be used in communication, to get information and many more.
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Garbages are not the only one who can be recycled by someone. Sim Card numbers can be also recycled and be used by someone else.
Kyle Escobar from Makati is complaining about his previous number being used by someone he doesn't know.
“Tinanong ako ng kaklase ko kung yun pa din po yung dati kong number sabi ko hindi na. tinry daw po nila akong i-kontak pero sabi nila parang iba na ang nagamit sabi ko hindi na ako yun.” said Escobar.
Along the busy roads of Lopez Avenue in Los Banos to the University of the Philippines roams a very known public jeepney.
What makes this jeepney unique are the hanging hand-fans inside to maintain the cool tenperature for the students. But not only because of that, this vehicle is also known for its owners work together with their love for 50 years.
When most of the scenarios inside a jail are usually prisoners putting up different fights against each other, it’s a whole different case inside the walls of the Quezon District Jail in the city of Lucena. Inmates here are trained to weave eco-friendly baskets to be sold outside through an organization called Likhang Malaya.
Under the muds in Tamulay, Polillo, Quezon hides an exotic creature that is unknown to many. Having its’ tail and head that look like they are from a scorpion and a crab’s pincer, the creature appears to be half scorpion- half lobster called Bulaso.
In a feature story of Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho, the team showed how Bulaso has brought the madness to the natives of Polillo and local tourists on this monster creature hiding under the mud.
The House of Committee on Education and Culture recently passed House Bill 1022 on the implementation of the Coast as a national writing system.
The Coast was a Filipino writing system during the Pre-Spanish Era. It is often referred to as "alibata" but in contrast to the Coast comes the "alibata" in Malaysia while the Philippines is off the coast.
Seventy percent of the world’s working children are in agriculture. From tending cattle to harvesting crops, handling dangerous machinery and spraying pesticides, over 132 million children aged 5 to 14 help produce the food we eat and the clothes we wear. Minette Rimando who works for the ILO’s Subregional Office in Manila reports from the Philippines.
Liptint. This is very popular to the Millenials right now because it can make your lips look reddish but natural.
This is like a lipstick but the formula of it is different, it can be into water form, gel form, etc.
Agriculture is a sector where many children are effectively denied education which blights their future chances of escaping from the cycle of poverty by finding better jobs or becoming self-employed.
“The rural sector is often characterized by lack of schools, schools of variable quality, problems of retaining teachers in remote rural areas, lack of accessible education for children, poor/variable rates of rural school attendance, and lower standards of educational performance and achievement. Children may also have to walk long distances to and from school. Even where children are in education, school holidays are often built around the sowing and harvesting seasons”, explains Michele Jankanish, Director of ILO-IPEC.
Brighter prospects of going back to school
Not all of them are as lucky as Rudy’s younger brother and sister. Today, Rudy is no longer afraid that his two siblings may quit school to work in the sugarcane fields.
“I am happy that I can give money to my parents to send my younger brother and sister to school,” he says. For the ILO, agriculture remains a priority sector for the elimination of child labor.
“For agricultural and rural development to be sustainable, it cannot continue to be based on the exploitation of children in child labor. Unless a concerted effort is put in place to reducing agricultural child labor, it will be impossible to achieve the ILO goal of elimination of all worst forms of child labour by 2016”, concludes Jankanish.
The Philippines is now considered the fastest-growing market for smartphones in Southeast Asia, with a staggering 326% increase in smartphone sales in 2012
The TNS "Mobile Life 2013" survey revealed an interesting profile of Filipino smartphone users.
Below are some of the highlights.
Filipinos are social
