Culture and Media

Students encouraged to avoid firecrackers and choose safe, eco-friendly noisemakers 15 December 2025, Quezon City – The EcoWaste Coalition, together with health professionals, government agencies, and environmental advocates, led this year’s “Iwas Paputoxic” campaign at Pinyahan Elementary School in Quezon…

“Freeloader.”  A colleague called me that after discovering that my cousins in Los Angeles fed me for a year, free of charge.  But there is more.  This new immigrant also got to tag along with them to Las Vegas for…

An Alternative Peace Prize in Line with the Will of Alfred Nobel The annual  Nobel Peace Prize ceremony takes place on December 10 in Oslo, Norway. In a symbol of Western hypocrisy, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize was controversially awarded…

Rosalía has just ascended to the altar of light with her lates album “LUX”, a release that once again places her at the centre of cultural debate. Her new album offers a gaze toward feminine mysticism, casting light on the…

It may be amazing, but true that the largest democracy on Earth continues waiting for a fully functioning government-sponsored media watchdog for more than a year now. Press Council of India (PCI), a quasi-judicial body, which was initiated to safeguard…

In New Delhi, President Vladimir Putin, alongside Editor-in-Chief of Russia Today, Margarita Simonyan, took part in the launch ceremony of the RT India TV channel. The TV channel will operate from a new studio complex in New Delhi, marking a…

South Asia, a region that once illuminated the world with its philosophy of balance, humility, and coexistence, today stands clouded by hostility and suspicion. The birthplace of some of humanity’s deepest moral and spiritual teachings has become a battleground of…

Geneva, 7 December 2025: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, urges the military regime of Myanmar to release all media professionals before the proposed multi-phase elections starting on 28 December. The forum also insisted on…

During the first week of December in Belgium, the festival « REstART – The Art of Justice, Dialogue and Repair », organised by the network European Forum for Restorative Justice, stands out as a powerful, participatory international event where art…

by George Banez The five-course lunch typical of Chinese restaurant fare in Manila foreshadowed the meals I scraped by the next ten days. My sister treated me to a send-off lunch before dropping me off at the airport that day. I…