Words by Jove Moya October 28, 2021, tatlerasia.com How is your quality of life before and during the pandemic? We can’t count on the fingers of one hand the number of times our local newspapers and online business forums shared utterly disheartening news such as the one disseminated by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) on…
By Aie Balagtas See / Manila March 15, 2021, Time Magazine online Edd Gumban sleeps on a foldout bed in an office in central Manila. The 57-year-old photojournalist has a wife and a home in Bulacan, part of the commuter belt 14 miles north of the Philippine capital, but he is too afraid to go…
During COVID-19 our cortisol levels are at an all-time high. By Murray Clark Lockdown ennui is written all over your face. The pale skin. The listless gaze into the void of another Zoom. The sudden breakouts. You can explain it all away by reasoning that this is winter, and this is what winter likes to…
Dec 13, 2020 Agence France-Presse Berlin, Germany (UPDATED) Germany records another 20,200 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, reaching a total of 1.3 million cases Germany will go into a partial lockdown from Wednesday, December 16, with non-essential shops and schools to close in a bid to halt an “exponential growth” in coronavirus…
Nov 2, 2020, Agence France-Presse BERLIN, Germany The virus has infected more than 46 million people worldwide, with close to 1.2 million deaths, and the acute outbreaks in Europe and America spark further alarm about the state of the already devastated global economy Germany on Monday, November 2, led a further tightening of coronavirus restrictions…
By: Fate Colobong – @inquirerdotnet Philippine Daily Inquirer / August 30, 2020 MANILA, Philippines — “Golden” queens are living in a shabby apartment in Pasay City, pining for the drag shows they starred in before the COVID-19 pandemic put everything on hold. Founded in the mid-1970s, the Home for the Golden Gays shelters “indigent” elderly…