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Mark John H. Simondo, the topnotcher in the 2017 bar examinations is a graduate of the University of St. La Salle in Bacolod City. He garnered an overall rating of 91.05 percent. (Courtesy of the Facebook Page of University of St. La Salle)

Nursing graduate then, topnotch lawyer now

By Mark L. Garcia BACOLOD CITY -- A nursing graduate then, a topnotch lawyer now. For Mark John Simondo, being a nursing graduate in 2009,…

26 Apr 2018 - 5:36 pm
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In this Wednesday, April 11, 2018, photo, childhood Holocaust survivors Simon Gronowski and Alice Gerstel Weit embrace at the Los Angeles Holocaust Museum. When the Nazis arrived, Gronowski’s father was in a hospital. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon / MANILA BULLETIN)

Childhood Holocaust survivors reunited after 76 years

By the Associated Press When Alice Gerstel bid an emotional farewell to her family's closest friends in October 1941, she was hopeful she'd see "Little…

13 Apr 2018 - 2:38 pm
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Of hymns and melodies: Mother Mary choir’s Lenten service

By Martin Sadongdong It was way past 10 pm but a sweet melody could still be heard from a neighborhood in Barangay Tugatog, Malabon City…

30 Mar 2018 - 1:58 pm
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Girls apply strapping to their fists ahead of a Muay Thai session at a shelter for child trafficking victims in Manila, the Philippines, March 23, 2018. (THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION / Kieran Guilbert / MANILA BULLETIN)

Child slavery survivors fight to heal scars of abuse

By Reuters After years of being abused, exploited and enslaved, the girls in gloves do not hesitate to strike when their turn arrives. Cheered on…

28 Mar 2018 - 12:08 pm
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The Millennials’ President

By Argyll Cyrus B. Geducos President Duterte may appear as someone who is as tough as steel, but behind the toughness of this firebrand leader…

27 Mar 2018 - 10:00 pm
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Build, Build, Build an ambitious infra plan

By Chino S. Leyco The Duterte administration’s ambitious infrastructure program kicked off last year, and once fully completed, it should modernize the country’s dilapidated roads,…