Let’s build real Filipino cars

IF WE look back into our automotive history, we will remember that we already built two Filipino cars, namely the Sakbayan and the Tamaraw,...

Demise, desperation, etc.

THE INEVITABLE happened – the demise of this over 50-year communist insurgency. All that’s left are the noisy useful idiots in the University of...

Advancing equitable progress in PH

IN A RECENT speech delivered before the Management Association of the Philippines (MAP), Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, Chairman and CEO of Ayala Corporation,...

Beware of the critical spirit

THAT GOSPEL story of the paralytic brought by his friends with great effort to Christ for healing, (cfr. Lk 5,17-26) can tell us a...

Finally, a solution to the 911 problem

FOR SO MANY years now, I have been trying to advocate the adoption of a nationwide emergency call center, similar to the 911 system...

Pakistan and Iran add another log into the Middle East fire

BY JED JALECO DEL ROSARIO AS OF  THE writing of this article, Pakistan and Iran are having a tissy fit over a minority group that...

Conversion and penance

CONVERSION and penance are actually what we have to do all the time. It’s quite clear that we need it, given our weakened, wounded...

Wisdom teeth

(By Dr. Joseph D. Lim and Dr. Kenneth Lester Lim, BS-MMG, DDM, MSc-OI) THEY don’t necessarily mean more intelligence, and yet they are called wisdom...

Jeepney adaptation, anyone?

WHAT walks like a duck and talks like a duck is probably a duck? But is a vehicle that does not look like a jeepney...

The Philippines’ new Lung Transplant Program

ACCORDING to Department of Health (DOH) data, pulmonary-related illnesses were the first, fifth, seventh, and ninth top causes of morbidity in the Philippines in...