Wishes and hopes for 2023
FOR THIS New Year’s issue, I lend my space to readers to enable them to express their wishes and hopes for 2023. The comments...
Truth, be painful
LET’S START the year with some truths.
So I can keep the tradition of truth telling.
So I can continue to be the best writer “because...
Being thankful for 2022 – a foreign affairs perspective
I’D LIKE to celebrate Christmas and to end the year by writing how thankful I am to be living in the Philippines. 2022 may...
Your mouth and high blood pressure
(By Dr. Joseph D. Lim and Dr. Kenneth Lester Lim, BS-MMG, DDM, MSc-OI)
THERE is a link between oral health and hypertension.
Hypertension is related to difficulty in chewing, a condition...
Safeguarding Hope
ACCORDING to a recent Pulse Asia survey of 1,200 respondents, some 43 percent said they expected this year’s Christmas to be more prosperous than...
2023: New beginnings
WHILE 2022 was a blast: what with running for public office in May 2022 – a childhood dream hatched in Bohol but realized in...
Why ASEAN should befriend India
I WAS recently part of an online discussion involving China-ASEAN regional tensions.
The discussion was inspired by the People’s Republic of China’s coastguard forcibly seizing...
Parting thoughts
WHAT do you say to 2022 as you say goodbye?
I mean, what do you say when you are Peter Solis Nery, and you think...
Precious saliva
(By Dr. Joseph D. Lim and Dr. Kenneth Lester Lim, BS-MMG, DDM, MSc-OI)
SCIENCE may be able to fix damaged salivary glands. That’s not to be glossed...
Philippines survived an eventful year
WHAT a year it was. We opened 2022 with alarm as Covid-19 cases in the country surged again with the Omicron variant becoming the...