Pre-pandemic life
THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE war and surging prices are not slowing down Philippine economic growth despite some doomsayers in our midst.
The economy expanded 7.6 percent in...
Aksyon indi tikal sa COP27!
ONGOING sa karon ang pagsinugilanon (Nov. 6-18) sang mga “parties” sa 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) sang UN Framework Convention on Climate Change...
Regularity
YOU CAN count on my photos of sunrises and sunsets everyday for 2022.
You can count on my food journal, and I mean with a...
A conspiracy of silence?
LAST week Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri dared journalists to go to China to experience some “chilling effect.”
“Chilling effect” is felt when journalists cannot...
Education management
IT IS A LONG time since we had a serious debate about our education system and how it can be improved. This was in...
Disinformation, my ass!
AS I HAVE said previously, lest the self-appointed guardians of morality start squirming in their knickers, “my ass” here refers to an animal belonging...
A unique Philippine Christmas tradition
TRADITIONAL milestones mark the observance of the longest Christmas holiday season in the Philippines. The first usually occurs on the first day of September...
What he wore
I’M STILL saying it: The Palanca Awards Night is the Oscars of Philippine Literature.
If it’s not a red carpet event, it should be.
Why should...
Why I will never believe in the end of history
FRANCIS Fukuyama, author of “The End of History and the Last Man”, has been making some noise online by revisiting his original thesis, which...
Mobile kitchen and more
DUE TO Severe Tropical Storm “Paeng”, coffee talkers missed some mornings huddling and discussing the hottest issues of the day.
But now they’re back!
***
“The national...