Losing the fight against corruption
BEFORE PBBM could lament corruption in his State of the Nation Address, there had already been reports of P142.7 billion in “bicam insertions” added...
Peace amid worldly tribulations
THE READINGS of the Mass on Tuesday of the 5th Week of Easter (cfr. Acts 14, 19-28; Jn 14, 27-31) happily show us that...
Ancient teeth reveal new human species (Part 1)
(By Dr. Joseph D. Lim and Dr. Kenneth Lester Lim)
TEETH millions of years old reveal a new human species, turning the story of evolution...
Talking South China Sea, etc.
WE START with this bit of foreplay…
Lately, social and mainstream media were in a frenzy over the repartee between a certain Mikaela Suansing, representative...
‘The Man Who Came Home’ – A student’s tribute to Ninoy Aquino
COMING home from a series of meetings in Makati last Wednesday, I was pleasantly surprised to watch a video of a 13-year-old student delivering...
Dealing with the heat wave with local solutions
HEAT WAVES affect each locality differently, and from what I have heard on the news, some areas experience more extreme conditions than others.
Given...
Blending humility with magnanimity and magnificence
WE HAVE to be clear about the intimate relation between the virtues of humility, magnanimity and magnificence. Often these virtues are understood as somehow...
God needs to prune us
THE GOSPEL reading for the Mass on the 5th Sunday of Easter, Year B, talks about Christ telling his disciples that he is the...
The complicated relationship of the bear and the dragon
THE ANCHORAGE Accords recently ended with some moderate optimism. Although US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin did not reach a ceasefire...
Business process outsourcing and customer relations mgt
IT IS IRONIC that the Philippines is recognized as the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) capital of the world, yet many of our own National...