Happy Chinese New Year!
“KUNG hei fat choy!”
“Kiong hee huat tsai!”
You will hear both Chinese New Year greetings today – the first in Cantonese (mainly spoken in Guandong,...
Discrimination against natural medicine
SOMETIME in October 2018, Cong. Gary Alejano requested the Congressional Committee on Health to investigate the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which had raided...
A frustrated grandpa at 69
THIS WRITER has turned 69 years young – or a younger 9 as senior citizen. No regrets because number 69 throbs with interesting interpretations,...
Jolo bombings prove BOL wrong
WAS THE double-bomb attack that killed 20 people and wounded 111 during a mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in...
Expecting more from MORE Power
IT HAS BEEN one week and one day since the January 19, 2019 expiration date of franchise of Panay Electric Company (PECO) as sole...
Dinagyang’s religious-historical distortion
NO doubt, the annual Dinagyang Festival is Iloilo City’s top tourist attraction. Tourists from around the world come to view its colorful cultural presentations...
Unbelievable surveys benefit ‘subscribers’
DO POLLSTERS Social Weather Stations (SWS) and Pulse Asia believe that people believe their never-ending surveys raising President Rodrigo Duterte’s ratings to high heavens?
Did...
Lamenting population and pollution problems
BY CHANCE I stumbled on YouTube the state visit of the late President Ferdinand Marcos to the United States on Sept. 16, 1982. In...
The way to age younger
TWO FEMALE celebrities impress me for looking younger than their age: Cory Quirino, granddaughter of the late President Elpidio Quirino, health-and-fitness TV host, often...
Goodbye, old Freedom Grandstand
TODAY, whenever I pass by an old familiar place on J.M. Basa Street, Iloilo City, directly across the Mapa Street corner, I miss the...