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Thursday, July 31, 2025

Speaking Out

How do you deal with a bully like China?

BULLYING cases have been in very much in the news lately. In the last two cases, at least, the incidents were dealt with promptly...

Muntinlupa @ 101

MUNTINLUPA, voted Most Business Friendly LGU two years in a row by PCCI, turned 101 years old last week. Mayor Jaime R. Fresnedi led residents...

Wiping the debt slate clean

Have you experienced the classic ‘holiday debt hangover’? THIS TYPE of hangover is usually experienced during the months following the Yuletide season — when the...

PDEx breaches one trillion mark!

WHEN the ceremonial bell rang at the Philippine Dealing and Exchange (PDEx) last Thursday, I thought I heard it ring longer than usual. For two...

Skipping ROTC

THE REVIVAL of a proposal, coming no less from President Duterte, to make ROTC once again mandatory has triggered renewed debates as to the...

Better late than never for the Bangko Sentral

TWENTY-FIVE years after the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas was established as “an independent central monetary authority”, the BSP is finally getting a much needed...

Balangiga bells finally coming home

THE BALANGIGA bells are finally coming home 117 years after they were taken as war booty by American troops. Over the years, the return of...

Beware the Chinese camel

When I was young, my mother used to read to me children stories. One story I found quite entertaining was titled “The Arab and...

Ghosts in the palace

FROM Day One of my assumption as Press Secretary in 2002, I have been warned about creepy happenings inside Malacañan. There is the legend of...

Flying home

ATENEO Law School graduates – mainly from 60, 50, 40 and 25 years ago – flew home the other week to get together, to...