Bridges: Disaster resilient communities
BYÂ SAMMYÂ JULIAN
THE 2014 Post-Haiyan Tacloban Declaration, the outcome of the three-day Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Manila Conference held from June 4 to 6, is another concrete...
Faith, Hope, Charity: Food security
BY IKEÂ SEĂERES
WE will never achieve food security not unless we become a net exporter of rice. That is my own personal view, and I...
Rural Update: How soon is âsoonâ?
BY JOHNNYÂ NOVERA
ON November 18, 2014 or 10 days after super typhoon âYolandaâ brought devastation to the island province of Leyte, we wrote an article with the title, The Banks in...
People Powwow: The rise and fall of gas prices
By HERBERT VEGO
YESTERDAY morning, a TV newscaster broke the good news that gasoline and diesel prices would decrease by a peso. The reduction was...
Worm’s Eye View: Man in the mirror
BY ROMMEL YNION
Iâm starting with the man in the mirror. Iâm asking him to change his ways. And no message could have been any...
Accents: Thank you for the memories
BY JULIA CARREON-LAGOC
BOOM! Boom! Boom! And more fireworks to make the spirit soar! The CENTENNIAL JUBILEE of the San Antonio-San Nicolas Elementary School (SASNES)...
Advocacy Mindanao: âUnorthodoxâ doctor
By JESS DUREZA
(Continued from yesterday)
ISRAELI TECHNOLOGY
He described his instruments and techniques as âIsraeli technologyâ not practiced by traditional western medicine.
For example, after some preliminaries,...
Bridges: Honoring the veterans
SAMMY JULIAN
A BILL introduced in the United States Congress calling for the awarding of a single Congressional Gold Medal collectively to the Filipino Veterans...
Advocacy Mindanao: âUnorthodoxâ doctor
JESS DUREZA
I WAS seated in a clinic receiving room in Quezon City a few days ago, waiting for our turn to meet the doctor,...
People Powwow: When is a disabled seaman âfitâ to be paid benefits?
By HERBERT VEGO
HAVING been on board an ocean-going vessel for a decade, a marine engineer got the shock of his life when he was...