Put them on ice
THE WORLD’S best Olympians are soon heading off to Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy for the snow, ice and also ICE (Immigration and Customs...
Reinventing the retirement resorts
IF WE ARE serious about competing in the global market for foreign retirees, we must first accept a simple truth: you cannot sell what...
When journalism is treated as terrorism
ON FEBRUARY 7, Frenchie Mae Cumpio, a community journalist from Leyte, marks her sixth year in detention — an incarceration that rights and media...
Only with God can we be truly sincere
WITH CHRIST lambasting the scribes and Pharisees of his time for their hypocrisy (cfr. Mt 23, 27-32), we are somehow reminded that the secret...
Zhang Youxia’s Purge
NOT TOO long ago, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) removed General Zhang Youxia from its Central Military Commission (CMC).
For anyone following Chinese politics,...
Firm pledges
ON JANUARY 29, I was among the media personalities invited to witness the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) for a land donation...
One more with feeling: how to brush your teeth
“TO RINSE or not to rinse?”
We chanced upon this article published in Popular Science. It is interesting reading, saying that “you might be...
Iceberg beneath the snowflake, 2
FROM THE worldwide climate strikes spearheaded by young activists to the broad demonstrations against systematic social injustices, Generation Z has demonstrated that they are...
Unrestricted mining is destroying communities and the environment, 2
THESE clear guidelines put people first before profits, but with the price of gold, copper and nickel rising continually on world markets, the wealthy...