Talking shit

BY LUIS BUENAFLOR JR. WE HAVE been talking about shit since last week but just as a figure of speech, particularly the inadvertent genocide committed...

Knowledge-based economy (Part 1)

BY IKE SEÑERES Monday, December 11, 2017 “KNOWLEDGE-Based Economy” (KBE) was a buzzword in the development circles until it fell out of popular use some years...

Increasing the productivity of strawberry

BY JULIO P. YAP JR. Monday, December 11, 2017 SELECTED agricultural commodities were highlighted during a series of techno-forums which were conducted during the recent Highland...

Conditional cash transfer

BY OSCAR CRUZ Monday, December 11, 2017 A NOVEL way of making the poor downright mendicants or beggars, a creative way of an administration playing Santa...

Love in the time of Bacunaua

BY PETER SOLIS NERY Monday, December 11, 2017 XXIX. Last year So, she went, partied, got drunk, got lost. She met a man, who shared the moon...

Deteriorating human rights situation

Sunday, December 10, 2017 (We yield this space to this “Statement of Concern on the Deteriorating Human Rights Situation” signed by current and former legislators,...

Reading between the Dengvaxia lines

BY HERBERT VEGO Sunday, December 10, 2017 SUDDENLY, everybody is talking and reading about Dengvaxia without getting into the bottom line of the controversy; no thanks...

Are LGUs ready?

REGION 6 or Western Visayas is experiencing La Niña albeit weak, according to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration. Are local government...

How to celebrate the holidays like a millennial

BY RHICK LARS VLADIMER ALBAY IT’S THAT time of the year again: when people try their best to seem festive and happy on social media,...

BMI and waist circumference: How do we use them?

BY JESSICA SEGOVIA-YAP, MD MOST people, Filipinos especially, gain a pound or two or more over the holidays. Some of us, however, don’t know how...