Timely preparedness vs. A(H1N1) plague WITH about eight million Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs), plus several mil-lions more Filipino migrants who comeback to the Philippines for a balikbayan holiday, and those coming from a short business, educational or purely pleasure trip, the risk has been very high from the beginning for…
Yesterday, the KBL; today, Lakas-Kampi By Ermin Garcia Jr. The ugly head of contemptible traditional politics made itself more evident over the past few months, thanks to President Arroyo and her allies in Congress, in particular. While farmers stood wearily and anxiously by the gates of the Batasan to press…
Gina de Venecia, a shoo-in for the senate By Jun Velasco ‘Do not say ‘it is morning, and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name’s Rabindranath Tagore. OVER a cup of coffee in Ortigas, San Juan…
Rep. JdV’s Korea-RP university ill timed By Gonzalo Duque BY way of making up for our many absences (sorry, brothers and sisters in Rotary), we wish to felicitate the brilliant and lovely souls of the Rotary Club of Uptown Dagupan for making waves, yes, lately again. Nayari kayo, rather, nayari…
Malacanang and jueteng By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. One says the other. The other means one. One and the other are one. This is the well perceived inextricable symbiotic relationship that is more and more alive and vibrant between Malacanang and jueteng – since 2001. Protector and protégée, patron…
Cotto or Mayweather versus Pacquiao? By Al S. Mendoza WHO will be Manny Pacquiao’s next foe? Floyd Mayweather Jr.? Sugar Shane Mosley? Miguel Cotto? Juan Manuel Marquez? Edwin Valero? All of the above. That is, if everybody can wait. And I suggest they should fall in line. Pacquiao isn’t pound-for-pound…
Brief but worthwhile visits By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. FORT WORTH, TEXAS–We have moved here with my goddaughter, nee Marilou Cariño, formerly from my place in barangay Buenlag, Mangaldan and now married to an electronic engineer, Giles Honeycut, who picked us up in Houston and took us to their beautiful…
No, not the books, please! By Marifi Jara BACK in 2004-2005, several children from our community in Nibaliw Narvarte, San Fabian, some of them my distant relatives, used to come around the house on Saturday afternoons for reading sessions. It was a motley bunch, ranging from kids not yet going…
Our duty to others (Contributed by Nida Rofe) – “All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.” – Matt. 12 This is a wonderfully comprehensive rule of action. It bids us consider the interests of others as well as our own….
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