From Russia with love By Al S. Mendoza TWO hectares. P6 million is ready for relocation expenses. P2 million more will be released. All of the above for the 65 squatting families of Sitio Russia of barangay Bonuan Binloc, Dagupan City. I have no reason to either doubt or question…

Fil-Am Invt’l proof of golf’s pulling power By Al S. Mendoza BAGUIO CITY–Golf is laid back? Boring? It is laid back, yes, but not really boring. Still, for all its laid back looks, golf is actually tension-filled, pressure packed and full of thrills. For one, how can it be boring…

Happy birthday Kuya Vicente & Kuya Onie  By Al S. Mendoza IT is not always nice to see all your children grow up as intelligent and big-time professionals. Not also advisable to see them all leading a non-normal life when they’ve become adults. Better that one or two of them…

Meeting Melchor & Tess of Honda By Al S. Mendoza I COULD not thank Melchor and Tess Co enough for their warm hospitality during a trip I had made to Laoag on October 23-24. The lovely couple made my coverage of the launch of the new Honda Jazz not only…

Kissing cousins By Al S. Mendoza THE shotgun issue is a cousin of the jueteng issue. Not just a cousin. First cousin. Both are hot topics; have always been. People talk about both issues with the same intensity and passion as when we argue over Obama’s capabilities to handle the…

Heed Mayor Sam’s Formula By Al S. Mendoza THE war rages on. The shotgun issue seems to have blown out of proportion. The observation about ladies as kapitans not being able to handle the shotgun properly is valid. In truth and in fact, arming our lady-kapitans with shotguns could reap…

Have gun, will kill By Al S. Mendoza GUNS don’t kill. It is the owner of the gun that kills. Simple as that. Didn’t Claudio Teehankee Jr. use his gun to kill two persons while wounding another one tragic night in 1991? Didn’t Rolito Go use his gun to kill…

US$1,000-ticket to Formula One By Al S. Mendoza I JUST got back from my coverage of the Singapore Formula One (F1) on September 28. It was one experience worth recording in the deep recesses of my mind. First, the Singapore F1 was the first night race since F1 was born…

If Hoya allows it, Pacquiao will win By Al S. Mendoza AFTER Jose Sulaiman, who else but the legends themselves is deciding to join the fun. Sulaiman, the president of the World Boxing Council, has said the De La Hoya-Pacquiao fight is a battle between a “pachyderm and a hobbit…

Money speaks louder than love By Al S. Mendoza WHAT money can do. That’s the only thing I can say about Jinkee, Manny Pacquiao’s beautiful wife. At the start, Jinkee was one of the most vocal opponents of the Pacquiao-De La Hoya fight. “I will oppose the fight,” said Jinkee…