A story on broken election promises By Leonardo Micua AN angry mob stormed the mayor’s office, seized the town official, tied his hands to a rope connected to a Toyota pick-up truck that dragged him along the street in full view of his constituents. Thankfully, this did not happen in the…
Storytelling By Jing Villamil DO you still read, or share from your own stocked knowledge, a bedtime story to your child to prepare him or her to sleep? Sadly, in a research made by technology developer TomTom last February, covering 1000 parents with children ages 3 to 10 as subjects,…
Competence of SITG doubted By Ermin Garcia Jr. SOMETHING is amiss in the investigation of the slay attempt on the life of former Cong. Spine Espino. Firstly, it’s taking so painfully long for the police to establish with the motive that could lead to the identity of those behind the…
We can’t afford to be complacent By Al S. Mendoza NEW YORK CITY—I got wind of Tim Cone being appointed coach of the Philippine basketball team to the SEA Games in Manila that begins November 30. As an offshoot to this, our basketball team is already being formed in earnest. Good….
The harmonica and the songs we sing By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo WE left the National Museum of Fine Art after listening to the keynote speeches of Eka Kurniawan and Resil Mojares. We had three hours till the next event, but my friends, Fe Mangahas and Lualhati Abreu, decided to proceed…
A Short Story on Self Confidence By Ashok G. Vasandani Here’s an article I read in a page on Facebook, from Short Stories in English account that I’d like to share, something that we can all learn from. Author Unknown THERE was a business executive who was deep in debt…
Backyard hog raisers badly hit By Leonardo Micua BURY that trader, not our pigs. This was the tearful plea translated in English of a backyard hog raiser in Mapandan town who protested the seizure and subsequent culling of her pigs by the personnel of the Department of Agriculture who went…
Commatose (A comma overdose) By Jing Villamil DENGUE, leptospirosis, polio, diphtheria, meningococcemia, measles, pneumonia, malaria, tuberculosis, rabies, HIV, the big C for-all-ages, dialysis for too many failed kidneys, too-sweet diabetics, bones young and old weakened, cracked or crushed, Road accidents along SLEX, NLEX, and other EXes and widened roads, doctors…
Greed almost killed the swine industry By Ermin Garcia Jr. OUR banner story on the mass killing of hogs from Bulacan is indicative of one thing: The illegal entry of the hogs were discovered not because the government was wanting but because we do have unscrupulous businessmen in our midst….
Another success story in America By Al S. Mendoza LATHROP, California—The house on Delta Lane, corner Mossy Point, isn’t just a house. “It is a mansion, Tatay,” said Dayong, the assistant coach of San Miguel Beer basketball team. A two-storey edifice, it has six bedrooms and four bathrooms. My wife…
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