Goodbye By Eva C. Visperas It has always been music to my ears every time I heard people say they always looked forward to reading this paper, including this section. That gave me so much encouragement to always do better, write better in succeeding columns. I felt good each…
Strength By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. In general, strength is an asset—a potential for doing well, a capacity for doing good. This is true for physical, intellectual or emotional strength. The same is true for economic and/or political strength. It is especially true of moral strength which is the…
Embryo transfer in goats successful at CLSU-SRC By Sosimo Ma. Pablico Researchers of the CLSU Small Ruminant Center (SRC) and the Philippine Carabao Center have successfully shown that embryo transfer could be done in goats. Despite a minimal budget of PhP350,000 for four years since September 2005, the SRC embryo…
When will we ever learn? By Jesus a. Garcia Jr. BASKETBALL lovers who followed the stints of our national squad during the FIBA-Asia Olympic Qualifying Championship in Tokushima, Japan held recently saw how our Asian neighbors Iran and Jordan humiliated and ousted us from the 2008 Beijing Olympics. It…
Rain dance By Marifi Jara As an enthusiastic gardener, I have been devotedly praying for a constant dowse of rain from the heavens. I’ve even had tempting thoughts of organizing a community rain dance in our barangay using indigenous Philippine musical instruments. I think it would be an equally enjoyable…
Our real, not reel, “Pinoy brothers” By Emmanuelle THE biggest Fil-Chinese federation builds schools for the barrios the Federation of Filipino-Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Inc. (FFCCCII), to date, is a network of 170 chambers of commerce and trade and business associations all over the country. It is the…
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The Bulldog and the Bull By Ermin Garcia Jr. I am personally elated on receiving the news that our columnist Gonz Duque was elected president of the prestigious Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities. Knowing him, he will not be one to stand idly and simply bask in the honor…
Maramba Blvd., still seedy By Gerry Garcia IT’S not from tradition that a newly elected mayor of a town or city draws the gall to change the face of the incumbent police chief he does not like. More often it is personal or political, to be more exact. And it…
Gonzalo’s odyssey By Jun Velasco ONE of the negative traits of Filipinos is their inability to accept defeat in a healthy and democratic contest. Take the case of the recent Speakership race. Congressman Pablo Garcia of Cebu unfailingly showed that he was a sore loser. His handlers like Bicol Congressman…
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