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China in the mix: Third telco’s the charm? FIRST OF TWO PARTS

The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) has named the “New Major Player (NMP)” in the local telecommunications market: The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) Selection Committee declared Mislatel-led consortium as the provisional NMP on Nov. 7. The consortium is made up of Mindanao Islamic...

Four Sundays and a funeral

What is the proper term for someone who is taking the bar exam? I was going to suggest barista but I re-thought the thought after realizing that law graduates might take offense at being associated with slinging lattés, which are scrumptious, at a Starbucks. Not...

Boo

Damn Filipino parents and their lack of imagination. And patriotism. Hex me all you want, but I will maintain till I inhale my last that Halloween is the most un-Filipino of holidays and that the Philippines has no business celebrating the day.  It...

Lolo

The essay was written four days before the author succumbed to a massive stroke. This story, about his grandfather, is his last essay Before sunrise, he would do the rounds of his small sugarcane farm on the east side of his house. He would...

Three boobs and a candidate

Ethel Booba, that funny girl, should not sell herself short the way I did. To clarify, I did not sell myself short—I sold her short. For no good reason, I might add, except that I mistook her for someone not to be taken seriously....

Former Graphic EIC shortlisted for international award

Veteran journalist Inday Espina-Varona was shortlisted for the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) 2018 Press Freedom Awards. Espina-Varona, former editor-in-chief of the Philippines Graphic magazine, was nominated for the international award’s independence category. She is among the nominees from 12 countries that have been shortlisted...

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The ides of a university

Intelligence-gathering, when conducted by the Armed Forces of the Philippines, becomes less of an undercover op and more of wish-fulfillment in that it could...

The era of ill feelings

Cursed the office of Chief Justice is. This assertion is a piece of recently hard-won wisdom, which should explain why I am inverting syntax...

The plight of ABS-CBN: Of dual citizenship and foreign ownership of mass media

By Justice Noel Gimenez Tijam (Ret.) Robust debates recently sparked following the renewal initiatives of the congressional franchise of a mass media giant that is...

Lessons from a ‘fantaserye’ controversy

Three weeks ago, ABS-CBN released promotional campaigns for its newest “fantaserye” Bagani, a speculative, coming-of-age story of a male protagonist, utilizing the indigenous...