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Pollution: The world’s leading killer

On the morning of October 27, 1948, Wednesday, a heavy smog settled down over the area surrounding Donora, Pennsylvania in the United States.  Weathermen described it as “a temperature inversion” and was so thick that it evoked comments from the residents. According to the public...

Your loyal subject

At the tail-end of the ASEAN Summit here in Manila some weeks ago, we witnessed, mostly on social media platforms, a minor bickering by a certain “major blogger.” In gist, what transpired was a derring-do of this self-assuming major political blogger to a British...

Afterlight

WHEN YOU FIND you’re awake and you’re up on your feet, the first thing you notice is that your watch is partly broken—the hands unmoving; the crown, for some reason, a bit stiff, the crystal face smashed in like the shell of an...

Fund-raiser for Marawi by PDP Laban Cares

The advanced movie screening at the Center Square Cinemas in Bonifacio Global City in Taguig City also served as a venue where the PDP Laban Cares gave recognition to some of the veterans of the five-month battle by personnel of the Philippine National...

Ride the Sweet Rails of Eastwood Richmonde Hotel’s Gingerbread Train!

Eastwood Richmonde Hotel opens the tracks once more for a delightful ride with lip-smacking goodies this season! Hop in The Lounge’s Christmas Gingerbread Train and indulge in Richmonde’s rich, creamy, chocolaty goodies and savory holiday treats up for grabs starting November 24. Satisfy your...

Of Iyot and other demons

We have seen the changing of the official mouthpiece guard at the Palace. From the soft-spoken, interpretation-heavy baritone of a former pastor now ex-Secretary Ernesto Abella, to the would-be hollow block-throwing lawyer and marginalized group representative, Atty. Harry Roque. But among the voices continuously...

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The dialectic of violence: When blood stains our condiments

Red in the face. Not because of anger, but her own blood. The 56-year-old woman in the photo-graph was one of roughly 300 NutriAsia supporters...

Covering the essential Blas F. Ople

A journalist remembers how the former labor and foreign affairs secretary and Senate President remained a lifelong newspaperman at heart The opportunity to cover Blas...

Dance Macabre

The conversation anent charter change has taken a turn for the serious and you can tell by the way the newspapers are reporting it....

The lion, the Atom, and the movie

When a movie gets buzz less for its merits than for matters aliunde, what we lawyers call extrinsic, then something is wrong. Citizen Jake...