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Chinese military strategy in a nutshell

Active defense. Those two words are the essence of the Communist Party of China’s military strategic thought, according to the official Chinese defense white paper...

No slave: OFWs fight back

Long before President Rodrigo Duterte expressed outrage over the violent death of Filipina domestic worker Joanna Daniela Demafelis in Kuwait, this middle east nation...

Makiling Dusk

  Wind from the lake below Has brought the fine rain That wet the stair railings Between classrooms on Makiling. As I step out after class, The cold droplets cling...

Four funerals

told in order of importance.   i.    My grandmother tells me and my cousins not to look back on my grandfather’s funeral. Best not to take the...

“To poke the eye of the President”

I recall meeting former President Fidel V. Ramos for the first time. Decades ago I was assigned by a lifestyle magazine editor to conduct...

Sunny with a chance of tikoy

Tikoy is China’s fruitcake. A sentence as declarative as this usually demands proof, and usually, the proof is in the tikoy, but have you...

The tremendous power of secrets: Cecilla Manguerra Brainard’s ‘Magdalena’

The first call of a novel is to tell a story. Not just any story, mind you, but the story only the author of...

Fifty Shades Freed: Finally free of this!

Three years ago, my best friend Mary Estrella called me on my cell, shrieking that the “Fifty Shades” trilogy of E.L. James will finally...

The exterminators

Globally, at least three million people are poisoned by pesticides every year, of whom 20,000 people die.  That’s according to the Geneva-based World Health Organization...

The war against colorectal cancer

In this month of March, the world celebrates Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. This campaign was first launched in 1999 in the United States to...