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Hong Kong magazine picks SM Group’s program for best initiatives in social responsibility

The technical vocational education initiative of SM Foundation earned the Best Initiatives in Social Responsibility award from The Asset, a Hong Kong magazine. After accepting...

Official statement of SSS on contribution rate increase

The Social Security System (SSS) refutes news reports that it already increased its member contribution rate effective January this year. SSS said its current rate remains at...

Climb every mountain: The Year of the Earth Dog

In a few weeks, 2018 enters the Year of the Earth Dog, on the lunar new year come February 16. The Dog is the...

In the race toward the Graphic centennial

“he need for independent, courageous, trustworthy journalism is as great as it’s ever been.”—G. Sulzberger, Publisher, The New York Times   Reading Sulzberger’s New Year’s...

As it is hereby resolved

An easy-peasy pie crust recipe will call for mixing, oh, two-and-a-half cups of flour and a teaspoon of salt, to which you add butter—unsalted,...

Memories of the moving finger

I don’t know but I am almost running. My feet seem to drag me, unaware of the puddles scattered here and there like rivulets...

A New Year resolution

Is it imperative to run through along when the countdown starts at ten, until I take the plunge, bring myself forward, ask which intent yields the least...

Ode to the last Samurai

  There are books of essays that read like badly-written sitcoms—those unwelcoming, forgettable narratives that love listening to their own voices bellowing from the pages. On...

Predictions and predilections

It is the time of the year when predictions of all shapes and sizes, progressive or apocalyptic and utterly trash, will be revealed by...

Mindanao & climate change: Year-end floods, new year beginning, still more floods

The Philippines experiences 20 tropical typhoons each year. And in recent years, stronger typhoons have become more frequent. As stated in the executive report of...