It’s remarkable, what a long-unopened filing cabinet can yield. On this trip to Manila, we…
IN September 2011, for the Global Summit of Filipinos in the Diaspora convened by the…
WHEN I read the post in social media that Senator-boxer Manny Pacquiao had proposed crucifixion…
MY very first newspaper column came out in Business World, the leading business daily in…
We’ve probably all heard the tale of the fox who raided the chicken coop and…
The sinking of a Filipino fishing boat in the West Philippine Sea by a Chinese…
Remember the old saying? “When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” They watch out…
Now that the Philippine midterm elections are over and new senators and local government officials…
OUR Marian pilgrimage group had just checked in on Sunday night at the Grand Hotel…
I AM writing this in Lourdes, France, the town of St. Bernadette to whom the…
I have just filled out my ballot as an overseas Filipino qualified to vote in…
One of the most touching chapters in “El Filibusterismo,” Jose Rizal’s sequel to the “Noli Me Tangere,” was…
First, Malacañang spokesman Salvador Panelo described as “futile,” the recent complaint against Chinese President Xi…
POOR Nic Gabunada. He is being crucified for being good at what he does. Gabunada,…
The recently concluded “Abuse Summit” at the Vatican convened by Pope Francis frontally addressed the…
HOW does one win in a senatorial election where 63 candidates are fighting over 12…
The hot topic at my favorite watering hole in Daly City is the 2019 midterm…
In Washington D.C. and wherever in the U.S. federal employees proliferate, there is a lot…
Mike de Leon is a multi-awarded cinematographer, screenplay writer and director in Philippine cinema. Among…
“And so it came to pass that a choir of elves appeared in the night…
NORBERTO Gonzales, the national security adviser during the incumbency of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, has rung…
“IN union there is strength,” has become such a cliche that even otherwise sensible people…
THERE is a caravan of an estimated 4,000 men, women and children from Central America…
With all of the bad news coming out of Manila, like typhoons, runaway inflation and…
In grade school in Tacloban, Leyte, what we pupils dreaded most was to be told…
In death Sen. John McCain was honored by colleagues whom he disagreed with, even fought…
IF anyone were to tell a foreigner that the Philippines is a poor country and…
If the structure of the Philippine government is supposed to have been patterned after that…