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The country’s richest man
by Iris Gonzales - November 23, 2023 - 12:00am
There are a few things Manuel “Manny” B. Villar will say with certainty, at least when it comes to politics.
Revenge flu
by Iris Gonzales - November 21, 2023 - 12:00am
Inside a hospital’s emergency room recently, kids and teenagers were desperately weak, weary and sick; one was experiencing uncontrollable shivering, pale as a ghost; another was wailing out his discomfort....
Shower together, etc.
by Iris Gonzales - November 19, 2023 - 12:00am
There are many things in magical Norway that will catch your attention – the crisp weather, those little tiny snowflakes falling from the sky, the fjords or narrow inlets between high cliffs and if you’re...
Agriculture
by Iris Gonzales - November 16, 2023 - 12:00am
After more than a year and after several other names cropped up in the business grapevine, at last we finally have an agriculture secretary.
Rody Duterte prefers the ‘lower house’
by Iris Gonzales - November 14, 2023 - 12:00am
With the Duterte family supposedly under attack by foes in politics, will Rody, the patriarch and ex-president, return to the halls of power as a senator or congressman?
Dateline: Port Area
by Iris Gonzales - November 12, 2023 - 12:00am
You never know what you’ll see or hear in the labyrinthine Bronx-like district of Port Area in Manila.
Farewell and salute, Conrado de Quiros
by Iris Gonzales - November 9, 2023 - 12:00am
It was a small work area – enough to fit the writer and his desk and chair but it was in this room in their family’s quaint and humble abode in Quezon City where Conrado de Quiros or CdQ wielded his sharp...
Infrastructure
by Iris Gonzales - November 7, 2023 - 12:00am
Driving in Metro Manila, especially during rush hour, is not for the faint of heart or the mentally unstable, and especially not for gun-toting motorists who may easily blow their top over the slightest inconve...
Save Dumaguete
by Iris Gonzales - November 5, 2023 - 12:00am
If you’ve been to Dumaguete even just once, you will understand why the gentle people – as the people of this place are called – are against any reclamation plan in this city on Negros Island.
The day of the dead
by Iris Gonzales - November 2, 2023 - 12:00am
Days and nights and holidays for journalists are sort of distorted because, as one newsroom says, “hindi natutulog ang balita.” News never stops indeed, which is why people in the media work on Sundays...
Converge ICT’s amazing Grace
by Iris Gonzales - October 31, 2023 - 12:00am
The deities of the universe must have whispered to her parents’ ears what name would best fit her. Thus, the most befitting name was given to Maria Grace Uy. The president and co-founder of Converge ICT Solutions...
Why are countries banning TikTok?
by Iris Gonzales - October 29, 2023 - 12:00am
If Tombstone in Arizona was considered one of the most feared places of all wild, wild West towns of the 1800s because of so much lawlessness and gunfights, the worldwide web’s version may be the immensely...
We, the launderers
by Iris Gonzales - October 26, 2023 - 12:00am
(Somewhere in Europe) – At the airport, the man at the foreign exchange counter was doing his usual routine.
Cabinet reshuffle
by Iris Gonzales - October 24, 2023 - 12:00am
Where there’s smoke there’s fire, so goes the old adage found in English writer John Heywood’s Collection of Proverbs.
Stressed and sleepless in Manila
by Iris Gonzales - October 22, 2023 - 12:00am
For some people in our nation of 114 million, time is reversed, not a sort of strange and melting clock as in Salvador Dali’s “Persistence of Memory” but totally reversed as in, night becomes day...
Sharks and minnows
by Iris Gonzales - October 19, 2023 - 12:00am
It’s a seemingly never ending, nerve wracking game of sharks and minnows; every Filipino fisherman or every man guarding our seas may feel extra jittery nowadays whenever the job takes them to the disputed...
A future-ready university
by Iris Gonzales - October 17, 2023 - 12:00am
Sprawled at the foothills of the famed and enigmatic Mt. Makiling, the University of the Philippines Los Baños campus is perhaps the most relaxing UP campus around the country.
Enemies of the nation
by Iris Gonzales - October 15, 2023 - 12:00am
The plot thickens every day. Rody Duterte, the ex-president, suddenly emerged from retirement to come to the rescue of his daughter, vice president Sara Duterte, on the controversial secret funds issue.
The madness of war
by Iris Gonzales - October 12, 2023 - 12:00am
A supernova, scientists say, is the colossal explosion of a star, turning it into a stellar spectacle in the galaxy and is often believed to bring great prosperity to earth.
‘PR Matters’
by Iris Gonzales - October 10, 2023 - 12:00am
It’s been a busier-than-usual past couple of days in newsrooms here, there and everywhere – from the heartbreaking war that erupted between Israel and Hamas that has already left over a hundred people...
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