THE RIGHT MOVE If there is a universal event nearly every nation in the globe celebrates, it must be New Year’s Eve. In my travels, I had been amazed at how some countries were able to distinguish themselves as New Year’s Eve destinations, and consequently, over the years, have embedded their...
THE RIGHT MOVE While foreigners are often amazed and even quite perplexed why the Philippines celebrates Christmas for four months starting September, this is still not the most unusual way of celebrating the Christmas season. All around the world, different countries have their unique ways of...
THE RIGHT MOVE RIKKI MATHAY We know that we are finally at the age of post-pandemic – despite the rising cases of Covid the past weeks – when hotels and resorts are fully booked for parties and staycations especially during the holidays. The hospitality industry took a hard blow from the...
THE RIGHT MOVE RIKKI MATHAY The global population exploded from one billion in 1800 to 7.9 billion in 2020 – not even counting the population boom during the pandemic lockdown. Chatting with University of the Philippines president, Atty. Danilo Concepcion or DaniCon as he is better known, I found...
THE RIGHT MOVE With the incessant problem of traffic jams, even car owners have been opting to take the much more convenient car services offered by transport network companies (TNC). In the Philippines, we do not have as many choices as they do in other countries as there are not many TNCs,...
THE RIGHT MOVE Rikki Mathay You’ll be surprised with the thousands of cases handled by documentation lawyers just to correct a wrong entry in a legal document. The most common of these is corrections in “sex” found in birth certificates. There are those born male but registered female. ...
THE RIGHT MOVE Gone are the days when there were more women than men in the country. Latest statistics show that “the percentage of female population is 49.8 percent compared to 50.2 percent male population” or that’s 55.74 million males and 55.31 million females in the Philippines. More and...
THE RIGHT MOVE As face-to-face classes have recently resumed in nearly all schools in the Philippines, the issue of bullying and teen suicide have become hot topics in various chat groups as incidents of student suicide attempts have been recently reported in schools due to bullying, albeit school...
THE RIGHT MOVE Philippine dentistry has come a long way since the early Filipinos had been practicing a crude version of dentistry pre-Spanish colonization in the 1500s. In fact, dental tourism has been a booming industry with foreigners and balikbayans choosing the Filipino dentists’ world-class...
THE RIGHT MOVE NCAP or the No Contact Apprehension Policy, is a system where cars are already ticketed for traffic violations without the intervention of traffic enforcers. Supposedly, state-of-the-art cameras with artificial intelligence technology photograph and record the conduction stickers and...
THE RIGHT MOVE Chinese Filipinos (Chinoys) are one of the largest overseas Chinese communities in Southeast Asia with Chinese immigration to the Philippines occurring mostly during the Spanish colonization of the islands between the 16th and 19th centuries. The most recent data on the Chinoy...
THE RIGHT MOVE Social media has been abuzz the past months with warring celebrity couples giving way to “socmed lawyers” the same way we saw “socmed doctors” firing up debates during the height of the pandemic. Information is power and misinformation not only breeds contempt, but can cause...
