ENDEAVOR *“Hope endures in Türkiye as more survivors emerge from rubble on day 6 of rescue efforts” — Headline* *From Victims to Survivors: Tsunami Stories of Hope – World BOSAI Forum 2023 – Sendai International Center; Sendai, Japan* As the Turkish people picked up the pieces from the...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma A group of long-time friends, all members of a civic organization, resumed their monthly breakfast club and – heaving a collective sigh of relief – shared their experiences from the coronavirus pandemic. It’s barely a month before the third anniversary of the onset of...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma “The State shall protect and promote the right of all citizens to quality education at all levels, and shall take appropriate steps to make such education accessible to all.” This is the specific provision, Article IV, of the Constitution that underpins all efforts to seek...
First Lady Louise "Liza" Araneta-Marcos was one of the dignitaries who graced the 123rd founding anniversary celebration of the Manila Bulletin at the Manila Hotel on Thursday, Feb. 2. First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos joins Manila Bulletin executives as they raise a toast to Manila Bulletin's 123rd...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma At the Basic Education Summit convened by the Department of Education (DepED) this week, both President Marcos and Vice President Duterte, who is also education secretary, emphasized the government’s determination to do what is needed to ensure that the country’s youth...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Two Asia-Pacific leaders, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim of Malaysia and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand, provide contrasting profiles of leadership that students of political science would consider noteworthy. Jacinda Ardern, now 42 years old, became the world’s...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma The triumph of Filipino-American Miss USA R’Bonney Gabriel at the Miss Universe pageant last weekend landed on the front page of the Manila Bulletin. A designer-entrepreneur, she wore an evening gown designed by a Filipino couturier. Just below, the headline of another...
ENDEAVOR The past year ended not with a bang or a whimper but with a strong whiplash, as described by the Associated Press in this dispatch: MANILA - Thousands of people in the Philippines remained in emergency shelters in the wake of devastating Christmas flooding, as the death toll climbed to 51...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Nobody wanted it to happen, but it did. There will be time for a comprehensive analysis of what went wrong and the factors that caused the breakdown, and for demanding accountability. But it is imperative that steps be taken to rebuild what is apparently a system that needs to...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Sometime in my past life as a business newspaper columnist, I paused to reflect. What is it that prods me to write in a way that was critical, or even cynical? I realized that I was swimming with the tide and riding the wave of criticism against the powers-that-be and how they...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma My closest experience with a spontaneous celebration of a football World Cup championship happened in 2002. While riding a tour bus in Lisbon, Portugal, I witnessed a motorcade of jubilant fans celebrating Brazil’s 2-0 victory over Germany. Honking their horns, they shouted...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma “The wild future of artificial intelligence” was the catchy title of the Atlantic Daily newsletter’s email that prompted me to reflect on AI’s emergence in the forefront of the digital revolution. Associate editor Isabel Fattal and staff writer Derek Thompson talked...
