ENDEAVOR Inside a three-story building on a side street of Don Arcadio Santos Avenue, more popularly known as Sucat Road in Parañaque, about half-a-kilometer from the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX), production workers clad in white smocks, white hair bonnets, gloves, and blue shoe sleeves, go about...
ENDEAVOR At around 10 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 22, 1972, I joined a big crowd gathered at the steps of Palma Hall, more popularly known then as the building of the College of Arts and Sciences (AS) in the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman campus. Wearing a barong with rolled up sleeves,...
ENDEAVOR In the afterglow of Carlos Yulo’s golden triumph, we join millions of proud Filipinos relishing this proud moment for our country. The morning after Yulo won his second gold medal in the Paris Olympics, my daughter told her son, “It took your lolo 68 years to witness a Filipino win an...
ENDEAVOR “Let me be absolutely clear. For more than 60 years, the United States and the Philippines have been bound by a mutual defense treaty. And this treaty means our two nations pledge – and I’m quoting – our “common determination to defend themselves against external armed...
ENDEAVOR Viewing the live television coverage of President Marcos’ third State of the Nation Address (SONA) last Monday, July 22, proved to be an engaging experience. His delivery was clear and confident. Evidently, he had rehearsed for it adequately – shown by his well-paced delivery and...
ENDEAVOR It was not until I heard former Senator Panfilo ‘Ping’ Lacson discuss with reporters who asked him to comment on an issue involving Vice President Sara Duterte, that I realized it was a matter that deserves serious consideration. According to media reports, Vice President Duterte said...
ENDEAVOR “Wander, explore and discover, in one continuous borderless world.” This is the invitation from teamLab Borderless, the entity behind the MORI Building Digital Arts Museum. In 70 minutes inside the museum in Azabudai Hills, near the Roppongi train station in Tokyo, I had a most...
ENDEAVOR “Parents in Europe reject smartphones for kids.” This was the headline of an Associated Press dispatch from Barcelona, Spain that was featured in Manila Bulletin’s World News page last weekend. Concerned about my own seven-year-old grandson’s penchant for using smartphones and...
ENDEAVOR Filipino-American Nobel laureate Maria Ressa shared the limelight with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock before some 1,500 participants at the 17th Global Media Forum earlier this week in Bonn under the auspices of the state-owned broadcasting company Deutsche Welle. Minister...
ENDEAVOR Together with fisherfolk, children and individuals residing in rural areas, farmers belong to the poorest sectors of Philippine society according to the Philippine Statistics Authority’s (PSA) latest poverty incidence study (2021). Nearly one out of three fisherfolk and farmers, 30.6 and...
ENDEAVOR Where were you when the first Covid-19 lockdown was announced? For us baby boomers, this question brings to mind two milestone experiences that happened in succession 50 years earlier: The first man-on-the-moon landing by Neil Armstrong on July 20, 1969, the day after Gloria Diaz became...
ENDEAVOR Last April 20, on the top floor of a building at Bonifacio Global City, I joined my friends from the People Management Association of the Philippines (PMAP) – Rico de Guzman, Vir and Grace Zata, Cecille Huidem and Bobby Galvez – in a chat with Mary Grace Dimacali, founder-owner-CEO of...
