THE RIGHT MOVE RIKKI MATHAY I have men and women friends who are gay. Growing up, I saw them as only either gay or lesbian. But with the LGBTQ movement making its way into mainstream media in the past decades, many were introduced to the complexity of gender identification. LGBTQ is an acronym for...
More than 700,000 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were donated by the United States (US) to the Philippines. (Photo courtesy of the US Embassy in the Philippines) Through the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) facility, US donated a total of 769,860...
Three more members of K-pop girl group Apink and eight more members of girl group Loona have tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) while The Boyz’s Jacob was diagnosed with the virus in South Korea after vacationing in Canada. Apink IST Entertainment announced on March 1 that...
The Duterte administration’s budget deficit fell below ceiling last year driven mainly by higher than expected revenues as well as slightly below programmed spending, the Bureau of the Treasury reported. Data from the Treasury bureau showed Tuesday, March 1, that the national government incurred...
With a number of areas now under Alert Level 1, many are expected to troop to different churches for the observance of Ash Wednesday on March 2. Photo Manila Cathedral FB Churches already posted the schedule of their masses on Facebook, Tuesday, to help guide the faithful. Masses at the Manila...
The national government successfully borrowed P457.8 billion from small Filipino savers. The Bureau of the Treasury announced Tuesday, March 1, that the government raised P337 billion during the two-week offer period for the retail treasury bonds (RTBs), while the P120.8 billion were awarded during...
Senator Panfilo ‘Ping’ M. Lacson intends to equip the members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) with more military technology as the future of warfare is going to get more digital and electronic. Lacson, Partido Reporma chairman and standard-bearer, revealed this plan in a public...
Prepare to sink your teeth into the brand's famous fluffy, airy, and large doughnuts An avid Marvel Cinematic Universe fan knows that Tony Stark’s antidote to a hangover is doughnuts, particularly the ones from Randy’s Donuts. Now, if you’ve been dreaming of having some for yourself, you’re...
'Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore' This April, his secrets can save the world. Watch the latest trailer of “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” which has just been launched by Warner Bros. Pictures. Check out the trailer below and watch “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of...
Robert Pattinson is 'The Batman' Originally, I was going to entitle this feature, Getting Past Our Affleck-tion; but felt it would be kinder to let sleeping dogs (and bats) lie. After all, to be fair to Ben, he portrayed Batman only in two films, Batman Vs Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice...
UNDER THE MICROSCOPE Dr. Raymund W. Lo Fifty years ago, Sept. 21, 1972, to be exact, Ferdinand Marcos Sr. proclaimed martial law in the Philippines, beginning his reign of 14 years as an unelected president. I was then 21 years old and in second year medical school in UP. I distinctly remember it...
ONE FOR THE ROAD James Deakin Well that was sudden. After two years of draconian lockdowns and mandates, it took less than 24 hours for the global narrative to fall apart and even less time for every internet epidemiologist to become an expert in foreign policy and war. RIP COVID; long live...
