MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Do you hear the hooves of the Horses as they approach? War in Ukraine, invasion by Russia. Famine, or in the words of the UN, a food crisis that could lead to a global shortage next year. Pestilence – Covid, dengue, monkeypox, HIV-AIDS, ASF, bird flu. Conquest – think...
By ATTY. DANIEL Y. LAOGAN During the 1980s yours truly served as one of the senior officers of the Federation of Filipino Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Inc., the umbrella organization of close to 200 chambers of commerce all over the Philippines. I was witness to the tremendous...
#MINDANAO John Tria The amount of foreign direct investment received in a year is a metric often cited by analysts to show investor interest in a particular economy. The recent report that 10.5 billion dollars in foreign direct investment was gained by the country in 2021 is higher than the...
#MINDANAO John Tria Recent announcements regarding the national economy's 5.7 percent growth in 2021 will definitely inspire confidence among many to imagine an even better recovery for their businesses and the over all economy for 2022. Likewise, the latest surveys from the Social Weather Stations...
Are we endemic yet? CLINICAL MATTERS Six hundred thousand new Covid-19 cases in one day in South Korea! Nearly 300,000 in Germany! Almost 200,000 in Vietnam! These numbers almost sound made up. Unimaginable. While many people were apoplectic at the nearly 39,000 cases we had in January 2022, the...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye Until recently, my knowledge of Ukraine (Crimea in particular) was limited to what I picked up in high school. My English teacher, who also happened to be my mother, Sofia Rivera Bunye, asked her class to memorize “Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred Lord...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz A lot has been going on, especially as we went into full election campaign mode. I forgot to remember and to mark the eighth anniversary of this column here on the Manila Bulletin. I started this on Jan. 5, 2014, initially coming out twice weekly. Yes, folks, it has been eight...
Here's a question on the emerging dynamics between Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio and former senator Bongbong Marcos: Why does she refer to him as "Apo" BBM? APO BBM AND ME--Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio (lett) and former senator Bongbong Marcos attend a campaign sortie in Valenzuela...
Isolation, quarantine, and what it means in the age of Omicron and Delta CLINICAL MATTERS Many people, including doctors, were puzzled by the recent changes made by the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to the duration of quarantine and isolation. The CDC shortened both quarantine and isolation...
Why did the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) retain the country’s alert level 2 status despite the "concerning" rise daily coronavirus disease (COVID-19)? (Viktor Forgacs/ Unsplash) According to Cabinet Secretary and IATF Spokesperson Karlo...
NIGHT OWL Anna Mae Lamentillo Atty. Margarita Ignacia “Migs” B. Nograles has yet to be officially a public servant, but she’s already serving the public in her own way. Through her online show, “Ask Atty. Migs Nograles”, she provides free legal advice to people across the country. She...
Word Alive FR. BEL SAN LUIS, SVD One night, a stormy rain stranded a couple on a remote country road. Unable to go any farther, they got out of their car and walked toward a dimly lit farmhouse. When they reached the house, an elderly couple, carrying a kerosene lamp, met them at the door....
