MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Not the top performers of the Philippine economy who posted fantastic gains in the first half of the year, Mabuhay! May your profits bring you more reasons to distribute more of the goodies and hire more employables. The top performers a la Obiena, according to a short...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Inspiration breeds aspiration leads to perspiration. So like the bamboo that sleeps, creeps, leaps! During the campaign, BBM did not so much promise to bring down the price of rice to ₱20 a kilo as to express an aspiration. The clerk who’ll never get to own a...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza When it rains, it pours. With families still recovering from whatever disasters that have hit them, life’s still a touch-and-go. But let’s not label ourselves a “disaster-prone” country, for words have their power. Let the latest LPA in, we’re used to them. What...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Manila, second home of prosperous Hong Kongers? For people like the mega-billionaire Andrew Tan, who was born in China but raised in Hong Kong, something about Manila must’ve exuded the sweet smell of success. For, at age 16, or so the story goes, and having decided...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza In 1990, when the earthquake struck at magnitude 7.7 on July 16, friends asked one another, “Where were you when it happened?” This time around, July 27, 2022, with the earth shaking at magnitude 7, the question of the day was, “How old were you in 1990?”...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza With a new government under a new president, and the past staying in the past, it’s a useful exercise nonetheless to glance back and see how far we’ve come since the last two-and-a-half years. (I for one cannot imagine what those early Covid-19 times would’ve been...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza While all other experts, including those in the Department of Finance, agree that the economy will grow by 6 to 6.5 percent, Henry Lim Bon Liong, “hybrid rice king” and president of the Federation of Filipino-Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry Inc., is standing...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza And feet on the ground. Two women made the news this week and they’re heaven-and-earth apart in their orientations. Dr. Ma. Rosario Vergeire, named to head DOH as officer in charge, who has been a constant presence five, six days a week for the last two years on our...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza On our way to The Manila Hotel in her almost-new Beamer, I asked Lolita’s driver to show me the Binondo-Intramuros bridge designed and built as a friendship project of the People’s Republic of China. Snaking through a labyrinth of narrow streets and alleys, we were...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza It was the shot heard around the world. Right on cue Anderson Cooper compared America’s so-called “gunslinging” culture with Japan’s strict gun control laws, a fact that did not help former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe escape an assassin’s bullet during a campaign...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza PBBM has 110 million reasons to fuel his confidence in a nation united and working together. At The Manila Hotel last Monday, the celebration was all about looking forward to another 110 years of peace, prosperity, happy moments to collect as elegant memories and...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza And he’s off and running! “Your dreams are mine.” In English, once, and Filipino, four times. What is the dream? “The changes we seek will offend no one,” just as “I did not offend any one of my rivals during the campaign. I saw little incompatibility with my...
