AT THE TABLE A scene from the movie adaptation of Angela's Ashes I’ve always had happy Christmases, except two. The first was Christmas in 1991, when my boss sent me to look for a printer that could on a very nonexistent chance still be open after the holiday rush on Dec....
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House Since March this year, the world has been going through the gravest health and economic crisis in 100 years due to COVID-19. As of this writing three days ago, it has infected 72,556,942 people and claimed 1,637,155 lives worldwide. The US...
Actress Kathryn Bernardo has insisted she never had nose surgery. Bernardo, star of the series "The House Arrest of Us," made the clarification when she appeared in the "Never Have I Ever" portion of Dr. Aivee Teo's YouTube show recently. When asked about nose surgery, Kathryn answered:...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House News reports have it that the question/debate surrounding the actual height of Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak, has finally been resolved. It is 8,848.86 meters or 29,032 feet, the Nepali government announced a few days ago. We...
Sen. Juan Miguel Zubiri (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) Filipino martial arts officials have recently stood united to fight against the proposed bill in Congress seeking to ban combat sports for minors. The group was composed of 13 national sports associations that included Senator Migs Zubiri of...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House The killing last of week of Iran’s top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in the country’s capital Tehran has added fuel to the fire of tensions in the already precarious situation in the Middle East. We hope Iran, Israel, which is...
Buhay Party-list Representative and Deputy House Speaker Lito Atienza Buhay Party-list Representative and Deputy House Speaker Lito Atienza said on Friday Dec. 3 that our government should give its full support to the entertainment industry if we want to achieve success similar to K-Pop...
Twin Glass Treehouse at Tudor in the Pines Who were fans of the glasshouses ever since Edward Cullen crawled out his architectural marvel when Twilight premiered? Us. That’s right. We couldn’t stop dreaming about all the things we could do and see there, especially during the quarantine....
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House In February, 2010, in Seoul, we proposed to then Foreign Minister Yu MyungHwan the establishment in Manila of a Philippines-South Korea University, following our much earlier discussions with then Korean Ambassador in Manila, HE Choi...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House We sincerely thank God that at almost 84, the Lord has given us fair health and some residual energy. Before the onslaught of the global Coronavirus pandemic, which has harshly disrupted and claimed more than a million lives worldwide, we...
Dismayed over the Philippines disaster responses in the recent typhoons, Business groups have urged Filipinos to move in an efficient fashion in partnership with local government units to mitigate the impact of climate change. “We express serious concern about the state of our...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House Elected as one of the youngest US senators in 1972 at the age of 29, Delaware’s favourite son seems to be the would-be oldest-elected president of the United States, at 77. We do not wish to speak yet with finality on Biden’s victory...
