LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta While we were talking about unscrupulous people who steal ideas with impunity, I asked Atty. Daniel Hofileña, expert in the Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines, about the fate of the HOCUS paintings. None of these are for sale and the next best thing to...
From left, Olympic-bound athletes boxer Eumir Felix Marcial, pole vaulter EJ Obiena, gymnast Carlos Yulo, boxer Irish Magno (Handout Photos) Philippines’ chief of mission to the Tokyo Games Nonong Araneta believes the present batch of Olympic qualifiers and hopefuls have the strongest chance of...
The PFF National Training Centre in Carmona, Cavite (Photo from PFF) It will now be the turn of the Philippines Football League training sessions, beginning with three clubs on Wednesday at the Philippine Football Federation National Training Centre in Carmona, Cavite. PFL commissioner Coco Torre...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta During a weekly zoom session with former classmates, one of them complained that she saw an almost exact copy of a Manansala she had inherited, in an on-line catalogue of an auction house. Another one detected a perfume of fraud when a copy of her own painting was for...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta At this writing, the venerable Senate of the Philippines and the House of Representatives are about to have a bicameral meeting about what to do with the P162-billion pandemic fund provided by the Bayanihan 2 bill. I was informed that P10 billion has been earmarked...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta Very few remember that he went rogue during People Power 1 – he disobeyed the orders of the Commander-in-Chief and found ways to divert the menacing army tanks from entering EDSA where thousands were already gathered to protest against the dictatorship. When he was...
LANDSCAPE Pandemics like COVID-19 are nothing new. Through the centuries, humankind had gone through a number of episodic plagues and virulent pestilences that only the fittest survived. European archeologists have found evidence that the first pandemic sprang...
PBA, Chooks 3x3, PFL practice sessions delayed anew PFF president Nonong Araneta, Chooks 3x3 commissioner Eric Altamirano and PBA commissioner Willie Marcial (Handout / PBA Images) The planned return of practices in the professional level suffered a setback after the government imposed Modified...
Barring any hitch surrounding the recent change in ownership, United City FC will play its remaining group stage matches in the AFC Cup in Vietnam this September. The Asian Football Confederation made the announcement Thursday with Vietnam set to host Group F in Ho Chi Minh City and Group G in...
LANDSCAPE I know it is none of my damned business to comment on what is going on in the United States of America. I have kept my thoughts to myself and have been careful not to share them with former classmates who have made...
okyo Olympics chief of mission Nonong Araneta (Jonas Terrado) Chief of mission Nonong Araneta is entering the homestretch of his daily online discussions with leaders of about 16 national sports associations that have athletes waiting for the green light to resume full-scale training for qualifying...
Philippines Football League champion Ceres-Negros will now be known as United City FC after a group of investors completed the transfer of ownership on Thursday. MMC Sportz Asia announced the transaction, two weeks after Ceres management announced that it was looking for a new set of owners that...
