EDITORS DESK Ramon Bonilla As if the Philippines had distanced itself from the outside festivity, making this island nation a shelter from the pandemonium that is driving the rest of the world crazy, the nearly month-long FIFA World Cup could have been the season we’ve been buzzing around, at...
EDITORS DESK Iñigo S. Roces Over the weekend, news spread of a rider couple who perished in an unfortunate accident. The pair are not newbies to riding, and set off on what appeared to be yet another routine weekend ride. Unfortunately, a miscalculation led to their motorcycle overshooting the...
EDITORS DESK Iñigo S. Roces Easily the bane of many motorists in Metro Manila is the number coding scheme that prohibits vehicles from using the roads during peak hours based on the last digit of their plate number. This vehicle reduction program was implemented in the hopes of reducing traffic on...
EDITORS DESK ROBERT REQUINTINA Long before I was appointed Entertainment head of the country's biggest newspaper, the Manila Bulletin, I was a news correspondent who covered the police and defense beats. In one of my unforgettable coverages, I survived a fiery landing with 12 others, including...
EDITORS DESK Iñigo S. Roces Recently, local government units like Quezon City and Pasay have begun to employ their own No Contact Apprehension Programs (NCAP) to catch erring motorists, particularly at some troublesome intersections. Granted, NCAP can be a big boon to traffic enforcement,...
EDITORS DESK Environment writers have been calling out the attention of authorities and our country’s leaders to look into the plastic pollution crisis that is now happening. This is an inevitable outcome of a long pandemic that relied on plastics, especially single-use plastics, to protect us...
EDITORS DESK BERNIE CAHILES-MAGKILAT Philip Morris International (PMI), the world’s premier cigarette manufacturer, has poured in a mind-boggling $9 billion for research and development to produce smoke-free cigarette alternatives. PMI gathered an impressive ensemble of 900 scientists, engineers,...
EDITORS DESK Iñigo S. Roces The shift to electric vehicles (EV) in the Philippines is finally picking up steam. Evidence of this are growing sales figures of electric vehicles, new fully-electric models being offered, and charging stations now popping up with more frequency. Commercial...
EDITORS DESK Ramon Bonilla The Philippines was once a boxing mecca, a mass producer of pugs whose rags to riches stories became the blueprint for the young and feisty. For decades, Filipino boxers seemed to have followed the path of the old greats, the same route that is from the slums to the steps...
EDITORS DESK ROBERT REQUINTINA Do you still remember the Metro Manila Popular Music Festival or Metropop? The music festival was the country's most prestigious songwriting competition from 1978 to 1985. It successfully promoted the advancement of Filipino music, as it launched the careers of many...
EDITORS DESK Iñigo S. Roces Earlier this year, SM Supermalls made waves by providing electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in some of Manila’s favorite malls. By providing these charging stations, EV owners will, no doubt, be encouraged to patronize these malls knowing that their vehicle will...
EDITORS DESK BERNIE CAHILES-MAGKILAT It’s more than a month since we exercised our freedom to vote. To the losers, no reason can suffice our inner search for an answer. Perhaps, Filipinos just chose to forget for good. All the more, we disdained self-righteousness. Probably, the “bahala na”...
