EDITORS DESK ROBERT REQUINTINA Looks like the people are finally heading back to movie theaters! Acting Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Atty. Romando “Don” Artes revealed that the ongoing 2022 Metro Manila Film Festival is a certified box-office hit in terms of...
EDITORS DESK Iñigo S. Roces The past year has seen our lives return to nearly pre-pandemic levels of normalcy. Workers have returned to their offices, face-to-face classes have resumed, and as expected, so has the traffic. Perhaps the only thing that hasn’t gone back down are fuel prices. Not...
EDITORS DESK Exactly a month ago, COP27 or the 2022 United Nations Climate Conference (aka 27th Conference of Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change), concluded without a “consensus” — supporters say that there were big strides especially on the aspect of “loss-and-damage...
EDITORS DESK Warning! Cybercriminals are always out there looking for someone to scam. This Christmas, expect them to find creative ways to lure victims to believe that what they are presenting are legitimate business offers. To attract you, cybercriminals want you to think that the messages are...
EDITORS DESK Bernie Cahiles-Magkilat Even before the pandemic, the term digitalization was already floating out there. But when the pandemic broke out, the term became a household name. The exigency of the times has forced the government and the private sector to run to technology for comfort....
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,...
