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 The last time I saw FVR he was in casual clothes coming out of the Grand Hyatt hotel in BGC. In the next instant, he was wriggling himself, body and beret and soul, into the passenger window of his SUV. The contortionist’s act caught everyone by surprise as they stood...
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 No offense to vampires and Red Cross, but fresh blood is what the man wants. In the middle of his SONA last Monday, President BBM, sounding like his alter ego, the DA secretary, said “fresh blood in the agriculture sector” is needed, such as scientific farming and...
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 For every action there’s an equal and opposite reaction. During the dry summer months, water interruptions in several parts of Metro Manila were as regular as the sun rising in the east. During the monsoon season, with clouds and rainfall tempering the weather, we’re...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Who’s afraid of the Kindergarten-to Grade 12 program? There’s plenty to unlike if your teachers put you in constant agony instead of leading you to discover the joy of learning, or if your parents want you out of there quick and holding down a job. Yes, 46 percent of...
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...
