Filipinos in Germany and Ireland
By Malou Guanzon-ApalisokJune 12, Independence Day had me watching a cable news program featuring random interviews of pedestrians and their thoughts about love of country.
June 12, Independence Day had me watching a cable news program featuring random interviews of pedestrians and their thoughts about love of country.
I don’t own a car and don’t drive one so may I talk about the case of one Janez “Jay” Zrozobrado, the distressed buyer of a Ford Focus Titanium. Jay is my neighbour in a subdivision in Lagtang, Talisay City. He and his wife Johanna are likeable people who verily represent young, upwardly mobile professionals [...]
President Benigno Aquino III is expected to be back from a three-day visit to Myanmar where he attended the 22nd World Economic Forum (WEF) and basked in international recognition for his anti-corruption drive and the country’s stunning economic performance for the first quarter of the year.
Move over China. The newest economic dragon is the Philippines. The biggest news in Asia and the economic universe is the stellar growth of the Philippine economy in the first quarter of 2013.
Cybersex trade in Cordova, Cebu is all over the news and just like in 2011 when a couple was arrested for engaging in the same business using their own children and a young relative as objects of the unspeakable crime, last week agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) pounced on the parents of [...]
I woke up Tuesday morning hearing updates about the local races and listening to broadcast media colleagues analyze the defeat of Congressman Eduardo Gullas in Talisay City’s mayoralty race.
Today is D-day for senatorial, congressional and local candidates as they vie for 17,000 electoral positions in the country’s second automated elections.
At the weekly 888 News Forum held last Tuesday in Marco Polo Plaza, Cebu City south district Rep. Tomas “Tommy” Osmeña said the mayoralty race remains fluid, indicating there is no issue that has polarized the public enough for voters to take a vehement stand or convincing positions either for or against the candidates. Tommy [...]
The campaign for the May 13, 2013 midterm elections, which winds up in a matter of six days competes with the average daily temperature, at 30 degrees Celsius to 33 degrees Celsius. It is scorching hot.
At the third quarterly meeting of the Cebu Citizens-Press Council that I attended upon the invitation of this paper’s publisher, Eileen Mangubat, I could almost hear the snickers of some media colleagues when a young woman stood up to give updates about a citizens’ campaign against vote-buying.
Who is Johnny de los Reyes and what has he done to make Talisay City politics less, if not no longer predictable? Kinsa ka man nga moparang Eddiegul? This was the question I asked businessman Johnny de los Reyes, a.k.a. JVR to Talisaynons during the 888 News Forum last Tuesday. JVR is running for mayor [...]
Dagupan City—More than 120 theologians, academics, religious, seminarians and students mostly from the University of Santo Tomas and from other parts of Luzon converged in this northern city since Sunday for the 3rd Asia-Oceania Mariological Conference. I owe the privilege of joining the gathering to Sister Isabell Nauman, a secular nun of the Schoenstatt Sisters [...]
The catchy phrase outlines the series of candidates’ fora which reels off on Wednesday at the Cebu Cultural Center of the University of the Philippines Cebu in Lahug, Cebu City.
