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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 16:15:06 +0000

  DOCTORS, scientists, and other global experts from the United States, Europe, and Asia who conducted research and studies all agreed that electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) products are much less harmful than combustible cigarettes. What have we here? If this is all true, as experts claimed, it seems that the Philippines has taken the […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 16:30:06 +0000

    THE government’s Build Build Build thrust has been a hot topic in the past days, and many are led to evaluate how much growth and development have taken place in the past three years. One thing is sure, though: the demand for power has gone up drastically. If our country is determined to […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 16:00:36 +0000

  THE public should give Vice President Leni Robredo some space to pursue her policies as newly-appointed co-chair of the Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-illegal Drugs (ICAD). According to Presidential Spokes­person Salvador Panelo, although Robredo said earlier that she intends to enforce the government’s anti-narcotics policy without senseless killings, this should not be used to pit […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 17:00:40 +0000

  NO matter what some people say, it will be the hardest thing for anyone to prepare for the worst when it comes to earthquakes. Unlike storms whose movements can be read by weather machines, earthquakes are unpredictable and can occur even at the most unex­pected time. Just recently, a series of tremors struck Mindanao. […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 17:00:40 +0000

  NO matter what some people say, it will be the hardest thing for anyone to prepare for the worst when it comes to earthquakes. Unlike storms whose movements can be read by weather machines, earthquakes are unpredictable and can occur even at the most unex­pected time. Just recently, a series of tremors struck Mindanao. […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:05:22 +0000

  WHAT a long and grumpy day this must be for the dead. Before, when the living offered no more than a simple candle, a rose, and a short prayer, it was a spiritual reunion in the middle of earth and heaven most awaited by departed loved ones. Now, the dead could only wish they […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 16:45:34 +0000

  THE Philippines needs more power now. It is found wanting as evidenced by the series of yellow alerts that we have been experienc­ing in the Luzon network. We are already in the “ber” months, approaching Christmas, thus with the cooler temperatures, demand is supposed to be and ex­pected to be lower. Yet, our country […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 16:15:55 +0000

  WHEN General Oscar Albay­alde, Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief, stepped down from his post weeks ahead of his scheduled retirement, people were not surprised. They expect­ed it but could only guess his real reason or reasons for leaving. To a misbehaved govern­ment official, resignation could mean avoidance from dire con­sequences, cowardice in the face […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 11:45:42 +0000

  TO a lot of people, hazing or the holding of initiation rites of a fra­ternity has no place in civilized society since it has an all-too different view of the word brotherhood. Too many people have died and when we think that the ones behind fraternities have finally had enough and learned their lesson, […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 16:45:37 +0000

  THE memories of the past sum­mer months are still bright and fresh. The multiple yellow and red alerts we experienced during that period were an eye-opener for Filipino consumers, showing us that we desperately need more power supply and additional capacity to add to the grid. Well, it seems that the govern­ment and the […]