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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2019 16:15:42 +0000

  NO wang-wang for cam­paigning candidates, warns PNP. If they’d been apprehend­ing wang-wangers from day one of then President Benigno S. Aquino’s presidency, would the candidates or anyone else for that matter need a reminder? Only ambulances are allowed to use their sirens or klax­ons and only if there’s a pa­tient inside who needs urgent […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 16:00:11 +0000

  MORE than 300,000 Filipinos working over there in China. About the same number of Chinese over here holding jobs that they say Filipinos are not trained or able to do. Those are usually jobs requiring a knowledge of Mandarin when they man the machines for online gaming. The screens “speak” only Mandarin, Mandarin being […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 11:35:14 +0000

  PANDORA’S box in the Vatican has been opened. More se­crets, scandals, trouble ahead. In an apparition, the Blessed Vir­gin, Mother of God was quoted as saying that “the smoke of Satan has entered the Church.” She was referring to another scandal, that of heresy, but loosely interpret­ing her words, we might as well apply […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 16:10:43 +0000

  WHEN she walked into the room in her figure-hugging wine-colored dress (with matching lipstick), her hair flowed down to the waist, long and raven-black as the night. She spoke her greetings in Japanese, then switched to English, the English spoken by an English teacher which, as it turned out, was her former profession. Now […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 16:00:42 +0000

    IT was Manila’s fate to be caught between the super­sized ego of American Gen. Douglas MacArthur and the loy­alty of Japanese Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita to his emperor. The world’s two most powerful gen­erals fought the Battle of Manila at a cost of 100,000 civilian lives and the destruction of the Pearl of the […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:10:51 +0000

  IF there was anyone with a claim to a signature song, it was Armida Siguion-Reyna with her “Aawitan Kita.” Everything she touched turned into a statement of who she was and what she was about. Strong­willed, headstrong, highly opin­ionated and fiercely combative with a sword’s-edge sense of hu­mor, she truly enjoyed trouncing her enemies […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 16:20:08 +0000

    AS Ted Failon put it, we’re clean­ing up Manila Bay now for fu­ture reclamation? If a survey were to be taken, how many percent would approve of the cleanup? 101 percent! How many would want their bay reduced by reclamation? Zero or below-zero? It’s a case of serendipity that the news of hundreds […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 16:00:34 +0000

    WHEN James M. Scott sub­mitted the first draft of his book about the Battle of Manila that was fought between the world’s two most powerful gen­erals, his editor was appalled at the witness accounts of the wounds, decapitation and muti­lation of body parts, rape, tor­ture, the beastly slaughter of thousands and other unspeak­able […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 16:30:42 +0000

  I’VE been to Utopia and I’ve seen the future. Given the chance, every single blessed sen­atorial candidate in the May elec­tions will take us to the Promised Land. We have seen and heard them on radio and TV, gauged their performance, appreciated their promises, watched their passion, sincerity, and delighted at the no­bility of […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 16:10:01 +0000

    YOU think small when you light one candle at a time to dispel darkness. Illac Diaz, who should one day be chief of the United Nations, and his friends and volunteers have been cre­ating bottles of light – 350,000 as of last count – in more than 15 countries, each one-liter bot­tle designed […]