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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2019 07:55:25 +0000

  LIFE is short, no matter how long you’ve lived, no matter how old you are. The series of terrifying earthquakes that hit a large area of the largest island of Mindanao is just such a reminder. At 20 dead with an unknown number missing, the temptation is strong to compare the similarity of those […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 16:15:45 +0000

  SPEAKING as an unlicensed medical consultant and sur­vivor of that thing called severe muscle pain, I can attest that acupuncture is the shortest way to pain management. Not everybody believes in acu­puncture although the Chinese have lived with it and its easy, in­expensive applications for 3,000 years. One of the most famous practitioners is […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:03 +0000

  HAPPY Halloween! In the old days when we were young, the short season of remembering the dear departed was known as “todos los santos,” the English translation being All Saints Day. These days the kids, they who rule our lives and whose lives rule our hours and days, prefer to mark All Saints (Nov. […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 16:30:57 +0000

  VICKY Belo, who makes the beautiful irresistible and the not-so-beautiful hopeful, agrees that clean air retards ageing by keeping the skin glowing and the body’s organs healthy, skin being the largest organ. The US armed forces believe in keeping their soldiers strong and stronger even when they’re already the planet’s strongest, by giving them […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 16:15:20 +0000

  STORE water but not too much. Your life may be interrupted, disrupted but don’t complain overly much. Two months before Christmas and it’s summer again, too soon. Two sum­mers in one year, in an archipelago surrounded by oceans, lakes, rivers, springs, falls, bays, creeks. Not enough rain to fill the dams? The water resources […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 16:30:57 +0000

  SHIRLEY and her husband are part of a fishing community. Typically, a fisherman earns P1,000 a day, but on an exceptionally lucky day, they can make up to P11,000. You can see why they are against reclamation, but even with two dy­namic, outspoken ladies, Sen. Cyn­thia Villar and Rep. Baby Arenas, championing their cause, […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 16:30:52 +0000

  CORRUPTION is shameful even to those who spread and relish its fruits, so much so that it has to happen in the shadows, behind closed doors, out of sight. But not always. There’s another category of corruption and it’s so shameless that the corrupt dare to exhibit its ugly face out there in the […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 16:30:12 +0000

  WHAT kind of policemen do we have who need to be told, over and over again, re­minded from here to eternity, that they are not allowed to ac­cept gifts or bribes, not to take what is not theirs? Do they have to be told to wear their uniform with spiff and pride? Those orders […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 16:30:40 +0000

  SAID a former NBI officer, “What General Albayalde had to go through, facing his men and bidding them farewell, it’s a cause for manly tears.” The mood was somber, the po­licemen in uniform marching before their chief for the last time. Their spirits were down, the atmosphere funereal. Remembering the state­ments of officers aired […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 17:00:29 +0000

  ONCE again the Presidential Com­mission for Good Government (PCGG) has lost an ill-gotten-wealth case against the Marcoses and their cronies, this time the Rustan’s cou­ple, Bienvenido Tantoco and the late Gliceria (Glecy). Litigation took something like 30 years before the Sandiganbayan, with only four wit­nesses and 11 photocopies (not originals) of documents presented, minus […]