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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 17:00:27 +0000

  LIFE used to be so simple. Now we have to know how to read LGBTQIAplus without forgetting F and M. Senator Koko Pimentel was aghast at his own ignorance in translating those connected let­ters. A cellphone message to a TV show asked how come the major­ity has always had to adjust to the minority. […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 17:30:23 +0000

  I GOT a headache listening to the Senate hearing on traffic and how to undo those jams that make EDSA a daily nightmare. Which is unfair to EDSA – you’re in la-la-land if you think our traffic woes are confined to EDSA. Poor Mr. Epifanio de los Santos, to have his name dragged through […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 11:18:55 +0000

  A MATTER of “grave concern” to the Chinese embassy: “In many cases, the employers of Philippine casinos, POGOs and other forms of gambling entities do not apply neces­sary legal work permits for their Chi­nese employees. Some Chinese citi­zens are even lured into and cheated to work illegally with only tourist vi­sas.” To make both […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2019 17:35:12 +0000

  A FLOOD-free, P179 billion subway? The way Antonio Lee Tiu puts it, “The subway will prevent floods.” Those of us who fear a scenario of being trapped 10 stories un­derground in a train when it rains may take refuge in physics: Wa­ter seeks its own level. As the 44-year-old builder of the first sub­way […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2019 16:30:14 +0000

  (DISCERNING readers of a cer­tain age would call it a senior moment. But when I wrote in this space last Thursday, July 29, that Chi­na’s GDP of US$10,000 is second high­est in the world, it was plainly a mis­take, no excuses, no seniority issues. Ten thousand dollars is NOT China’s GDP, it’s China’s per […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 16:31:14 +0000

  A RECENT survey showed a low trust rating for China, with the US at the high end. Hard to imag­ine that only one generation ago, Chairman Mao was the saint and savior of activists who would bring down the Marcos government, lib­erate peasants and laborers mired in poverty, and seek intellectual and political sanctuary […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 17:00:47 +0000

  UNTIL it happens to your neigh­bor, or someone you know, dengue is nothing more than an outbreak happening in some dis­tant place not your own. But when the mosquito bites your neighbor next door, alarm bells ring – it can only mean the dengue mosquito is flying close by. That was what struck me, […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 16:35:16 +0000

  WHEN the US State Depart­ment sent Sung Kim over as America’s ambassador to the Phil­ippines, I was on pins and needles wondering what kind of word war our President would unleash at the envoy and his country. Am­bassador Sung’s predecessor did not leave with a diplomatic pouch filled with 100 percent happy memories, not […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 17:30:35 +0000

  AS soon as Manny the Pac­man decides to hang up his gloves – after an upcoming fight in Saudi Arabia in November? – we should make him traffic czar. He’s the only one who can stop traffic. He’s the only one who unifies this fractious nation of 100 million lawbreakers. He uses words sparingly, […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 17:10:40 +0000

  LIKE a breath of fresh air, May­or Isko Moreno is the new star of the local government scene. US Ambassador Sung Kim called him a rock star. I’d describe him as the media darling of the habagat sea­son. Things are happening so fast the tweets, posts, SMSes and selfies can’t keep up. Isko didn’t […]