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By Antonio S. Lopez Pharmally did not even have the inventory of the 500,000 face masks, nor did it have the warehouse to store the masks. A Pharmally official, Lincolnn Ong, a Pharmally director, simply [...]

Pharmally and Duterte’s love

September 18, 2021 Comments Off

GORDON TO GO

September 10, 2021 Comments Off

“Where did the billions go?” By Senator Richard Gordon (Speech delivered in response to the privilege speech of Senator Bong Go, Aug, 31, 2021) I really am sad na napunta tayo rito sa malungkot na sitwasyon. […]

ECONOMIC RECOVERY IN 2023

September 3, 2021 Comments Off

When the government reported an 11.8% gain in the country’s output of goods and services or GDP in the second quarter, it declared the end of the recession. The news of the end of the […]

PH PANDEMIC WORSENS

August 27, 2021 Comments Off

The Philippine pandemic situation has turned for the worse—in fact, the worst since COVID-19 entered the archipelago in February 2020. The country as of Aug. 25, 2021, had 1.883 million cases, with 1.725 million recovered […]

“LET US RISE AS A NATION”

July 30, 2021 Comments Off

Kindly sit down. By far this is the most beautiful SONA crowd that ever happened here. [applause and cheers] So many — so many beautiful faces and you only have to guess when you see […]

THE LOOMING ENERGY CRISIS: WHO IS TO BLAME?

July 14, 2021 Comments Off

Is there a looming electricity shortage, what experts call an energy crisis? Well, it seems. The brownouts that swept the main island of Luzon on May 31 to June 2 are the precursor of things […]

How to Write a Mystery—A Handbook from Mystery Writers of America

September 18, 2021 Comments Off

Edited by Lee Child with Laurie R. King Hardcover, 326 pages, 2021. Scribner Fans of detective stories, mystery, and thrillers will love this compilation of their beloved writers on how to write gripping novels. Edited […]

When a recipe for murder is ignored

September 18, 2021 Comments Off

I was excited to read “Arsenic and Adobo” by Mia Manansala, a Filipino-American in Chicago. This year’s book trends show that US publishers have actively sought non-white, Asian, and female writers—authors historically ignored in the […]

BOOK TRENDS 2021

July 16, 2021 Comments Off

While the 2020 pandemic raged around the world, racists raged against Asians. Amid the abuse, Asian books surged in popularity. The book-into-movie “Crazy Rich Asians” in 2018 signaled the worldwide bankability of Asians in movies […]

OPENING MINDS

August 20, 2021 Comments Off

By Selma Wassermann Hardcover, 98 pages, 2021. Rowman & Littlefield “Learning to think intelligently, like learning to derive meaning from the written word, requires experience and practice.” That’s why parents who want their children to […]

MOVING TO HIGHER GROUND

August 13, 2021 Comments Off

By John Englander Hardcover, 223 pages, 2021. Girl Friday Productions “Even if we could immediately stop all carbon dioxide emissions and the warming, the excess heat stored in the sea will continue to melt the […]

I AM NOT A LABEL: 34 DISABLED ARTISTS, THINKERS, ATHLETES AND ACTIVISTS FROM PAST AND PRESENT

August 6, 2021 Comments Off

By Cerrie Burnell Illustrated by Lauren Mark Baldo Hardcover, 34 pages, 2020. Wide Eyed Editions (Quarto Group) disability is a reduction of function or the absence of a particular body part or organ. It can […]