Category: General

(The following are excerpts from a letter  by Alexandra Lichauco-Smith addressed to Tony Lopez, editor-in-chief  of  BizNewsAsia. This is part of her effort to clear…

We are in the process of upgrading this blog. Thus, the technical difficulties that we encountered the past two days.I’m still adjusting to it. I noticed…

Last November, I posted here the article (click here) written by retired ambassador Reynaldo Arcilla on his travails with JP Morgan Chase Bank which appeared…

Something strange is happening to this blog the past 48 hours. First, it was inaccessible. Then nine comments were not reflected in the blog. Just…

As we continue to resist attempts by the Arroyo government to curtail our freedom of expression, we should also extend a hand to those who…

Alitaptap and Florry wrote in my “Vacation” entry about the “patadyong”. Alitaptap said: “The last woman I saw wearing a patadyong was my mother-in-law. (Yes..…

Edwin Trompeta, Western Visayas tourism regional director, dubbed Antique’s Binirayan as the mother of all festivals. “There would be no Ati-atihan in Kalibo, Dinagyang in…

I will be covering Binirayan. Afterwards, I’ll be off for a week’s vacation.

(This is the today’s Arab News report on the Saudi chop-chop murders. Take note of the sixth paragraph. The name of Bong Pineda was mentioned.)…