The country’s richest man
There are a few things Manuel “Manny” B. Villar will say with certainty, at least when it comes to politics.
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Revenge flu
Inside a hospital’s emergency room recently, kids and teenagers were desperately weak, weary and sick; one was experiencing uncontrollable shivering, pale as a ghost; another was wailing out his discomfort. ER doctors and nurses weren’t frantic but you could tell they weren’t at ease about the situation either.
Agriculture
After more than a year and after several other names cropped up in the business grapevine, at last we finally have an agriculture secretary.
Rody Duterte prefers the ‘lower house’
With the Duterte family supposedly under attack by foes in politics, will Rody, the patriarch and ex-president, return to the halls of power as a senator or congressman?
Dateline: Port Area
You never know what you’ll see or hear in the labyrinthine Bronx-like district of Port Area in Manila. Rumor has it that thieves and thugs abound on any given day and they’re always on the lookout for their next prey. Cries for help of hapless victims are drowned out by the cacophony of sounds – from the loud cries of sometimes shirtless barkers; to booming horns of 16-wheeler trucks that make the roads vibrate when they pass; to speeding motorcycles which ply the streets with their uninterrupted honking, much like the unbeatable Road Runner’s never ending “beep-beep.”
Farewell and salute, Conrado de Quiros
It was a small work area – enough to fit the writer and his desk and chair but it was in this room in their family’s quaint and humble abode in Quezon City where Conrado de Quiros or CdQ wielded his sharp sword and penned some of the bravest columns in the history of Philippine opinion writing.
Infrastructure
Driving in Metro Manila, especially during rush hour, is not for the faint of heart or the mentally unstable, and especially not for gun-toting motorists who may easily blow their top over the slightest inconvenience.
Save Dumaguete
If you’ve been to Dumaguete even just once, you will understand why the gentle people – as the people of this place are called – are against any reclamation plan in this city on Negros Island.