We do not need to be told. We open our eyes in the morning at six o’ clock and it is still dark it is not even six in the evening and the sun has set. We feel winter coming in the brisk icy wind that seeps into our bones and makes the leaves fall in multicolours of… Read More »
Apparitions of non-Divine spirits cause so much fear to anyone for the reason of lack of understanding about the spirits of those who died ahead or what we commonly know as ghost. AVV1012 It is almost Halloween. From Eastern culture to Western belief it is widely accepted that during this time, the gate of hell, heaven, the undead,… Read More »
The circus is in town. The game is on. Let the games begin. However you see it, the circus or game called Philippine election is back with all its hoopla and hullabaloo. That the elections would be just another game of the entrenched politicians was evident on the first day of filing for the certificates of candidacy. Chairman… Read More »
MANILA The seasonal madness that engulfs the Philippines is upon us again, its election time once more. Unfortunately, the list of candidates isn’t inspiring. Actually it’s depressing. On the first week of October, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) here opened its doors to would-be candidates, filing their certificates of candidacy for the positions of senators, congressmen, governors, mayors,… Read More »
Q. Hello Atty. Wong. I had consulted you before through your column Batas Pinoy Corner of which I’m so much satisfied with your answers. I would like again to have your views about our Inherited properties as follows : 1. Our parents are both now in their second life and they left us a parcel of land with… Read More »
HELLO, TORONTO! First, Comm. Kim Henares of the Bureau of Internal Revenue expressed her feelings of betrayal over a favoured Senate version by Sen. Ralph Recto of the Sin Tax Bill. If approved, the Recto version would greatly reduce the projected government income through sin tax from 60 to 15 billion pesos (Php 60billion down to Php 15billion).… Read More »
It was September 40 years ago when President Marcos cracked down on one of the freest press in the world with the declaration of martial law through Proclamation 1081. For 14 years since, we journalists at that time had to live through censorship in the first few years when military censors actually watched over the newsroom, and self-censorship… Read More »
Sa lahat yata ng iba’t ibang kultura sa mundo hindi maiiwasan meron itong mga bahaging salungat o puedeng ituring naghahatakan o nagbabakbakan. Dahil seguro dala ng panahon, ng hindi maiiwasang pagbabago habang lumilipas ang mga buwan at taon. Ang tao at kapaligiran ay binabago ng panahon. Sa ganitong pagbabago ang kultura lang ang pangmatagalan, hindi nababaklas kundi nadagdagan… Read More »
Philippine press was once one of the freeest – if not the freeest – press in the world. Not anymore. Today, freedom of the press, as we once knew it, is a relic of the past. Members of the Fourth Estate would defend their freedom like they would defend their own lives. Indeed, 72 journalists have been killed… Read More »
Incitatus was a horse. Not an ordinary horse. Aside that he belonged to Caligula, or Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, the Emperor of Rome from 37 AD to 41 AD, he also was appointed to the Roman senate. Caligula known for his eccentricities treated his horse in many extraordinary ways. It was said that the horse’s stable was… Read More »