BRIDGES: Isabel
SAMMY JULIAN
SHE writes stories of passion; of passionate lives.
The characters she creates with broad strokes from her literary pen live with passionate commitment â...
PEOPLE POWWOW: We are now a hundred million
By HERBERT VEGO
THE last time I talked to Iloilo provincial population officer Ramon Yee, he estimated that Philippine population had already hit 100 million....
WORMâS EYE VIEW: âGlendaâ
BY ROMMEL YNION
P-NOY, blundering throughout his four-year-old presidency, seemed to have blundered again yesterday. Why? He forgot to issue a hold departure order to...
BRIDGES: Chinaâs âisland-buildingâ strategy
SAMMY JULIAN
(Continued from July 17, 2014 issue)
âOTHER regional states probably cannot come close to matching the raw scale of Beijingâs ambitious construction, yet they...
BRIDGES: Chinaâs âisland-buildingâ strategy
SAMMY JULIAN
ALTHOUGH Beijingâs precise plan remains speculative, the international community should seriously consider the short- and medium-term implications of Chinaâs large-scale âisland buildingâ in...
FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY: Urban farming
IKE SEĂERES
FOOD security is not a problem for the rich people because they would always have the money to buy food, assuming that there...
VIEWPOINTS: Asylum
ABP. OSCAR CRUZ
THE benefit of âAsylum,â supposedly asked from the Catholic Bishopsâ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) by a now well-known woman for the...
WORM’S EYE VIEW: Mobocracy
BY ROMMEL YNION
WE should have seen it coming but, apparently, our âinstitutionalâ memory has not been responsive to current events that we have somehow...
BRIDGES: Overseas voter registrationÂ
BY SAMMY JULIAN
FOR the first time in the 11-year electoral history of Philippine overseas voting, overseas voter registration (OVR) has breached the one million...
RURAL UPDATE: Attract more investors: No tax increase please
BY JOHNNY NOVERA
IN our column last week titled, âThe ranking of our citiesâ, Iloilo was on 19th place in terms of income as against other Philippine cities in 2013, according to...