CHICAGO, Illinois (JGLi) – Voting is one of most visible faces of democracy. But this is also one of the civil rights that is most overlooked and most people take for granted. In a democracy, it is a given that if you vote, you can be voted upon. But in reality, a voter cannot just run for any… Read More »
Who’s Henry Sy? Is he rich and successful? If so, why talk about him? Why not just relish on the successes of Donald Trump of The Apprentice or Warren Buffet, the Oracle of Nebraska? Henry Sy has inspired millions of people from the Philippines and around the globe because of how he built his business empire; how he… Read More »
He was in tears when he first surfaced in the Philippines’ national consciousness. It was 2 a.m. of Feb. 7, 2008 when Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada Jr. appeared in a hastily called press conference at the De La Salle Greenhills to reveal that he had been kidnapped at the airport upon his arrival from Hongkong by police officials, and… Read More »
There is no greater story in the annals of World War II than the courage and human endurance that is Corregidor.. a little island at the mouth of Manila Bay . Dubbed as the “Gibraltar of the East “referring to that European bastion near Spain, impregnable to a point, it was the Filipinos and Americans’ last stand on… Read More »
…and how to protect yourself from the sun’s damaging heat… Global warming is slowly being felt. As of this time, it is still tolerable, and yet when people start feeling the real and deadly effects of the sun’s power, that time may already be irreversible. AVV409 Summertime is for outdoor fun. It is the best time everybody looks… Read More »
Hindi na ako makikisali sa maraming nakapagbigay na ng kanilang comments sa diumano ay may kagaspangang pagtrato ng mga Pulis Quezon City sa insidente ng pagkamatay ni Mrs. Trinidad Arteche- Etong. Ito na kasi ang subject ng kadaming istorya sa dyaryo, radio and tv, mga umpukan, inuman, at simpleng tsismisan ng marami nating kababayan dito sa lupang sinilangan.… Read More »
I am an avid viewer of NCIS, the popular series on CBS about naval crime investigators. Although Gibbs and company are sticklers for the integrity of crime scenes, I have yet to see them haul away husbands or relatives from dying victims’ deathbed for jeopardizing or contaminating the crime scene. They do suspect ill motive for wiping bloods… Read More »
Up to now, it is still a puzzle as to who came first the usurer or the borrower. It is probably as puzzling as determining who came first the egg or the chicken. In the barrio during the yesteryears, there was such a userer or “loan shark”. A widow of about fifty with no children, Aling Goreng was… Read More »
Taller and heavier than most of his friends of his age in the quiet barrio, Turing grew up with his younger brother Atoy under the care of their grandparents. No one in the barrio seemed to know the parents of these two boys and their grandparents refused to talk about them. Some said that the parents of the… Read More »
That controversial Hong Kong journalist Chip Tsao who called the Philippines as a “nation of servants “ must be suffering from “historical Alzheimer”. Did he forget that the word “Amah” originated from his country of origin which means, a servant or a nanny ? Today, Filipinos all over the world serving as caregivers or nannies have given the… Read More »