PH2030 is a dud. In Tagalog it means mintis, in Espanol Pidgin: pallado. For Pinoy New Year’s Eve revellers it’s a fizzled whistle bomb. Very likely by 2030 in the Philippines 24/7 it is still happy days for the sons of guns (sanamagans coined by the late Max Soliven). That is if the realist reader has read PH 2030 to the 3rd of this series. I told my realists friends the essays on PH2030 are fiction based on truth learned from 17… Read More »
MANILA How do the children of government officials suspected or convicted of stealing the people’s money feel about their accused parent(s)? Often children of public officials on the dock for corruption sit behind their accused parent during court hearings or at congressional inquiries to show support and solidarity for their elder. But how do they really feel? Are… Read More »
Hello attorney Wong! Can a Filipina woman who has dual citizenship and married to an American own more than 5,000 sqm. of urban land and more than 3 hectares of rural land? Also can the children own more than the said areas ? Since the first child was born before the woman got American citizenship and the… Read More »
It was featured on television several days ago that children in school are being taught how to handle money. Grade five kids made presentations on such grown-up topics as “Which is better for you- buy a house or rent an apartment?” or “What to buy or not to buy when you are in the mall.” I thought this… Read More »
THE United States escalated in the past week its rhetoric over the rapid reclamation being undertaken by China on Mischief Reef (Panganiban Reef) and a few other reefs and shoals in the South China Sea, with US President Barack Obama capping the new word offensive by expressing concern over the Chinese’ bullying tactics. “Where we get concerned with… Read More »
This May, it’s confirmed that Marian Rivera is three months pregnant. A jubilant Dingdong admits to writer-pals that that he expects a baby boy, so with Marian. But pleads people, including those around them for understanding. “There are details in Marian’s pregnancy that we want to keep private as possible. Just pray for her safety, Nahihirapan siya sa… Read More »
So it’s true that Piolo Pascual is on good terms anew with ex-girlfriend KC Concepcion and her mom Sharon Cuneta. His reported misunderstanding with KC erupted right after their break up years back. Then Piolo’s fans had an altercation with Sharon that reportedly spearheaded the feud between Sharon and Piolo. Well, just recently Piolo and KC were spotted… Read More »
MANILA Sen. Bongbong Marcos makes the ludicrous claim that if his father Ferdinand hadn’t been deposed in 1986, we would now be another Singapore, prosperous and orderly. Many of us sneered at the young Marcos’ chutzpah, knowing that that possibility had long been made impossible by events. There was no way that turning the Philippines into another Singapore… Read More »
CHICAGO (JGL) – China’s aggressive reclamation of some of the choicest islands and islets in the Philippine Western Sea (South China Sea) that are within the territory of the Philippines will test the Mutual Defense Treaty of 1951 between the United States and the Philippines if it has a teeth or if it is a mere scrap of… Read More »
The satisfaction rating of President Aquino continued its free fall this week, hitting its lowest since he became president in 2010. And guess who is being blamed again? The media, of course. I’m not a bit surprised that Communications Secretary Sonny Coloma is blaming the media for the latest slide in his boss’ rating. After all, he is… Read More »