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Also hit hard in the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) resulting from the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic are cultural workers and artists, many of them independent or self-sustaining. In the field of private museums where I…
I just came back from a return visit to a little-known small fort or stockade inside Catmondaan Elementary School. And I’d like to use this remnant of a once-intact defensive structure of the Spanish period to…
No other word but ‘Excelsior!’, a favorite of the recently-departed Stan Lee, best encapsulates my wish for Cebu Daily News as it moves permanently into cyberspace and away from the printed word. I am but following the…
The persistence of a hoax as idiotic as “Sri Vishaya” confounds me even in this ultra-modern age. And I would like to spend this final print of my column on this issue. Of the Indonesian trading kingdom…
I am happy to report that an important step in saving at least the front section of the Patria de Cebu was accomplished when Archbishop Jose S. Palma met with members of the Archdiocesan Commission for the…
Before I proceed with the main part of this column, I’d like to thank the University of the Philippines Cebu Alumni Association headed by its president Rhia Lydia Espina, a fellow student activist in our younger years,…
As if the heavens are beckoning me (and I am not very religious), I suddenly felt the urge to check out the 1950s newspapers at the USC Cebuano Studies Center last week in my long-winded project of…
On the way back from almost a week in Hiroshima, I had to go to the Hong Kong Maritime Museum. It was there in 2014 that a very important seminar was conducted jointly by the museum and…
Hiroshima, Japan — The image of the Japanese male as the quintessential samurai warrior—brave, loyal, and, on the side, a great lover of women — is being challenged not from outside Japan but from within. The term…
The latest round in the continuing saga behind the plan to build a monstrous 20-storey building just a few meters behind the venerable old heritage asset, thevebu Capitol Building, happened just as I was delivering a speech…
One of the most common causes of traffic and traffic jams … is the practice of drivers of public utility vehicles in stopping right in the middle of the road and even at the intersection of busy…
When a Cebuano or a Boholano dies, his soul is immediately brought by a god named Maguayen into a world below the ground, an infernal region whether he or she lived a good life or not. That…
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