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The secret is out. We almost did not have a National Artist in Resil Mojares. Yesterday’s conferment honoring a first from Cebu, which made all Cebuanos mighty proud, would have been for naught. You see, for over…
It’s amazing how very little has changed even as Cebu moves forward into the thick of the 21st century. Consider this observation: “Newspapermen are very fond of describing Cebu as the Queen City. Right-thinking Cebuanos view this…
Before I proceed with the main part of this space, let me invite the public to the Philippine-Spanish Friendship Day Conference 2018 which will happen tomorrow, the Spanish National Day, at Buttenbruch Hall of the University of…
For a country supposedly on the grip of authoritarian, one-party communist rule, Vietnam continues to defy the stereotype. Its openness to the world and its pursuit of the market economy (some would call this patent capitalist revisionism)…
I’ve always been fascinated with ancient shipwrecks, sad and tragic events that have nonetheless enriched our knowledge of traders, trade routes, ports and the kinds of objects that were traded in island Southeast Asia (SEA). In the…
“The World Needs Copper” is the title I decided on for the last exhibit that one finds at the Carmen Copper Heritage Center, which was inaugurated yesterday by the top management of Carmen Copper Corp. (CCC). For…
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has given notice to the current owners of a large American colonial-era warehouse that a portion of it will be destroyed to give way to a road widening. I…
Finally, the eyesore that has become of the Cebu International Convention Center will hopefully be a thing of the past. This is my hope which I think others who have been to this historic edifice will agree…
Pillboxes in Toledo and Liloan, tunnels in Buhisan, memorial markers at the old Southern Islands Hospital. These are just some of the little things that World War II veterans on both sides of the conflict used to…
Yesterday was a poignant moment for some of the more than three thousand Japanese citizens living in Cebu, at least for those who went to Marco Polo Cebu Hotel. Beside its tennis courts is a life-size bronze…
Let me thank the Datu Lap-Lapu Chapter of the United Architects of the Philippines (UAP) for bravely taking the cudgels in opposing the 20-storey monstrosity of a building that Gov. Hilario Davide III wishes to cap his…
Atlas Consolidated Mining and Development Corp. (ACMDC) turned 65 last month quietly and with no fuss. This once proud owner of Toledo Copper Mine, the largest in Asia in the 1970s, has actually spun off a subsidiary,…
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