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Peacetime complacency made Filipinos forget the importance of preparedness for any emergency or disaster even as the nation remains prone to typhoons, earthquakes and other calamities. Ensuring that government continues to function amid a major disaster is…
One of the things that struck me during a visit to Davao City a few years ago was a live interview with then Mayor Rodrigo Duterte on a late afternoon local TV news program. There was nothing…
Football fans are usually a rowdy crowd that don’t care leaving behind a pile of mess at a stadium after a game. So we were all surprised and awed seeing that video of the Japanese audience during…
Not that we are turning a blind eye on them but today we take a much needed breather from all the somber and shameful issues and talk about something more uplifting. Let’s talk about art, which has…
The alleged involvement of another cop in the latest killing incident in Cebu, this time the ambush in Carcar of another member of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), makes the public increasingly suspect that this series…
As if taking cue from the President’s promise to keep the drug war “relentless and chilling,” the spate of killings purportedly aimed at drug personalities have dramatically increased here in Cebu. While in most cases, the assassins…
The fourth of July found me attending a dinner party at the house of an American friend who is married to a Cebuana. The party, however, was not meant to celebrate the Independence Day of the United…
After President Rodrigo Duterte drew public outrage over his recent comment about what he perceived to be the “stupidity” of God, he immediately tried to justify it by saying that he was merely “shaking the tree” to…
Inside the huge glass cage, it looks like some monstrous creature’s spine with some of its ribs missing. That’s what struck me when I recently saw what remains of the wooden balangay, the precolonial native boat found…
The difficulty of booking for appointments for passport renewal in Cebu recently forced us to look for other regional offices of the Department of Foreign Affairs that still offer vacant slots. We chose Butuan because it was…
The world took a deep sigh of relief last Tuesday as United States president Donald Trump and Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) dictator Kim Jong-un finally shook hands during their summit in Singapore and signed a…
As you probably noticed, your beloved CDN is going through a makeover these past few days, and that includes the opinion page, which is getting more compact, with columns just a tad less verbose, and flashing new…
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