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In 1967, five countries, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines, founded an organization called the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean). This was in the wake of the American involvement in the war in Vietnam…
The redesigns for the old jeepney being proposed by certain foreign-owned car companies commissioned by the government gives the Philippine “King of the Road” a really modern makeover. They feature more streamlined designs; so expect to see…
A simple note scribbled by Albert Einstein on a hotel stationery and given to a bellboy in lieu of a tip at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo in 1922 has recently been sold at an Israeli auction…
While hanging out with fellow writers in a café and talking about a certain controversy that was feasted upon by local radio commentators who took it as yet another opportunity to show off their “hard-hitting” ranting, a…
To old timers who have been following the art scene in Cebu, Adeste Deguilmo may come as an artist who painted contemporary everyday life according the seemingly unchanging style of the ancient masters, like Michaelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, Eugene Delacroix or our…
I was stuck in a traffic jam recently that, according to the report on the car radio, was caused by a big motorcade of a fraternity. The newscaster said that the frat members rode on motorcycles without…
It was sometime during the first weeks of the war in Marawi when I talked about it with my cousin, who had spent some time in the Islamic city as part of his tour of duty when…
Without God,” Fyodor Dostoevsky once said, “everything is possible.” This is not just a reversal of the truism that with God everything is possible. Dostoevsky, a former radical and atheist who later converted to Christianity, was actually…
I woke up to the sound of rain suddenly pounding on the roof, booming thunder and blasts of lightning that caused a short brownout. I grabbed the rechargeable flashlight from the headboard and went out to check…
Just when we thought that we Filipinos have already gotten numbed at even the recent surge of killings as part of the stepped-up Oplan Double Barrel, the second phase of the government’s bloody war on drugs, many…
Faced with the threat of a full-scale military invasion during the postwar years, Chairman Mao Zedong referred to the American imperialism as a “paper tiger,” a bogus superpower that the Chinese communists could easily defeat in their…
For those of us who do not belong to the West, the paradox with nationalism is that it is a foreign idea. It was during the 18th and 19th century in Europe when the idea of a…
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