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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,…
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…
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…
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…
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