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I remember my burdensome but enjoyable experience in teaching when I was invited to teach at Cebu Technological University (CTU) and Cebu Normal University (CNU) for their communication students. I always allocated time in the preparation before…
A couple of days ago, China allowed its currency, the yuan, to fall or to devalue against the US dollar beyond the 7 yuan to a dollar mark from around 6.9 weeks before. The Yuan reached its…
News of a mother drowning her 11-month-old baby reached me while I was in a learning session with colleagues on responsible media coverage of children. It’s heartbreaking. A child, who is only a month shy of…
The Second Quarter 2019 Social Weather Stations Survey, conducted from June 22-26, 2019, found 51 percent of adult Filipinos with little trust in China, for a net trust rating of -24, classified by SWS as poor. In…
Andres Abellana is today a mere street leading to a section of Guadalupe from the Cebu Capitol. Very few know anything about him beyond this. In his heyday, he was a Capitan Municipal of San Nicolas (and…
The truism“everybody loves a winner”comes to mind in the intense media attention accorded to the very popular Manila City Mayor Francisco Domagoso better known as Isko Moreno. After trouncing former Manila City Mayor Alfredo Lim and…
Cebu finally did it: combat online sexual exploitation of children (OSEC) with technology. OSEC is an issue that strikes a personal chord in me because I knew children who are victims of it. I was a…
Now that our newly elected local government executives in the country have already assumed their respective offices as provincial governors, city mayors, and municipal mayors, it is interesting to see how they think of projects that they…
At the start of the new millennium, the ratio of college-to-high school students was 0.45 or 45 college students per 100 high school students. Based on this ratio the potential demand for college education in the municipality…
The saga of our Filipino fishermen again resurfaced after a Philippine fishing boat, F/B GEM-VER, partially sank near Recto Bank midnight of June 9, which involved a Chinese vessel. Several versions later were aired, from the initial statement…
Five days ago, the Department of Finance (DoF) in an economic bulletin reported that regional inequality in the Philippines eased in 2018 compared to 2016 and 2017, citing lower measures of variability in the gross regional domestic…
It has been 12 years since I became part of The Outstanding Students of the Philippines Alumni Community (TOSPAC), a privilege given to me when I made it to the regional search and later in the…
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