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WHEN Muhammad Ali knocked the gum shield out of Joe Frazier’s mouth in the middle of “Thrilla in Manila”, I...

A TALE of two Presidents. One in barong tagalog, the other in T-shirt, checks or plaids. One in Malacañang, the...

WATCHING Rodrigo Duterte preside over a midnight press conference in Davao City, I didn’t expect I could stay awake and...

ENJOY the “moderate-to-heavy” traffic while you may. It’s only a matter of days before school opens – welcome to Apocarlypse!

DID the five persons who collapsed during a 12-hour outdoor concert last week die “by misadventure”? It was not likely...

WHEN Cecile Licad lets down her hair – when she’s wearing jeans, a loose Indian shirt and sandals, for example,...

BELIEVE it or not, the Korean telenovela has been with us for 11 years. ABS-CBN started the fad in 2005...

MEDIA’s invention of “presumptive president” as applied to you-know-who – no wonder he insists on being addressed as Mayor –...

WHILE the eyes and ears of media are focused on the next President’s ability to quickly fill up some 18,000...

HERE comes Sen. Koko Pimentel, who’s only the head of incoming President Duterte’s political party, threatening to “put behind bars”...

"SHE walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies”... And, “Whenas in silks my goes/...

WHO’D have thought that the way to soften the image of Davao City’s “punisher” was to turn him into the...

‘Tis the morning after. Let’s all take our pills, downers or uppers, let go of anger, frustration, gloating triumphs, and...

ET out the vote” says more than “go out and vote” in a massive exercise that’s meant to shape the...

TAKE it from Senator Cynthia Villar, who helped her husband Manny run a presidential campaign in 2010 that many voters...

So the surveys show a big chunk of the population haven’t made up their minds about their choice for president....