Speaking Out

  IT is ironic that the F/B Gem Ver was rammed by a Chinese vessel on June 9, the 44th...

  LAST week, as we paused to celebrate our Independence, I tried to recall how National Day or Independence Day...

  THIS year’s valedictorian at the Ateneo de Manila University is Reycel Hyacenth Bendana – daughter of a hard-working jeepney...

  EVERY time I visit our ancestral home in Barangay Alabang, Muntinlupa City, I can not help but notice a...

  UNDER the People’s Small Scale Mining Act of 1991, the Bangko Sentral is supposed to buy the gold produce...

  BANK of the Philippine Is­lands (BPI), the oldest bank in the Philippines, continues its tradition of notching many “firsts”...

  THE voice of the people is the voice of God. So the saying goes. Today, it is time once...

  WE live in rapidly changing times, thanks to the tech­nological wonders of internet and social media. As fast as...

  DURING the long holiday, I had the very pleasant opportunity to re-connect with my former staff in Congress. Ron...

  SEVEN years ago, preschooler Cheska Parabolis was a very quiet and shy child. She did not know how to...

  READING various comments both in traditional and social media on the current water shortage, I could not but feel...

    IT is very sad that when the oc­casion requires it, we cannot sing our national anthem properly. Here...

  AT 24, Muntinlupa City is one of the youngest cities in the Philippines. But it has already become one...

    FOLLOWING tradition, the Ateneo Law Alumni Association, Inc. (ALAAI) the other week “hanged” three sitting Supreme Court Associate...

  SEVENTY-FOUR years ago to the day (Feb. 11), the battle to re-take Manila from Japanese hands (Feb. 3 to...

  ON the fourth anniversary of the Mamasapano Massacre which resulted in the death of 44 police­men belonging to the...