By TONY LOPEZ Former President Rodrigo Roa Duterte spent almost ten hours seated before the Senate Blue Ribbon sub-committee hearing on the “Philippine war” on illegal drugs, Monday, Oct. 28, 2024. The title alone of [...]
By TONY LOPEZ Former President Rodrigo Roa Duterte spent almost ten hours seated before the Senate Blue Ribbon sub-committee hearing on the “Philippine war” on illegal drugs, Monday, Oct. 28, 2024. The title alone of […]
By TONY LOPEZ Disclosure: The D does not stand for deranged or demented, but rather to the first letter of one of the most awesome political brands locally. During a rambling long-promised two-hour press conference […]
By Tony Lopez In Congress’s hallowed halls, Friday evening, Oct. 11, 2024, at half past 8, retired police Lieut. Col. Royina Garma had a metanoia. A changing of her mind, a breakdown, an epiphany. She […]
August 31, 2024Comments Off on KAMALA D. HARRIS VS. DONALD J. TRUMP
THE ELECTION THAT WILL CHANGE THE WORLD By Tony Lopez The outcome of the Nov. 5, 2024 American presidential election will surely change the world. For better. Or for worse. The world will be a […]
May 4, 2024Comments Off on BATTLE OF THE BEST AND BIGGEST
SMC and SM fuel the Philippines’ robust economic growth The Philippines’ two largest conglomerates are powering the country’s robust economic growth this year and in the coming years. Both having demonstrated unprecedented expansion in the […]
November 2, 2024Comments Off on 10 Young Adult Fiction Books By Filipino Americans
By Audrey Cabaltica GET THE BOOK: https://amzn.to/48BB0qHEverything We Never HadBy Randy Ribay Four generations of male Filipino immigrants deal with their identity, masculinity, and paternal relationship. GET THE BOOK: https://amzn.to/4dJhgTcThe Vanishing StationBy Ana EllicksonHardcover, 364 […]
October 19, 2024Comments Off on 6 Children’s Picture Books by Filipino American Authors
Books by Asians have tripled in the US since 2016. Before 2020, it was rare to see any children’s book about a Filipino or any book written by a Filipino. From 2021, US publishers began […]
October 19, 2024Comments Off on Damned If You Do – A novel that reads like a movie
Damned If You DoAlex BrownHardcover, 364 pages, 2023.Page Street PublishingGET THE BOOK: https://amzn.to/4f3NJVa I picked the book Damned If You Do by Alex Brown from the Teen shelf because the red cover design caught my […]
August 10, 2024Comments Off on US Cities with a Soda Tax show lower BMI in youth and obese
A new study found that four California cities that adopted a soda tax saw a significant decrease in Body Mass Index (BMI). BMI is used by doctors to measure the amount of body fat. The […]
August 3, 2024Comments Off on Number of Black and Asian authors tripled from 2016
2024 books by Black and Asian authors Book publishing has always been white. But the last five years showed a dramatic surge of books whose creators, characters, or topics were people of color. In a […]
January 27, 2024Comments Off on I was the victim of theft at Jack Ng’s Joy-Nostalg
Joy-Nostalg owner Jack Ng and Bernd Schneider of Accor . This Christmas we prepaid 13 nights for a studio and one-bedroom at Joy Nostalg in Ortigas because they gave us a lower quote than nearby […]
September 18, 2021Comments Off on Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corp. President Huang Tzu Yen testifies, explains why the company sold medical supplies at very high prices