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THE TURNING POINT

Finally, President Rodrigo Roa Duterte gets himself vaccinated.  The 76-year-old chief executive got the jab on Monday, May 3, with a dose of the now legendary Sinopharm vaccine.  That is good news for two reasons. […]

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RAMON ANG’S BIG DREAMS

Three bouts with COVID convinced RSA about two things: One, life can be short and death can be sudden; you cannot bring wealth to your grave, “not even your wrist watch,” he smiles. Two, a […]

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MANEUVERS

At the stroke of midnight Monday, April 19, in the last seven minutes of a 97-minute cabinet meeting-cum-television show, President Rodrigo Roa Duterte discussed something close to his heart and now, fearsome to his five-year-old […]

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THE DEADLIEST PRESIDENCY

By the end of this year, more than 150,000 Filipinos would have died from COVID-19.   They come from two generations of great Filipinos–those born from 1930 to 1960 and those born from 1961 to […]

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FROM ONE DISASTER TO ANOTHER

In March 2020, President Duterte declared what became the world’s longest and severest lockdown this century.   The idea was to contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus which has caused the world’s deadliest pandemic in […]