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THIEVES, RELATIVES IN A NARCO-STATE
President Rodrigo Duterte was fuming mad in his 50-minute late night press conference the other night (August 21), at the presidential palace. He announced the firing of the current Bureau of Customs chief, former military […]
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Agenda for prosperity
BBM to fulfill needs, aspirations of Filipinos By President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. (Message on the Proposed National Budget for Fiscal Year 2025, July 29, 2024) Honorable Speaker of the House of Representatives; Honorable President […]
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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 […]
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Gold, genes and golds
By TONY LOPEZ Did you know that the Philippine government budgeted only P52 million to prepare, train, and send our athletes to the Paris Olympics? For that money, the Philippines so far has won two […]
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“Last Supper” mocked
By TONY LOPEZ On July 28, the Paris Olympics organizers apologized to Christian and Catholic groups over a parody of Leonardo Da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” that was part of the four-hour made-for-TV opening ceremony […]
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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 […]
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Floods, money, banking and credit
By Tony Lopez In July 1972, Manila Bay and Lingayen Gulf had a date in Central Luzon. It became what a British author described as northern Luzon’s “most serious floods recorded or remembered by man…775 […]
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PH’s four major problems
Philippine food prices are the highest in 100 years. In first quarter 2024, if you bought rice at the farm, you paid the farmer P24.82 per kilo, the highest in recent recorded history, and a […]
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The assassination attempt on Donald Trump
By TONY LOPEZ Donald J. Trump, bleeding profusely on his upper right ear, blood criss-crossing his reddened face, yet the former president looking defiant, his right fist pumped into the air as he hollers “Fight! […]
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