Year: 2023

Pacquiao peps up Paris Olympics-bound Eumir Marcial

MAKATI CITY – World boxing icon and eight-division world boxing champion Emmanuel “Manny” Pacquiao  personally congratulated Paris Olympic-bound fighter Eumir Felix Marcial for winning a silver medal in the  19th Asian Games in China. In their meeting in Pacquiao’s posh…

Health & Wealth (Art G. Madlaing): Best and lasting gifts this Christmas season

Are you planning to give some gifts to your FRANC (Friends, Relatives, Acquaintances, Neighbors, Co-Workers) this Christmas?   As a book author, columnist and an active Evangelist, I highly recommend four books as the best and lasting gifts you can…

Generation Exile (Cristina Osmena): San Francisco visitors enter the Twilight Zone

Imagine if you will what modern people now call the multi-verse. A city at the tip of a peninsula surrounded by whipping cold ocean waters and two bridges and views close to paradise that was once riddled with the zombie-covered…

Upside (Cherie Q. Moreno): A letter to President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.

Dear President Marcos Jr., I can’t believe you are actually here, in my backyard, where I chose to start over some four decades ago.  What drove me away from the land of my birth to endure the ache of homesickness,…

Duterte critic ex-Sen. De Lima out on bail, prays in Manaoag, goes home to Iriga City

By Jeanne Michael Penaranda IRIGA CITY, Camarines Sur — Following her release on bail from the PNP Detention Center in Camp Crame, former senator Leila de Lima prayed at the Minor Basilica in Manaoag and flew to her home in Iriga…

Overseas Filipinos’ 9-month remittances hit $27.74 B; US, Saudi, Japan top senders

MANILA – Personal remittances from overseas Filipinos have remained among the top dollar earners for the country as they brought home US$27.74 billion in remittances for the first nine months of the year, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) reported. Overseas…

EX-GENERALS IN PLOT TO UNSEAT MARCOS? AFP chief dissuades soldiers, then denies destabilization plan

By ALFRED GABOT, Editor in Chief  and BETING L. DOLOR, Manila Editor   CAMP AGUINALDO, Quezon City – Armed Forces of the Philippines chief of staff Gen. Romeo Brawner Jr. has exposed an alleged plot by retired generals and military officers…

Ethnic hate intensify in spillover of ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict

By Jun Nucum   SAN FRANCISCO – The ongoing bloody conflict between Israel and Hamas militants has caused and is still causing horrible troubling and unknowable ramifications and is even being felt strongly even in campuses and places of protests…

APEC SAN FRANCISCO: Forget Boring, Exclusive APEC Meetings. Here’s Where the Fun Parties Will Be in San Francisco

By Han Li SAN FRANCISCO – Starting this weekend, San Francisco will be all about APEC for a week. The international gathering, formally known as the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, is expected to bring 30,000 travelers into the city and grab…

APEC SAN FRANCISCO: Biden, China’s Xi to meet next week

SAN FRANCISCO – China is ready to strengthen dialogue with the United States “at all levels” to mend their relations and work together on global challenges, Chinese Vice-President Han Zheng said on Wednesday. Han was speaking just a few days before…