Month: June 2025

Disease prevention looks uncertain under new health department stand on vaccines

Outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases, such as measles and whooping cough have been reported at numerous US states while new protocols have been established for the development and distribution of the Covid-19 vaccine leading to far fewer people having access to preventive tool.

TRUCE AVERTS FULL-BLOWN MIDEAST WAR; Pinoys in US, Israel, Iran, Gulf states told to be alert

Over 2 million Filipinos in the Middle East breathed a sigh of relief together with their counterparts in the United States and the Philippines after US President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire in the 12-day Israel-Iran war but have been warned to continue to be alert in case the truce collapse.

Further delays seen as Senate, House bicker over VP Duterte trial

By Beting Laygo Dolor, Editor MANILA  – The Senate and the House of Representatives engaged in an acrimonious exchange last week over the status of the impeachment complaint filed against Vice President Sara Duterte, threatening the already delayed trial to…

THE OUTSIDER (Melandrew T. Velasco): Transport infra projects get boost

Domestic air carriers will have a new home once the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 5 will be put up at the site of the Philippine Village Hotel in the Nayong Pilipino Complex.

UPSIDE: Making friends on group tours

WHY do you always go to the same places, quizzed my cousin Tina Mapa Anglin, who lived all over the world when her recently departed husband Thaddeus James Anglin was Chief Communications and Information Technology Officer with the United Nations.

Offline: Don’t, brother, don’t!

Whenever me and my old friends from high school engage in insane online conversations which happen two to three times a week, crazy proposals often come to the fore. Let’s go on a drunken cruise from Manila to Cebu and…

HEALTH & WEALTH: Phil Robertson’s gospel message, impression on President Trump

As a book author, columnist  and active Evangelist with the GOLDEN GATE CHURCH OF CHRIST in San Francisco, California, I’m  delighted to know that the late Phil  Roberson  was able to share the gospel to Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th President of the United States.

AS I KNOW IT: Can the Aguinaldo condonation doctrine apply to the Paraynos?

The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Region I suspended Urdaneta City Mayor Julio F. Parayno 111 and Vice Mayor Jimmy D. Parayno for administrative misconduct committed during their term before the May 2025 local elections for a total of…

HEART OF HOPE (Dr Philip Chua): Sex among seniors

Senior couples may be in the winter of their lives, but the heat of the summer could still be lingering inside them, many thinking intimacy is no longer possible. Medical facts of today will hopefully change their archaic mindset. Scientifically speaking, relatively healthy seniors (despite their high blood pressure, diabetes, etc.) could still enjoy a satisfying active sex life, albeit not as often. It is a matter of mindset, not age, according to a special health report from Harvard Medical School.

US, Japan, others condemn China Coast Guard’s water cannon attack on PHL vessels

 The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG)  rebuked the China Coast Guard (CCG) for accusing Manila of violating its so-called sovereignty in the South China Sea to justify its water cannoning of two local vessels off Zambales.