THE OUTSIDER: A wake-up call for Cebu
The heartbreaking images coming out of Cebu following Typhoon Tino tug deeply at the national soul. Just 45 days after a 7.2 earthquake rattled the island, another calamity struck—this time not from beneath the ground, but from above. Torrential rains…
All set for Pangasinan Day celebration, Mrs. Pangasinan Coronation and Ball on Nov. 8
By Art G. Madlaing FOSTER CITY – All is in readiness for the United Pangasinanes of America, Inc (UPAI)’s Pangasinan Day & Mrs. Pangasinan Coronation and Ball on Saturday, November 8, 2025 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 1221 Chess Drive, Foster…
Rally held to pressure Philippine Embassy to file diplomatic protest for seafarers
By Cesar Antonio Nucum Jr. WASHINGTON D.C. – Seafarers deported from across the U.S. together with the rest of Filipino community members convened at the Philippine embassy in DC to echo the calls from the International Seafarers Action Center (ISAC) and…
HEART OF HOPE (Dr Philip Chua): Super sex libido
Women on high doses of testosterone get back their sex drive, and then some. Many of them describe themselves to be “resurrected and on fire,” with new, extremely enhanced libido, craving for sex every day or more often, where in the past…
AS I SEE IT: UCHS Batch ’65 Diamond Jubilee Reunion Yearbook 2025 off the press
As planned, the UCHS Batch ’65 Diamond Jubilee 2025 Yearbook (134 pages) came out today, according to Atty. Mario P. Bravo, co-chair of the Diamond Book ’65 Yearbook Committee High school reunion. The Yearbook was delivered to Urdaneta City by…
PH back as ‘sick man of Asia’ under Marcos Jr.
By Beting Laygo Dolor, Editor MANILA – If the country’s stock market is any indication, the Philippines has regained its title as the “sick man of Asia.” And while President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. may not be entirely to blame –…
UPSIDE: Exercise in freedom
BARCELONA – It’s three hours before we board the first leg of our flight home from the exact same tour of España we took 17 years ago when our legs were stronger and our hair darker. Spain is quite a…
Iglesia ni Cristo sets 3-day protest rally at Rizal Park; NCRPO to go on full alert
MANILA – The influential Iglesia ni Cristo has scheduled a three-day protest action at the Quirino Grandstand in Rizal Park on Nov. 17 to 19, expected to be attended by some 300,000 members and followers. Police forces in Metro Manila…
HEALTH & WEALTH: Signing and notarization of durable financial power of attorney
Last week, Linda of San Francisco, California called Mobile Signing Services(MSS) and requested assistance and help for the signing, notarization and apostille of Durable Financial Power of Attorney urgently needed here in California and in the Philippines for her elderly…























