In photo, The Philippine Rowing Association during their team building activities in...
Wednesday, 27 May, 2020
Joel Reyes Zobel
By Joel Reyes Zobel Actually, hindi po ito una sa Tagaytay. Ginawa na ito sa Albay ng pumutok ang bulkang Mayon. Ang paniwala nuo ng dating Albay Governor at ngayo’y...
By Joel Reyes Zobel Ang pagbabasa at maintindihan kung ano ang binasa ang ibig sabihin ng reading comprehension. Ang pagiging matatas ang sukatan ng kagalingan ng tao na maintindihan ang...
By Joel Reyes Zobel Tigil putakan sa SEA Games, makatutulong ba sa imahe ng Pilipinas sa mata ng mundo? Pwede, pero superficial effect o mababaw lamang na paraan ito para...
Ipinag-utos na ng Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte ang walang humpay na pagpasok ng imported na bigas sa bansa. Ang kautusan ay inilabas ng Pangulo para maibsan ang problema ng mataas na...
“Huwag mo naman i-discriminate kaming mga Bisaya na kumakain ng mais bilang pan-saing”. Yan naman ang bungad sa akin ni Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol sa aking panayam sa kanya sa...
Huwag ho kayo magkakamali, pero ako ay kakampi ng war on drugs ng Pangulong Duterte. Nakikiisa po tayo sa adhikaing matuldukan ang problema ng iligal na droga sa bansa at...
Perry Diaz
By Perry Diaz Embroiled in controversy, the Safe Philippines project is facing strong opposition in the Philippine Senate due to negative reports about the contractor’s ties with China. Allegations are that...
PerryScope By Perry Diaz China’s quest for world dominion With the recent participation of the Philippines in China’s “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) Initiative last November 2018, one doesn’t fail...
PerryScope By Perry Diaz ‘Whatever Xi wants, Xi gets’ Some call it “debt-trap diplomacy.’’ Some call it “debt-book diplomacy.” But it doesn’t sound diplomatic at all. The key word here is “debt.” And in...
PerryScope By Perry Diaz Is the Philippines the next Djibouti? A tiny impoverished but strategically located country by the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait in the Horn of Africa, Djibouti has become a...
PerryScope By Perry Diaz Colonialism from within When Ferdinand Magellan arrived in the island of Homonhon in Samar on the feast day of Saint Lazarus of Bethany in 1521, he...
PerryScope by Perry Diaz China eyes Palawan Just as the year 2018 was coming to end, several events happened that put into question the future of Philippine-US relations, particularly...
Monsi A. Serrano
By Monsi A. Serrano With the recent prediction of the surge in US$ against Philippine Peso which I mentioned in my previous column, another black eye hits the world and inevitably...
By Monsi A. Serrano For years, I have been conducting various workshops to private, government, and non-government entities apart from my talks whenever I am invited by various educational institutions...
With our 120th Year of Philippine Independence, we can truly claim we are blessed for having courageous forefathers who put their lives and never hesitated to shed bloods in the...
Atty. Josephrally Chavez Jr.
By Atty. Josephrally L. Chavez, Jr. An income or any inflows into the hands of the taxpayer other than a mere return of capital may either be a taxable income,...
By Atty. Josephrally L. Chavez, Jr. Donation in its simplest term is an act of generosity, big-heartedness, or a charity at that. Legally speaking, it is the act of liberality...
Why Wait for the Tax Amnesty? By Atty. Josephrally L. Chavez, Jr. A tax amnesty is a general pardon or intentional overlooking by the State of its authority to impose...
A certificate of stock is a written instrument signed by the proper officer of a corporation stating or acknowledging that the person named in the document is the owner of...
Another thing that is certain, of course, it is tax. While the power to tax is inherent in every state, in our jurisdiction,”to tax or not to tax” is primarily...
Taxes are what we pay for an orderly, refined, advanced, humanized and developed society. Taxes are what we pay for the existence our government. Taxes are what we pay literally...
Butz Bartolome
By Armando O. Bartolome The Philippines is a country with tight-knit family relationship. In fact extended family is evident. There may be four generations living under one roof. Living...
Manuel Morato
By Manuel L. Morato Last December 26th, the day after Christmas, a news struck me strongly when I heard and saw the news on TV to elevate the building standards...
UNCENSORED By MANUEL L. MORATÓ It won’t harm trying Dr. Abbas Hussain Kazmi of Sheikh Zaid Hospital (city and country not mentioned) stressed that hot coconut water or buko juice...
UNCENSORED By MANUEL L. MORATÓ In Memoriam Francisco “Bobby” Manosa passed away last Wednesday, February 20th, from a lingering illness at the age of 88 years old. I’ve known Bobby...
UNCENSORED By MANUEL L. MORATÓ Attention: National Bookstore I’d like to call the attention of the National Bookstore management why it takes them years to report and pay for books...
UNCENSORED By MANUEL L. MORATÓ My apologies For the tragedy we have had in the demolition of our ancestral home, a home my father and mother built in the 1950s which...
UNCENSORED By MANUEL L. MORATÓ Another blasphemous movie? Last week in my column last Saturday where I made mention of a blasphemous movie “The Last Temptation of Christ;” and how...
Robert Roque
By Robert B. Roque, Jr. We should look to our neighbor Indonesia in admiration after it protected its territorial waters successfully from Chinese intrusion. It is a feat that our...
By Robert B. Roque, Jr. The year 2020 is the "Year of the White Metal Rat" based on the Chinese Zodiac. Although we Filipinos welcome each year on January 1,...
By Robert B. Roque, Jr. House Speaker Alan Cayetano has had enough as he dared Senators Panfilo “Ping” Lacson and Franklin Drilon to take a lie-detector test with him. The...
Ekstradisyon Isang paraan para mapanagot ang mga Tsino na sumalpok at nagpalubog sa bangka ng 22 mangingisdang Pinoy sa Recto (Reed) Bank sa West Philippine Sea ay ang ekstradisyon. Ito...
Assistance Each of the 22 Filipino crew members of a fishing boat that was rammed by a Chinese fishing vessel near Recto Bank last week would receive a fiberglass boat...
