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I met Frank in the fall of 1986 when my friend Allan, a just-landed Canadian immigrant at the time, and my Canadian business friend and manufacturer, Ergo, traveled with me from Toronto to Kaiping, Guangdong, to talk business.
Frank was a small guy with thick eye glasses, a sharp-pointed jaw and thick black hair. He had [...]

Contrary to general knowledge, the Philippines does have four seasons: Hot, Hotter, Hottest and Wet. This story is about the wet season and, its most salient feature in Manila, the flash flood.
The wet season had officially started. May 31. Summer is over, bring out the rain gear. How did I know? Because our newspaper said [...]