Instead of the start of the rainy season headlined in our newspaper last May 31, it became a season of drought for the Philippines.
The farmers weren’t made happy after all.
A bad situation became worse last week when President GMA started to hint at declaring her need for emergency powers. That touches a collective nerve-ending for [...]
We were introduced to Doctor Yu, then in his 60s, by an old friend of my father.
Old Yu, as he was called by friends and intimates, was not a licensed doctor and never officially practiced medicine. Yu “retired” in his ‘20’s in 1949 and never worked a single day under the Communist regime. When the [...]
1:42 pm on June 15, 1991, the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20C took place a mere 90 kilometers (55 miles) northwest of Manila. When Mt Pinatubo blew her top, almost 800 people were killed and over 100,000 became homeless. The surroundings were inundated by pyroclastic flows, ash deposits, and later, lahars caused by [...]