We drove into the ordinary rural village and were met by what at first glance looked like a very ordinary man.
Under a searing sun, he stood there on the dry gritty earth calmly waiting, wearing the typical navy blue pants and once-white cotton shirt, in effect the national uniform in those early [...]
You’d think I’d have something more substantive to talk about than weather… again. But when it poops on the biggest party going, it’s impossible to stay mute.
In our office, the party is simply referred to as CNY – Chinese New Year.
For the few that don’t know, CNY is based on the lunar calendar and [...]
These days you can rarely traverse the length of a town block without seeing a person walking with a cell phone plastered to his or her ear. Everyone in China – from CEO to driver – is busy. On the phone.
Face-to-face meetings are blithely interrupted when a cell phone rings, with not the slightest trace [...]
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 [...]