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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 16:30:25 +0000

  UNLIKE the human body, well-run corporations grow stronger with age. Three corporations marking a total of 239 years. 38,800 employees. One evening to celebrate RCBC (the young­est, at 60 years), Malayan Insurance (90), and EEI (89). When Chairperson Helen Yuchengco Dee turned 75 last year, friends real­ized she had 75 companies under her stewardship, […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 16:00:16 +0000

  WASH your hands. Wash your hands frequently. Wash your hands for 20 seconds, as long as singing Happy Birthday two times. To fight COVID-19 we will need lots of water. Here comes summer. Here comes the drought after a long rainless spell. The water level of Angat dam has been going down steadily. Manila […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2020 16:00:09 +0000

  FLY not to escape the 2019 coro­navirus, but fly on the wings of domestic tourism. DoT Secretary Berna Puyat finds hope in local tours making up for the slack in in-bound tourism. Ms. Puyat has senior-itas and se­nior-itos to bank on to boost the revenues of airlines, hotels, restau­rants, department stores. As retir­ees enjoying […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 16:30:31 +0000

  TO the followers and believers mourning the sudden, unexpected passing of the healing priest, Fr. Fernando Suarez, as he was playing tennis last Tuesday with other priests in Alabang, the news could not have come at a worse time. He was only three days away from his 52nd birthday, and think how many more […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 16:14:41 +0000

  INTRIGUING. After reporter Roy Mabasa wrote that “three members of the Davao City-based Kingdom of Jesus Christ . . . were arrested by agents of the Fed­eral Bureau of Investigation in differ­ent locations in the US as part of an ongoing probe on human trafficking and fund-raising scam,” I could not wait to see […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 16:00:35 +0000

  WORD of the day: Lockdown. As applied to Taal, Wuhan, and more places around the world. “Lockdown” does not appear in my old and battered dictionary, though the book is of millennial vintage. Thanks to frequent usage, no one who can put together vow­els and consonants need consult a dictionary to know what a […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 16:15:10 +0000

  FILIPINOS are among the most fashionably dressed in Asia, whether you include or exclude those crazy rich Asians (who are mostly Chinese anyway, and they live in Singapore, if Kevin Kwan is to be believed). A long time ago, as I recall the memory of the one and only Ernest Santiago, women of the […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 16:15:22 +0000

    THINGS will never be the same. To the people of Taal in particular, of Batangas in general. Convert­ing square kilometers of ash and dust into green grass and glens will take more than money, time, smarts. The world has become an evacuation center, a prison without walls, only partitions. To my friend Joya […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 16:00:09 +0000

  FROM a distance of about three meters, the thermal scanner captured the above-normal tem­perature of arriving passenger Jean (not her real name) from Manila, Jan. 18. Jean was imme­diately asked to step aside, away from her PAL flight mates. They’re not taking chances at Hong Kong airport. Not with the new strain of coronavirus […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 16:30:59 +0000

  AND a Happy Lunar New Year to you, too! It’s hard to imagine how much we’re going through and how much more we will need to endure as the 12-year cycle of the Chinese zodiac moves in. Tomorrow night would have been a time of revelry, being the eve of the Year of the […]