Salamat Noynoy: Remembering his bullet-riddled legacy
It was 1987 when Cory’s administration faced a military coup (one of 6 plots to overthrow her) in which Noynoy Aquino was hit 5 times by attacking rogue soldiers at …
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German Engineering, Japanese Precision and Filipino Pride
Some racially-oriented collocations you may have stumbled across would include German engineering and Japanese precision. It gets amusing though when you see those words lined up with our very own …
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Should La Salle student Johnrey Apellido apologize for insulting “VP” Leni Robredo?
Democracy is what Filipinos signed up for. Facebook (FB) and every other social media platform give every citizen the avenue to express themselves publicly with nationwide reach. The fact that …
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Ninoy was Dead Wrong: The Filipino is NOT worth dying for
Did the fake hero utter a lie when he said: The Filipino is worth dying for ? Let’s do a little thought experiment: Recall that Filipina who was on death …
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Vietnam’s VinFast zooms past Philippine home-grown car brands
Like my recent GRP piece on Charice’s “Self-destruct Mode” which got as far as the Tonight with Boy Abunda show, this article is another lamentation. This time it’s over the …
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Battle of the Heroes: NAIA name change vs. Ferdinand Marcos Day
Whether you refer to heroes here as with or without the quotation marks, “heroes” in the Philippines appear to be defined by how well you can get history to side …
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FREE: the National Word of the Philippines
How many words are there in existence? Webster’s Third New International Dictionary (2005) contains more than 476,000 vocabulary entries. And each word opens an entirely new world in itself. Take …
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Bonifacio Boots Out Aguinaldo in the Battle for 5-Peso Coin Supremacy
Philippine Peso bills and coins and their evolution (if not devolution) through the years are an interesting subject as they silently tell our nation’s revolution-filled story each time a new …
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