Dr. Maria Victoria “Vicki” Gonzales Belo ex Henares soon-to-be Kho drags herself into the spacious living room of her Ramon...
Because she was a Miss International title-holder (crowned in Osaka, Japan in 1970), Aurora Pijuan is unimpeachable when she tweets about the beauty pageant, like she did at the height of the hoopla at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 1 (NAIA1) on the afternoon of November 15, 2011.
“Inauspicious” is the word that believers in feng shui associate with the number 4. In Chinese, the word for “four” sounds like the Chinese term for death and can therefore carry a curse.
TEN days after Renato Corona earned his place in Philippine history as the first Chief Justice to be removed from office, Rex Robles was still gushing over the luminous performance of the presiding officer at the impeachment trial, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile.
It's become a national security truism: One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. This is the prevailing dichotomy that makes fugitives and revolutionaries invisible to the police, said Sen. Gregorio Honasan, a famous fugitive from 1987 to the early 1990s. This also explains why, he continued, it took the United States 10 years to track down Osama bin Laden, and why seven months into the manhunt, the 80-man tracker teams from the Philippine National Police (PNP) have yet to bag retired Major General Jovito Palparan.
His provenance nurtured his politics that spanned six decades of the nation’s historic past. Saturnino Cunanan Ocampo was born to a family of landless tenants in Pampanga in Central Luzon, the cradle of agrarian unrest, a background that predisposed him to a life of political dissent.
If you’re offered a Cory Aquino painting, beware. Two years ago, a painting in watercolor, supposedly by the late former President, was offered to Heritage Art Gallery.
Don’t tell Madame Imelda Marcos, but there’s a family secret that Senators Grace Poe and Ferdinand “Bongbong Marcos, Jr. would rather keep from her, though half the country must have heard about it.
