by Ludovic EHRET The caviar on the menu of Michelin-starred restaurants may come from an unexpected place: China. The country has endured embarrassing…
We’ve never seen the SM Mall of Asia (MOA) Arena that full last Sunday—an estimated 20,000 people in a party mood for an unusual occasion: National Teachers’ Month, as President Benigno Aquino III had declared, which started Sept. 5 and culminated on Oct. 5.
It wasn’t at all stuck up. At least to us, that was the atmosphere at the Malacañan Ceremonial Hall during the traditional Vin d’ Honneur last Friday. It was a welcome change from the stereotypical, stiff Malacañan Ceremonial Hall functions we’d covered in the previous decade.
Somehow I got the feeling that this year’s Sona cocktails at the Batasan were different. Held after the President’s State of the Nation Address last Monday, it had the same sumptuous, finger-licking fare, by Millie Reyes’ The Plaza, as last year’s, and I presume, the same exclusive list of invitees, from diplomats and top government officials, to legislators and their spouses.
Bayan Muna Partly-list representatives Teddy Casiño and Neri Colmenares on Monday wore personalized barongs to call for the inclusion of their respective advocacies during President Benigno Aquino III's third State of the Nation Address.