Friday, October 21, 2022

WHAT IS 'BANGUNGOT'?

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  By Ba Ipe THE middleman named by the alleged gunman of Percy Lapid was said to have died of “bangungot” in the afternoon of Oct. 18 (or Oc...
Thursday, October 13, 2022

MIDDLE CLASS VALUES

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By Philip M. Lustre Jr. WHEN I was a sociology major in the mid-1970s, one of our teachers, a young UP graduate and batchmate of Randy David...
Thursday, February 17, 2022

ECONOMIC RECOVERY REMAINS DISTANT BECAUSE OF LACK OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT

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By Ba Ipe  “MOBILITY is not a human need. It is a basic right.” Nikki Coseteng, a former senator and street parliamentarian, uttered these w...
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

THEY DON'T WRITE, DO THEY?

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 By Ba Ipe FAMOUS American broadcast journalists like Walter Cronkite, David Brinkley, Tom Brokaw, Barbara Walters, Dan Rather, and a host o...
Tuesday, January 25, 2022

SARA DUTERTE'S IGNORANCE

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 BY BA IPE SARA Duterte's proposal to require mandatory military service for every Filipino citizen of training age is laudable but not ...
Monday, January 24, 2022

PUBLIC TRANSPORT POLICY UNDER QUESTION

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By Philip M. Lustre Jr. DURING the pre-pandemic days, it was normal for a passenger to pay less than P500 for a ride from Quezon City to the...
Friday, December 17, 2021

BBM ENGAGES IN ‘DEEP FAKE’ TO WIN IN 2022

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 By Ba Ipe IT is no coincidence that 95% of the photographs, news and feature articles, and other texts that were checked and declared “fake...