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Does anyone have a contingency plan?

By Bobit S. Avila | January 6, 2015 - 12:00am

At the height of the devastating earthquake in Japan some years back, a 100-meter bridge fell down due to the earthquake and stopped the famous Shinkansen (Bullet) Train service from Tokyo to Osaka.

Freeman Opinion

Folly

By FIRST PERSON | By Alex Magno | December 15, 2011 - 12:00am

During moments when our politics becomes incomprehensible, I pull out Barbara Tuchman’s classic The March of Folly from my shelf.

Opinion

Return my call

By Francis J. Kong | September 17, 2011 - 12:00am

The boss was visibly upset as he spoke to his assistant, “Ms. Gomez, you know I have an important meeting this morning, but you were not here.

Business

Looking forward to a better year 2011

By Bobit S. Avila | December 31, 2010 - 12:00am

This is my last column for the Year 2010.

Freeman Opinion

A country that doesn't solve its problems

By Bobit S. Avila | June 17, 2009 - 12:00am

Allow me to share our happiness with our faithful readers on the joyous arrival of our third grandchild Baby Janine Francesca Avila-Tequillo, born to my eldest daughter Dr. Frances Angelique “Fara” Avila-Tequillo...

Freeman Opinion

Fixing ourselves? Ask the right questions!

By Bobit S. Avila | August 2, 2004 - 12:00am

I’ve been out of Cebu for more than two weeks now, flying the other week to Beijing to cover the formal opening of the Philippine Tourism Office with Tourism Secretary Roberto "Obet" Pagdanganan and...

Business

Elections: Greatest folly / And so we muddle on

By HERE'S THE SCORE | By Teodoro C. Benigno | January 12, 2004 - 12:00am

The sign of the times are downright alarming. You sense it. When you see President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and Miriam Defensor-Santiago smooch each other with hoochie-coochie ardor, that’s it. You know a political...

Opinion

FPJ, Lacson, Kabayan, GMA: The final folly?

By HERE'S THE SCORE | By Teodoro C. Benigno | December 31, 2003 - 12:00am

We would have wanted this yearend column to send sparks of optimism, of good tidings to squelch the perception that we are a nation headed for the scrap-heap in the near future. But the news Tuesday was just too...

Opinion

That full-page ad for GMA / Pacheco and Kapatiran

By HERE'S THE SCORE | By Teodoro C. Benigno | August 11, 2003 - 12:00am

It was a full-page ad that leaped at your eyes. It was an exhortation ad, a billow-or-bust ad that mirrored the upheaval now shaking the Philippines, that called on the Filipino people "to rally behind the President...

Opinion

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