IN modern China, the number eight (8) is associated with wealth. It is considered the luckiest of numbers. Eight is believed to invite great wealth and fortune. So when the…
Posts published in October 2020
THE city government is coming up with a new mechanism not to slow down the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, but to eliminate it. In her daily program over Davao…
TWENTY-ONE former rebels in Davao Del Sur received started a three-month holistic transformation activity on October 28, in Barangay Kinuskusan, Bansalan, in Davao Del Sur. The program is under the…
SOLDIERS belonging to the 701st Infantry Brigade and members of the police braved the bad weather in delivering basic services to residents of Sitio Bitanagan, Brgy. Old Macopa in Manay,…
(An excerpt from my still-to-be published book I WALKED WITH PRESIDENTS) In 2009, after Congress created the Mindanao Development Authority (MINDA) (after being Press Secretary and my short stint as…
COUNCILOR Pilar C. Braga has recognized the Davao City Water District (DCWD) for providing better service to its customers in the city. In a privilege speech on October 13 at…
THE Social Security System (SSS) is set to credit the first batch of November 2020 pension today, October 30, 2020, through its new disbursement method using the Philippine Electronic Fund…
PHILPOP, the country’s premier songwriting competition, returns with an eclectic set of new releases from the finalists of the Visayas cluster. The sophomore batch takes regional pride to unprecedented heights…
The Securities and Exchange Commission-Davao Extension Office (SEC-DEO) has warned lending and financing companies not to process personal data in debt transactions. The warning came about after the extension office…
IT’S been a very challenging year for the music industry in general, but not for Filipina rapper Alex Bruce, who continues to enjoy commercial and critical plaudits—thanks to her slickly…