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It would have been an ominous anagram had it not been for a missing letter. The letters P, O and E that spell Poe, perhaps the most significant in Grace Poe’s name, have the same as HOPE, save for one that is usually silent, anyway. As anagrams go, it does not require brains to rearrange P, O and E into …

Parents often gloss over some children’s preferences or even think it idiosyncratic, especially in my time. Take mine. As a child, I searched for shadows. Like an elf, I ducked under bushes where my playmates would thrust out their faces and breasts to the sun. Under trees at high noon, when the crown of an acacia tree from across our …

In what appears to be a stinging rebuke to daang matuwid, Commissioner John Phillip Sevilla left the Bureau of Customs, decrying political pressure and linking it to sinister efforts to raise campaign funds for next year’s presidential elections.

By Jerry Maglunog Many are ecstatic about the 8,000-plus Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi), as they believe it is one of the indications that the Philippine economy is really growing.

Mass-housing developer 8990 Holdings Inc. has signed up the Walter Mart Group to operate malls in two of its mixed-used development projects in Metro Manila, 8990 Holdings Chief Executive Officer Januario Jesus Atencio said.

By Riza Lozada Cebuana Lhuillier has opened its first office in the Middle East, located at the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC), to provide remittances service to the Philippines as well as a liaison office for its partners in the region.

By Jerry Maglunog With the closure of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ (BSP) special deposit account (SDA), banks are now scrambling to have alternatives where to put their money.

Kenny Bayless, who handled seven bouts of Filipino ring icon Manny Pacquiao, has been picked as third man on the ring for much-awaited fight between Pacquiao and undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr. on May 2 (May 3 in Manila).

By Alvin I. Dacanay Taklub (Trap), the latest film of celebrated actress Nora Aunor that is helmed by her equally acclaimed Thy Womb director Brillante Ma. Mendoza, will have its world premiere at the 68th Cannes International Film Festival next month, it was announced late last week.

By Alvin I. Dacanay On April 30, many aspiring and established creative writers will rush to submit their entries to the most prestigious and longest-running literary competition in the country today: the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, which will celebrate its 65th year. That day is doubly significant for writers, for it also marks the end of the country’s …