It can probably be said, with some measure of authority, that the one active NBA player who could be considered the face of the major pro basketball league as a whole right here and now, is none other than LeBron James, currently of the Los Angeles Lakers. In addition to his back-to-back 2012-13 NBA titles…
For the better part of 2018, vacationers in the Philippines and tourists from overseas have had to do without the crowning jewel of all resort locations in the country: Boracay Island. For six months the resort destination was made over as crews cleaned up litter and algae in the water, dismantled some excessive business and…
If there is any prominent tangible reminder of the time when the Philippines and the United States, longtime allies for most of the 20th Century and beyond, had once been deadly hostile to one another, it would be the church bells of Balangiga, Samar. In 1901 they were rung in their parish church to signal…
In California the most likely natural disasters to visit would be an earthquake or wildfires. This time of the year in particular is often the prime period when they break out. When they do, devastation of homes and communities, not to mention injury and loss of life, would surely follow. CNN reports that the two…
Ever since Republican Party candidate Donald Trump was elected President of the United States back in 2016, that country and the rest of the world has been not quite the same. And over the next two years the situation has been the same and seemingly getting worse simultaneously. Trump has enjoyed some successes in backpedaling…
The time has come for the country to brace itself as another typhoon from the Pacific bears down on the Philippines. After forming due east of Guam and the Northern Marianas two Sundays ago, the weather depression formed into a storm and given the name Yutu, reaching Category 5 super typhoon status around the middle…
The saying goes, “Good things come to those who wait.” That wait, where tourists and vacationers itching to visit – or revisit –the white sandy beaches of Boracay Island are concerned, is finally come to an end. Six months the resort island had been barred to the outside world by government orders, in order to…
